"But you're not." Cupping Ares' chin in his palm, Jamie tilted the Greek's head up. Being forgotten was the same as being dead and while being alive, possessing knowledge of all past lives, mistakes and every single one of his deaths wasn't the most pleasant of existences, it still beat not existing at all in the New God's book.
"And if you shift the focus away from all that you don't have and can no longer do, doesn't it make you feel liberated?" The way National Security saw it, Ares' memory loss wasn't such a bad thing.