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05-05-2020, 05:42 PM
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Hester peered at the boy, same as he had her, and realized for the first time that her beliefs could very well not be reflected in this land. "I should hope not," she said with amusement. She tilted her head and pawed lightly at the ground. "The Mother," she said carefully, slowly, considering where to start because there was simply so much.
"The Mother," she began again, with more surety in her voice, "is the creator of our realm. She blessed us with the air that we breathe and the herbs that our healers use. The water that cleanses our pelts and the trees that give shade in the harsh sun. She is the reason why there is a sky to gaze into, and her sons -- Leviticus, who brings the sunrise, and Leviathon, who brings the sunset -- are the reasons we have warmth to bathe in and moonlight by which to hunt."
Was that a good enough explanation? It seemed, to Hester, to explain all that surrounded them in its entirety. The Mother was the reason nature was fruitful and there wasn't, in her mind, a better way to explain it. She nodded to the sky, to the stars twinkling above. "The All Father is her mate; they've been separated for a long, long time. Longer than anyone knows. So he adorns her world with the creatures and beasts, a compliment to her creations and a gift for the distance they cannot cross." It sounded almost romantic, Hester decided, these ideals that she believed in. "And for every soul the Mother loses, the All Father adorns her night sky with another star to light our way."
She walks. "She speaks." She thinks.
Hester peered at the boy, same as he had her, and realized for the first time that her beliefs could very well not be reflected in this land. "I should hope not," she said with amusement. She tilted her head and pawed lightly at the ground. "The Mother," she said carefully, slowly, considering where to start because there was simply so much.
"The Mother," she began again, with more surety in her voice, "is the creator of our realm. She blessed us with the air that we breathe and the herbs that our healers use. The water that cleanses our pelts and the trees that give shade in the harsh sun. She is the reason why there is a sky to gaze into, and her sons -- Leviticus, who brings the sunrise, and Leviathon, who brings the sunset -- are the reasons we have warmth to bathe in and moonlight by which to hunt."
Was that a good enough explanation? It seemed, to Hester, to explain all that surrounded them in its entirety. The Mother was the reason nature was fruitful and there wasn't, in her mind, a better way to explain it. She nodded to the sky, to the stars twinkling above. "The All Father is her mate; they've been separated for a long, long time. Longer than anyone knows. So he adorns her world with the creatures and beasts, a compliment to her creations and a gift for the distance they cannot cross." It sounded almost romantic, Hester decided, these ideals that she believed in. "And for every soul the Mother loses, the All Father adorns her night sky with another star to light our way."
She walks. "She speaks." She thinks.
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