Thanks...I don't usually write drabbles, but a thought came up to me last night and when I started writing I realized all I had was twenty or thirty words (maybe the first couple of sentences). So I lengthened it a little.

In case anyone isn't aware, Illyria is playing Civilization. "Deity" is the second-highest difficulty level, in the third edition anyway (the highest is "Sid", after the game's creator).