[And this, really, is what confuses him. If Set did not kill his brother, and he knows he didn't, why would he be so determined to have his nephew kill him? Even as a god, Thanatos could easily acknowledge that gods could be terribly perplexing sometimes.]

I think that Horus is perhaps not such a child as you might think.

[Thanatos does not know Horus and he has promised not to speak of this conversation to anyone, but perhaps he will go out of his way to seek out the young god and get the measure of him in his own way.]

Do you really want him to kill you? Do you think that Osiris would want you to be killed to support a lie?