But a smile ticks at the corner of Astrid’s mouth, brightening at this particular description. She’s aware she sounds like a song caught on repeat, always drifting back to the same motif over and over, she just can’t shake that godsdamned way she still has a foot stuck in her homeland; the prospect of explaining it to a rifter, though, makes it feel a little more useful. This is educational. Right?
“We are all that, yeah, mostly,” she says with a puff of pride. And then adding, grudging but not very tactful, “Northerners have a problem with the bit about the spirit communion. They’re scared shitless of their local spirits unless they’re using them for healing, which is hypocritical as all get-out, if you ask me. But we accept that they’re all a part of our life, our society, our landscape. They can offer wisdom.”
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But a smile ticks at the corner of Astrid’s mouth, brightening at this particular description. She’s aware she sounds like a song caught on repeat, always drifting back to the same motif over and over, she just can’t shake that godsdamned way she still has a foot stuck in her homeland; the prospect of explaining it to a rifter, though, makes it feel a little more useful. This is educational. Right?
“We are all that, yeah, mostly,” she says with a puff of pride. And then adding, grudging but not very tactful, “Northerners have a problem with the bit about the spirit communion. They’re scared shitless of their local spirits unless they’re using them for healing, which is hypocritical as all get-out, if you ask me. But we accept that they’re all a part of our life, our society, our landscape. They can offer wisdom.”