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[onblackwings]

[ This lady's looking a little different, for anyone that's spoken with her before. Not any older, but there's a sort of crooked quality to her nose, like it'd been broken and healed some time ago. She's lounging in the Initiative apartments, looking like she's recently made friends with a superiority complex. ]

I want to speak to those of you who have seen a war before. Not the skirmishes that the Initiative sends us on here, but actual war.

And failing that, I'll take anyone that knows magic — and can teach it. That part is important. Don't waste my time if all you can do is cast it.

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[freewoman]

No. They've none who understand. We pray to'em or make our words at these trees. Man and wife and the like. Crows make their oaths to'em as well.

[onblackwings]

[ just. shakin her head. weird humans, man. ]

They seem useless. Ornamental, at best.

[freewoman]

They're gods. What do they care of for the likes of us?

[onblackwings]

Ours do. There are stories of them even involving themselves.

[freewoman]

Don't need no one tellin' me what t'do. Gods already mislike layin' with your kin, kinslayin', and slavery. I abide by that just fine.

[onblackwings]

[ sounding amused: ] If the Dark Queen had any objection to kinslaying, she wouldn't be very pleased with me at all. I think I'll take my god over yours.

[freewoman]

Our gods have no names.

[onblackwings]

Nor voices, nor bodies. Your gods don't sound like much at all.

[freewoman]

Didn't know gods needed those things t'do as they liked.

[onblackwings]

I think we've already established that you don't know much about gods, if that's all you have to learn from.

[freewoman]

Don't need t'learn anything. I've mine, and that's all I need.

[onblackwings]

Do you feel any pride in bringing them glory?

[freewoman]

I know what I've done was for my people, their people.

[onblackwings]

You make it sound like we're talking about two different things.

[freewoman]

Perhaps what you believe of as a god is different. Mine have no faces, not like them southern gods. They have no names nor priests. They are far older though.

[onblackwings]

I don't mean two different things in terms of gods. You're making it sound like there wasn't any glory at all.

[freewoman]

I didn't say that.

[onblackwings]

Then you have a strange way of discussing glory.

[freewoman]

I speak o' what I know.