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[silk_for_calde]

They say in Trivigaunte, the women fight like guardsmen...

This is a new curse for me. It's... awkward. A little embarrassing, though certainly far from the worst this City has to offer.

I was not afflicted the other day, when a great many of us were offered a glimpse of a life that might have been, had the whorl treated us differently; I'm almost sorry. Who would I have become, if I'd gone into politics as my mother wished, if Scylla hadn't chosen me to be an augur? What would have happened if the Outsider had not prepared me for the purchase of my manteion?

If I'd been a daughter instead of a son, would I have become a sibyl for Patera Pike? And who would have come to aid the old augur-- or would the Chapter have let Sun Street fall into disrepair, abandoned like the building on Music Street, to become a home for ghosts and devils?

Curious questions, and ones with no answers.

Comments

[silk_for_calde]

In a sense, yes. I could not have decided to become an augur if I were not intended to, no more than I could decide not to be one, having been so intended.

[sleepyseer.livejournal.com]

I see.




...thank you.

[silk_for_calde]

Are there augurs, where you came from? Of a different sort, even?

[sleepyseer.livejournal.com]

Where I am from, magic of any sort carries a penalty of death.

[silk_for_calde]

I assume, in your whorl, it exists in a more.. tangible form?

[sleepyseer.livejournal.com]

What do you mean?

[silk_for_calde]

Human magic? Something not wielded by the gods, but not mere trickery?

[sleepyseer.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[silk_for_calde]

I can understand how it might be seen as a threat.

[sleepyseer.livejournal.com]

Of course.

[silk_for_calde]

Why do you ask?

[sleepyseer.livejournal.com]

Simple curiousity.

[silk_for_calde]

Very well, my daughter.

Are you new to the City?

[sleepyseer.livejournal.com]

I'm not your daughter.

And yes, I've been here little less than a week.

[silk_for_calde]

I meant no disrespect. We're taught to refer to all biochemical persons as our children, and speaking of my vocation tends to bring the habit back.

I see. Are you settling in well?

[sleepyseer.livejournal.com]

Reasonably. This is a strange place, but somehow much freer than home.

sob, sorry, i'm a backdatey h0r lately. orz

[silk_for_calde]

It has its... advantages, yes. For many, freedom is among them.

[Private]

May I ask a delicate question? You have my word that the answer is under the seal of Pas; that is, I am bound not to tell it. Are you a-- magician, of some sort?

[1/idk] does that make me a backdatey john?

[sleepyseer.livejournal.com]

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[sleepyseer.livejournal.com]

3/4

[sleepyseer.livejournal.com]

4/4

[sleepyseer.livejournal.com]

[Private]

What? No! What in the world would give you such a ridiculous idea?

Yeah it probably does >D

[silk_for_calde]

[Private]

The manner in which you've asked about magic suggest you've some personal store in the answer.

how much backdating does a twenty get me?

[sleepyseer.livejournal.com]

[Private]

Don't be ridiculous. I was just curious.

idk evidently i do a lot of h0ring? it's been. um. kinda a shit week. |D

[silk_for_calde]

[Private]

I meant no disrespect.

...If you remain curious, there are others here who may know more than I. And certainly the Library has texts on-- well, any matter you can dream of, and many you can't. I have been reading about divination extensively, but I've seen mentions of what might be termed magic as well.

*hugs* <3

[sleepyseer.livejournal.com]

[Private]

Divination...that's the art of seeing into the future, is it not?