"Thank you, and I will share that with her, but 'Abandoned' still seems... wrong. It seems wrong to punish you and all the other magic users just because some of them a long time ago got ... uppity. It doesn't seem fair. Not that anything's fair, I know, I know," they said before she could. Everyone always told them that. Life isn't fair. Gods aren't fair. Nothing's fair.
Didn't mean it was okay.
Something should be fair, dammit. Just one thing in the whole of creation.
"I don't think she's going to be very... showy about her magic, but..." They had to think about how to phrase this for their particular company. "I love my parents. I don't want anything bad to happen to them, but they basically kicked me out of the house with nothing, just because I didn't want to do things their way.
"It seems wrong to throw someone out of your house and then still expect them to obey you. Not you you," they clarified before continuing, "If you wanted that, maybe you should have kept them around, or at least have been nice to them." They cleared their throat. "I admit, it was nice that one time I got something even vaguely like an answer at a shrine. But... I'm not sure Freina's gonna bother much with the Old Gods any more. She usually gets angrier about stuff than I do."
Didn't mean it was okay.
Something should be fair, dammit. Just one thing in the whole of creation.
"I don't think she's going to be very... showy about her magic, but..." They had to think about how to phrase this for their particular company. "I love my parents. I don't want anything bad to happen to them, but they basically kicked me out of the house with nothing, just because I didn't want to do things their way.
"It seems wrong to throw someone out of your house and then still expect them to obey you. Not you you," they clarified before continuing, "If you wanted that, maybe you should have kept them around, or at least have been nice to them." They cleared their throat. "I admit, it was nice that one time I got something even vaguely like an answer at a shrine. But... I'm not sure Freina's gonna bother much with the Old Gods any more. She usually gets angrier about stuff than I do."
