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[hasapoint]

Type: Video
Sender ID: hasapoint (Lashan)
To: Public
Subject: waterproofing charms
Warnings: none!

[FIRST: You get a very close shot of Lashan's eye as she squints at her shellphone. We have here that double-doozy of a medieval and an old person and while she's pretty sharp, these devices are not intuitive to her.]

'S it working? The bead's glowing.

[aka 'the light's on'. The video pulls back a bit but like, it's still pretty close and the angle is unflattering. This whole thing feels completely unnatural to her and the lines between her brows are deepened in a frown.]

I'm Sister Lashan. I'm a lay sister, not a nun. I've made some charms for waterproofing. They're not well-tested though. If you help me with that I'll give you one. Want to know their tolerances and if I have to tweak anything before I start selling them. I'm on Elrut.

[yeah this has made her feel ridiculous and stilted. She prods at the phone with a finger.]

...How do I- [she found out how to end message! this was Not guaranteed.]

Comments

[hasapoint]

[Ahhh. This is an Important Person. Lashan's people don't have those, or not the way housefolk and others away from the Plains do. While living among outlanders she'd had to learn their ways in order to deal with nobility and high-ranking clergy. Lashan doesn't change her expression. She's got a serious face, if it's not lit by amusement or affection. That's going to have to do. She doesn't want to alienate people and make enemies without cause, but she's not trying to sell a sword that will keep her Sisters fed for a season, so she won't abase herself or imitate him, like listing off who she's been to who will mean anything.]

Yeah, I'd guess we're from different planes. [Does she have to answer the rhetorical question? Nah, she'll just incline her head.]

The See religion's firmly entrenched just about everywhere in my part of the world. ['Unfortunately', she doesn't say.] Some of its priests are more powerful than many kings. Part of their structure is that girls who can become nuns, and boys who can become monks, are chosen in childhood. Nuns have to get symbolically married to one of their gods. That marks them as distinct, gives them certain privileges and power, but restrictions too. They can't just walk out. Lay sisters and brothers are common people called to serve as adults. Not part of the institution the same way, not as powerful within it, but it's easier to leave.

My Sisterhood's not the See, but it grew from a sect of it. Let's call my emphasis force of habit. [Pun intended, but it's for her sake.] I wasn't born in the grasp of the See, and it has no hold over me.

[yuezun]

The See? A specific entity that is worshiped as a god, an actual god, or a series of beings?

[being something of a god himself, he's curious.]

If you do not worship this 'See', who does your sisterhood serve?