But that's stupid. I don't worship death. And you can't worship something without knowing it. That's just not how it works.
[ Arya's gods sound more like Onni and Lalli's and he makes a mental note to ask more about that, later. For now, though, he is trying to understand the rather complex concepts she's trying to explain.
He... doesn't entirely get it, until she says it makes being scared easier. Then it begins to click that she's not talking about some kind of literal magical transformation, some kind of cultural or spiritual practice he's unaware of. Instead, she's talking about... well, a kind of psychological response to stress, perhaps. Probably there's some fancy word for it and Tuuri would have known it, or Mikkel.
So he stops trying to understand the mystical mechanics of the thing and focuses instead on the fact that... this is something this person's been through. Trying so hard to give up being someone and being no one so they couldn't be terrorized or hurt. ]
Your world must be very frightening, for that to be necessary.
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[ Arya's gods sound more like Onni and Lalli's and he makes a mental note to ask more about that, later. For now, though, he is trying to understand the rather complex concepts she's trying to explain.
He... doesn't entirely get it, until she says it makes being scared easier. Then it begins to click that she's not talking about some kind of literal magical transformation, some kind of cultural or spiritual practice he's unaware of. Instead, she's talking about... well, a kind of psychological response to stress, perhaps. Probably there's some fancy word for it and Tuuri would have known it, or Mikkel.
So he stops trying to understand the mystical mechanics of the thing and focuses instead on the fact that... this is something this person's been through. Trying so hard to give up being someone and being no one so they couldn't be terrorized or hurt. ]
Your world must be very frightening, for that to be necessary.