mygod | audience: ashlyn

[ she's so serious ]

I lasted fifteen years without them... Those were good times...

[ pfft. ]

I lasted one hundred and twenty. But alas, some bothersome fools would not leave me be.

That's so much longer... Are you a hermit?

You could say that, I suppose.

What's that mean?

I like to be alone. I have preferred being alone for most of my life.

I figured out that much. I mean how do you pull it off for so long? I'm looking for tips, here.

Well, you must offend all of your society by ridiculing their faith in famous divine artifacts, thus ostracizing yourself to everyone except your younger brother and your mother.

I don't think that strategy will work for me.

Oh? Being rude seems to work for a lot of those here.

... It's hard.

[ she still does it all the time, it's just an accident. ]

Well, it sounds like solitude and friendlessness just isn't cut out for you. Maybe it's better you have it.

Try friends.

No. I have enough. I don't want any more.

I'm not sure if either of us has a choice in the matter going forward.

[ :nyeh: ]

... So what are those divine artifacts you mentioned?

My people hold several arcane artifacts from an ancient time, uncovered in the ruins below our city. They grant certain people a reincarnation ability. It's an event much of our faith is based upon.

But you don't like that?

I don't... mind it necessarily. My mother has gone through this process many times. However, I feel as if they should be researched instead of simply relied upon by faith alone. There... has to be more to them than just that, more we could learn.

Where they came from, what exactly they were for, what else they do.

... I would be afraid to rely on something for too long without trying to understand it. What if it just stops working?

There you have it.

That's so short-sighted...

It is a paramount thing in the course of our society, and so people are hesitant to question what must be a god-given gift.

Sacrilege and all.

God would want you to ask questions.

[ she decided. ]

You think so? We have many of them.

... Oh. If there are more than one some of them might disagree. It would be weird if they all thought the same thing.

So it would be impossible to make them all happy.

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