#rivervale_lodge

"I... have heard of them, in passing mention. As rusalka, as other lost things... some, as I understand, are reshaped. Dreams merge, nu? Brownies and Hobbits and House-elfs and Boggans..."

"True. I suppose it explains the vareity among the kiths too. Some Eshu more leaning tale spinner than wanderer and vice versa as example"

She nods. "Exactly. I suspect my dream-slf was born somewhere in Russia, but I cannot truly know."

"What is frustrating, is I remember remembering... but the Dreaming is a thief."

"I am not sure I can relate entirely. This is my first and ..likely last life"

A frown.

"A mayfly - and untethered from fate..." She reaches out, touching Siv's forehead.

"Pardon, I didn't mean to make it about me. I do that i fear. I just hey..."

Zara's Omen is...she can't grab anything, not anything of substance. She cannot see anything, why she's as blind as a non sluagh! she hears no chimes of fate's strands. Either her Friend truly has no destiny, or it is so deeply embedded a fate that you would havee to cut her soul open to peek it proper!

"Hidden. But.. in the unknown there is hope, Siv. I see no sign of doom."

"Kind of you to say, but maybe it dosn't show as a Doom because its ssimply what I am? "

She shrugs "No nevermind really. If the Sidhe can stand it, so can I"

"Any life is precious. We never know what we may have."

"Now theree we are, the great unifier, ignorance of grand desisgns. I had a soothsayer tell me once that I did have a great destiny and that that destiny required it to be hidden. I'm not so keen on trusting her, but so be it if so. Drives my folks a bit worried. Not like they can scry me" Amused "I'm a phantom to fate. Maybe I should go around scaring oracles"

She chuckles. "I could see that. You are... remarkably obscured."

"mm remarkably obscured? I like that. Bet i'd make a pretty good courier or something. Folks would have to work to find me not that soothsaying isn't honest work, but hands on i mean"

"Honestly, scrying on total strangers is quite difficult..."

"I suppose it would be. I don't have the art so don't know"

"I am not a master yet, but... it is my most advanced art. So."

"Truly? Hah. I'm afraid i'm a dabbler. Bit of wayfare, bit of legerdemain.. how do you find the discipline?"

She smiles. "It is my favorite. How can you not love something that lets you see? See Da'an, see the hidden, see what lays beyond..."

"You're one of those girls who thinks Pandora was unfairly set up, arent' you? " A grin

"She was! And Prometheus poorly treated..."

"As for Eve..."

"Go ahead. I actually am ah, well, I'm too lazy to be a proper pagan so offending me religion isn't likely to happen" She says "I always thought Eve got an unfair share of the blame mind you"

"Tell me, if she had not yet eaten the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil, how did she know disobedience was evil?"

"AND, God being all-knowing and beyond time, knew that she would eat! He planned on it!"

"Is this a Jewish take on it? or yours? I'm not saying you're wrong. I just don't know. I admit, does smell of set up"

"Mine, mostly."

"And then there's Adam, condemned to toil...yeah that's rough, but hey, he gets Eve as a handmaiden? Surely that's... wel, I guess i'vee been hanging around Uncle Olgar too much, but that's patriarchal crap"

"Well, yes."

"Now, Lilith is fascinating..."

"A bit scary too.. gnostic right? Dad and Uncle Vali both believed a rounded education in various believe systems was good. A lot of trolls go Norse and My name Siv is like Sif so I get a bit ah..focused on that. "

She nods. "Makes sense. Though - one argument I have heard, and I like, is that to gain knowledge, to determine good from evil - it's a necessary step, one to move beyond the innocence of beasts."

"Fair point. Knowledge is both the doom and duty of the young mind. The doom,for it may destroy their innocence, the duty, because aa world view untested is worth little . We are each of us heated and tempered to test our metal...or mettle as it were. "

"Feh, innocence. I want to know..."

A laugh "You're insatiable" A sigh "I want to explore I think"

"I can believe that. I've been deep in the Dreaming, been across the ocean... not enough of either, mind."

"Oh, the oceans in the Dreaming are... so many seas, so many mysteries and wonders there. I remember talking sharks and narwhals, I remember titans rising out of the waves made the largest trolls seem puny"

"Sounds fantastic..."

"Oh more than you can imagine.. Merfolk Empires, and Pirates on great steampunk ships. Islands that hold lost cities high above the clouds"

"I can just imagine the dreams of the sea, concentrated in the Dream..."

"The sea is the source for so much, and the ending ... I thinkd you'd appreciate that"

"Oh, the Dawn Treader, and the Black Pearl and the Pequod!"

"THe Nautilus and Captain Nemo, Hook is out there, and Peter Pan"

A longing sigh.

A smile "maybe if I go out into the Dreaming seas again I'll invite you. We can seek out the isle of Avalon"

Her eyes sparkle. "Yes! Oh, that would be a grand adventure... Morgana, Yvaine, the ancient ladies, the sleeping king..."

"THe Lady of the Lake is out there somewhere"

She nods. "Watery tart, tossing swords..."