mirror of
https://github.com/Koko-boya/Grasscutter_Resources
synced 2024-01-31 23:23:19 +08:00
16 lines
1.2 KiB
Plaintext
16 lines
1.2 KiB
Plaintext
...
|
|
"So, you really are a ghost?"
|
|
"No! I'm not even dead yet!"
|
|
"But you've never been alive either?"
|
|
"Um... Yeah, I guess you could say that..."
|
|
The talkative young girl, who claimed to be a shikigami, gulped down glutinous-rice dango with such speed and intensity that Hamavaran began to worry she might choke.
|
|
|
|
"If I had to explain it, I'd say my situation is more like that of a 'ghost-calling.'"
|
|
"So like I said, a ghost..."
|
|
"Noooo, not that kind of ghost!"
|
|
One argument later, Hamavaran finally understood that what she called "ghost-calling" was something roughly equivalent to what in Sumeru is known as "spirit-warding."
|
|
Both involve signing a pact using one's real name. The notion that you can command someone when you know their real name is common to many of the world's mystic traditions, and it highlights a core fear held by humans: the fear of being under someone else's control.
|
|
|
|
With thoughts thusly wandering, Hamavaran once again began to regret specializing in the much-neglected discipline of marine biology instead of mysticism...
|
|
First I have to sail all the way to Inazuma, then I have to go through the living hell that is a thesis defense...
|
|
But maybe running into this noisy little thing is a stroke of good luck for me... |