Jack of Harts

I’ve read stories hundreds of years old where humanity enslaved more powerful beings by threatening them or those they loved. Gods. Demigods. Mutants. Super heroes. Robots. Aliens. The old “you may be more powerful than one of us, but all of us can kill you dead” threat. We are hardwired to distrust people who are different. It’s what makes us friendly with our neighbors and wary of those people from that town across the river. Those people are different. We were very different.