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Ranara and her little daughter Azabel move to Urtho's Tower when the latter can say six words ("up", "mama", "milk", "no", "now", and "please") and hasn't started to walk yet. Ranara sets up to teach little children to read, ones who don't have evident Gifts yet - Ranara herself has Mindspeech, is all, with about a classroom's worth of range. Azabel sits in on classes, worn on her mother's back or later plopped in a corner with toys or, when she's only four, plopped in a corner with a book, younger than the other kids in the class. When Azabel has in fact sat through her mother's curriculum she is turned somewhat loose, to walk very carefully up and down and around the Tower, exploring.
smol bell in urtho's tower
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small-and-alone
"Mmm."
He sits back, crossing his arms. "Anyway. Do you - have conclusions from this? I'm sort of not sure where to go next."
anticipating_night
"I do not have any very confident conclusions besides that... gods vary..."
small-and-alone
Nod. "I think it leaves me wanting to avoid getting Vkandis' attention, since apparently He sometimes sets people on fire if He doesn't like them. The other gods seem...less scary than They could've been."
anticipating_night
"Yeah. What did the Vkandis worshippers seem to think of the setting people on fire?"
small-and-alone
"- It felt like they weren't quite - taking it seriously as a real thing that'd happened and hurt a real person? Like it was mostly something out of legends and stories to them."
anticipating_night
"I guess, yeah. Honestly I wouldn't even like a fictional character who set people on fire."
small-and-alone
"It seems like a villain character trait, not a hero one! But I guess they didn't see it that way."
small-and-alone
"I think they saw it as Vkandis supporting His worshippers by helping them get rid of bad actors?"
small-and-alone
"Right!" Shrug. "I guess there are lots of people who think murder is fine as long as it's bad people dying - or even just if it's a war and you're killing your enemies - and they probably don't care if I agree with them either."
anticipating_night
"The Bestet lady had been possessed once and she was very glad none of the guys Bestet helped her beat up died!"
small-and-alone
"Hmm. That's - a bit surprising given she's in a temple order that seems to be mostly about fighting? Makes me like her more, though. And it makes Bestet sound less bad than Vkandis, I guess."
anticipating_night
"Yeah, it would have been upsetting if she'd killed them - or wished she had -"
small-and-alone
"I mean, I think it's a pretty - common and normal response? Wanting to kill people who hurt you? I don't feel that way, just, I don't think it makes someone unusually bad as a person. ...But I'm glad she didn't."
anticipating_night
"It might be that she'd have been fine with it except it would have maybe gotten her in trouble with the law, I'm not sure."
small-and-alone
"- Hmm? ...Oh, I was just - thinking that it's pretty reasonable for anyone, not to want to get the attention of the law. But then I guess the legal system here in Tantara is - probably less corrupt and horrible. Than it is in Predain."
anticipating_night
"...I mean, I think so, but it would still be awkward to have killed some people while possessed, that's hard to prove."
small-and-alone
"I wonder if the courts even have any way of addressing it, if someone did something illegal but while they were possessed by a god? It can't happen all that often."
anticipating_night
"They probably don't, it's rare and it's also hard to distinguish from having a psychotic break even if you haul them to a Mindhealer. I suppose Vkandis might favor setting people on fire because it could prevent his followers from being in legal trouble since that's harder for a normal person to do but it's a stretch."
small-and-alone
"It doesn't feel like the sort of thing gods would take into account? - Although I'm not sure why, we don't know much about what They care about and I guess it'd show up in Foresight."
anticipating_night
"It probably would! I wonder... what senses they actually have? Like - Foreseers foresee things but this involves sight. Can gods see. Or, if they can only foresee, does this resolve into images, or... something else."
