Mages trusted to lead, to carry knowledge and wisdom and history, to protect their clans. It was just so very different and Bethany had a hard time imagining it. It sounded lovely, impossibly so. To not have hide, to play a critical and respected role in your community - it just flipped everything she had ever known about being a mage on its head. She'd known nothing but worry ever since she'd come into her magic, nothing but trying to stay under the radar in hopes that her family wouldn't be torn apart.
But for as respected as the Keepers, Firsts, Seconds, and so on were it seemed just as likely for them to be pulled away from their families just like the Templars would do to her if caught. There was something cruel about that no matter how necessary their societies framed it.
"Yes, yes it does. It seems having magic determines our fate no matter how its viewed," she mused. "It defines us in ways that it doesn't others. Others have a choice, and we don't. And we risk losing our families because of it." A somber musing, to be sure, but it was hard not to think of it through that lens.
She shook it off. "Sorry, I didn't mean to... thank you for sharing that with me. It's nice to know there are places where we aren't hated."
But for as respected as the Keepers, Firsts, Seconds, and so on were it seemed just as likely for them to be pulled away from their families just like the Templars would do to her if caught. There was something cruel about that no matter how necessary their societies framed it.
"Yes, yes it does. It seems having magic determines our fate no matter how its viewed," she mused. "It defines us in ways that it doesn't others. Others have a choice, and we don't. And we risk losing our families because of it." A somber musing, to be sure, but it was hard not to think of it through that lens.
She shook it off. "Sorry, I didn't mean to... thank you for sharing that with me. It's nice to know there are places where we aren't hated."
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