"You would live." This is apparent, though the differences between conquest and massacre maybe be few and varied, and a god can so rarely have one without the other. Yet a kingdom without subjects is not a kingdom at all, but a wasteland, and therefore without meaning. Perhaps even a small and new symbiote-thing can understand this.

"You would prefer - not to rule?" This, too, is an alien concept. Some would prefer to follow, this is true, but there is doubt in Illyria's mind (doubt, laughable, something removed from what a god should be, what she no longer is) that this child-thing would acquiesce to even that.