“…oh.” She took a step back and craned her neck to look. “…all of these?” She gestured. It wasn’t his business why. “Is there a best one?”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"A best one?" he asked. "That's highly subjective. To whom are you planning on praying?"
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
Never a straight answer when it came to him. “Haelar.”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
He raised an eyebrow. "Trying to get rid of us, are you? He's a particular one."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
She wrinkled her nose at him. “I never said that.” Not everything’s about you. She had the good sense to keep that comment to herself. “And what do you mean?”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"He has preferences the others don't have." He gestured up at the books. "Killing something won't suffice, nor will food or mead or other such things. To pray to the god of death and dreaming--and have your prayer heard--would require sacrificing something dear to yourself."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
Septimus gave her a long look. "Use your imagination, child. Something you can burn, something you love, anything like that."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
She huffed. “I’m not very materialistic and I was a— wasn’t a noble until a few months ago. I don’t own much that’s actually mine and not just on loan from Gaius or my father.”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"Then you're out of luck." He shrugged. "The simplest of items can be worth paying heed to, but if you have nothing then that is how it is."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
She hesitated, remembering the pendant from Papa. Absolutely not. She subconsciously reached up to touch it. “There’s nothing else? Nothing at all?”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"Unless you go directly to his shrine or think you could carve the right words into a rune bone to burn, no. Prayer takes effort; it's no easy thing."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
“Nothing, I guess,” she said irritably. “I’m not giving him my pendant.”
"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus "From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf "A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni [they/he]
