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Nate nodded at the thought of a map, and hoped there existed someone enterprising enough to make one. Everything here was a little too different for him to really feel confident venturing out, despite his previous boasting. ”I don’t know about anywhere else, but here is real fucking different from home.” He took a sip of tea, eyes wandering around Sams home again. Even here was so different to anything he had known before.A nervous energy began to manifest in him, Nate’s feet tapping and his fingers drumming on the tea cup. Though he had done a remarkable job staying kept together up until this point, he was too quickly coming to a place where he actually had to swallow the bitter pill of reality. He was somewhere alien, somewhere so far away and different that he knew nothing. The train of thought was unwelcome, enough so that Nate pulled out his flask again, filling his tea cup back up to the brim and taking a deep sip.
”I’ve never heard of any of those gods. Back home, there’s just one... I mean, I guess other people have different ones, but I only really know one.” Nate had the basest knowledge of theology, mostly what he could remember from what of Sunday school lessons, but it all seemed so cheap in the face of what Sam was saying. “I could talk to a god right now? Really?” His mind races with possibilities, his nervous energy given a new focus, a life ring in the sea of his troubles.
Sams little addition that he spoke to a god regularly, that he was something other than human gave Nate pause, careful eyes roaming over Sam again, searching for some hint of what he was. When his sense failed him, he turned to words. ”What’s ascended? Sounds fancy, especially if you get to talk to Gods.”
Nate
?aut viam inveniam aut faciam?
