Yes, yes we did. We knew we would come across that difficulty since they were reading one of Nut's diaries memoirs. However, not even Nut knows everything of what's going on.
He's not quite the highest head honcho, but they tread carefully out of respect for the other gods. Things are a bit more complicated than they seem.
Yes, there is a rarer version of Nut where she is Ra's grand daughter instead of vice versa, so we went that route. And I will pass those condolences along.
Ironic that you mentioned a tub. I was confused on which chapter I was replying to for a moment, since we actually just finished writing a tub scene with 3 men in it just the other day!
Yes, actually...there was a god behind everything...hired the other sylph to 'ground' Shael in the right spot because he is meant to be Viktor's mate (though Shael himself was hired by 2 other people)...things wil clear up more later.