"You know your shrines are just...rocks..right?" The words weren't in their minds, but instead buzzed through the air like a pack of staticy-bees. "Some of them have flowers or little candles, sure, and those things are very nice, and I don't mean to brag or anything, but I am an interdimensional being with the ability to speak inside your thoughts, so...yeah. I can be around rocks."
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