[ The first comment gets him to laugh, almost cheerful instead of pensive. It’s just inherently funny to him still to have run into so many people without the trappings and understandings of the religions of “his” humanity. To even have to explain them is, well. It’s amusingly blasphemous from him in particular. ]
Well, there are a great many texts that say that my kind are the root of all evil, the progenitor of all of mankind’s sins, the alluring darkness that causes them to stay from their Creator’s light… [ But it’s all said with a touch of dramatics again, and he waves it off with more of a flourish. ] But I assure you, they possess these qualities without our interference.
[ But, joking aside… He simply shrugs as his demeanor slips cooler again. ]
In part, I suppose it depends on what you mean by “here”. But in Horos or Kenos, I have wondered what the answer to that question may be often. It would have been a better deal for either the Regent or Lady Yima to have summoned me. With a Covenant to bind me, I am my master’s loyal slave. Their will is my own, as pursuing their desires is a mutually beneficial agreement. And yet, they gave me my freedom. It is a curious choice when, indeed, I have no world to covet, no people to miss, no investment really at all in what happens one way or the other. Were I not principled, it could be a ruinous choice.
[ He pauses to finish off his glass, and with the same ease and elegance, pours another as he continues his answer. ]
But I am enjoying my freedom. To move freely, to speak as I wish, to pursue my whims without worry. It is a dreadfully mundane answer when there are worlds at stake, I know, but it is an experience so novel and so impossible where I am from that I never considered it to be something to want in the first place.
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Well, there are a great many texts that say that my kind are the root of all evil, the progenitor of all of mankind’s sins, the alluring darkness that causes them to stay from their Creator’s light… [ But it’s all said with a touch of dramatics again, and he waves it off with more of a flourish. ] But I assure you, they possess these qualities without our interference.
[ But, joking aside… He simply shrugs as his demeanor slips cooler again. ]
In part, I suppose it depends on what you mean by “here”. But in Horos or Kenos, I have wondered what the answer to that question may be often. It would have been a better deal for either the Regent or Lady Yima to have summoned me. With a Covenant to bind me, I am my master’s loyal slave. Their will is my own, as pursuing their desires is a mutually beneficial agreement. And yet, they gave me my freedom. It is a curious choice when, indeed, I have no world to covet, no people to miss, no investment really at all in what happens one way or the other. Were I not principled, it could be a ruinous choice.
[ He pauses to finish off his glass, and with the same ease and elegance, pours another as he continues his answer. ]
But I am enjoying my freedom. To move freely, to speak as I wish, to pursue my whims without worry. It is a dreadfully mundane answer when there are worlds at stake, I know, but it is an experience so novel and so impossible where I am from that I never considered it to be something to want in the first place.