He was overconfident”, she told him. “And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they’d have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works.” “You won because you were good” he corrected her. “I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat.
Tamora Pierce (2007). “Squire: Book 3 of the Protector of the Small Quartet”, p.240, Random House Books for Young Readers