"It just sounds...dangerous, to me," he says, though he does her the courtesy of listening with every bit as much attention as he had earlier before rendering this judgment. Of course, if the Avvar worship spirits as gods, the lowlanders' view of them--the Andrastians' view in particular--would seem reductive and narrow-minded. It's not lost on Simon, but still--in his view, spirits are spirits, whatever else people might choose to call them.
Exile though she may be, it's clear that she still takes her would-have-been role with deep, pious seriousness, and he wonders at the fact that she doesn't seem upset to have left it behind. But if the discussion isn't so emotionally fraught, he'll let himself ask the questions on his mind.
"What do the gods ask in return for your worship?" Spirits always want something, don't they?
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Exile though she may be, it's clear that she still takes her would-have-been role with deep, pious seriousness, and he wonders at the fact that she doesn't seem upset to have left it behind. But if the discussion isn't so emotionally fraught, he'll let himself ask the questions on his mind.
"What do the gods ask in return for your worship?" Spirits always want something, don't they?