Cam thought about the pain Nate described. They could take anything for a second, couldn't they? It sounded almost like getting a shot -- just a brief moment of pain and then you got to reap the benefits. Except in this case the shot was ... having all the blood removed from your entire body. Yikes. But the benefits were also pretty high, right? Or were they?
"What does the Voice ... ask for, in return for all of this? Ascending, keeping your fluid topped off ..." They'd already asked similar questions, but still, the topic weighed on their mind. Cameron wasn't sure they wanted to live their life beholden to a goddess. They'd been an atheist, back home, where no one could prove their gods existed -- not just because they didn't believe, though they didn't, but because they found the gods described too disagreeable to follow even if they did exist. Cam wouldn't follow a god just for material benefit -- at least so they told themself.
Cam smiled back at Nate's sympathy, and at the idea that Caido might be a little more welcoming than home. True, the people Cam had met so far seemed at worst confused by them, not hateful. But if they became Ascended. "It's just hard, once you get used to it," Cam joked, on the subject of needing something to be hated for. "You start to miss the attention."
Then back to the real issue at hand. "Something to tide me over would really help, thanks. And, uh, I ... should probably take you up on that offer with the Voice too. Let me know when you're, you know, available."
"What does the Voice ... ask for, in return for all of this? Ascending, keeping your fluid topped off ..." They'd already asked similar questions, but still, the topic weighed on their mind. Cameron wasn't sure they wanted to live their life beholden to a goddess. They'd been an atheist, back home, where no one could prove their gods existed -- not just because they didn't believe, though they didn't, but because they found the gods described too disagreeable to follow even if they did exist. Cam wouldn't follow a god just for material benefit -- at least so they told themself.
Cam smiled back at Nate's sympathy, and at the idea that Caido might be a little more welcoming than home. True, the people Cam had met so far seemed at worst confused by them, not hateful. But if they became Ascended. "It's just hard, once you get used to it," Cam joked, on the subject of needing something to be hated for. "You start to miss the attention."
Then back to the real issue at hand. "Something to tide me over would really help, thanks. And, uh, I ... should probably take you up on that offer with the Voice too. Let me know when you're, you know, available."
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"Cameras" by Ennev is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
