"I'm suggesting nothing. I have witnessed it plenty of times."
Speakers used it to help people, when no one was around and looking. During the Ottoman takeover, it was incredibly useful for food and safe drinking water, but then? Then the west of Europe became terribly afraid of witches and magic, and they were lit on fire just as his mother had. Speakers used the talent less and less. Hid it away and---
--it isn't the first time Sypha's used the word metaphor to understand her people's knowledge. It's both interesting and alarming, that some stories are being understood that way. The alarm is enough to make Alucard gloss over how much of his skin she's exposed.
"How many other stories are understood to be metaphor? I think that's where we should begin."
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Speakers used it to help people, when no one was around and looking. During the Ottoman takeover, it was incredibly useful for food and safe drinking water, but then? Then the west of Europe became terribly afraid of witches and magic, and they were lit on fire just as his mother had. Speakers used the talent less and less. Hid it away and---
--it isn't the first time Sypha's used the word metaphor to understand her people's knowledge. It's both interesting and alarming, that some stories are being understood that way. The alarm is enough to make Alucard gloss over how much of his skin she's exposed.
"How many other stories are understood to be metaphor? I think that's where we should begin."