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[erbe]

COMMUNION

Reaching out to Rin is like stepping into a moonlit parlor. Everything is quiet, muted, and neatly tucked away. Almost like a "lobby," of sorts to keep visitors away from the rest of what goes on in her head... and her heart. This space is cool, and placid. Much like the surface of a lake in winter as it reflects the pale glow of the celestial bodies hanging above it in the sky.

A reflection of serenity rather the true thing. A mask of elegance to hide anything that may be unsightly. Anything that may betray her.

✧ Specifics

✦ Unable to block out: Harbinger
✦ Compatible with: Iconoclast | Advocate
✦ Discord Accrual: Exalt

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Comments

[gravings]

[ Gray doesn't have much frame of reference for what a normal population of mages is. It felt like she was always going to places where many mages gathered — no doubt a byproduct of her company. So she'll have to take Rin's word for it that two mage families, a priest, and a rogue are a lot for one city. ]

The priest was a mage? ... Isn't that unusual?

[erbe]

Extremely. It made him more dangerous, and an incredible nuisance. My family was close with the Church because they served as "referees" for the Holy Grail Wars. Since the Association and the Church have the same goal of keeping magecraft away from ordinary people, they worked together in that regard.

[gravings]

[ So Rin's family had close ties with the Holy Grail War. One might question whether that meant the Tohsaka family was cheating by getting cozy with the referees, but as Gray knows, any respectable mage would try to do the same. ]

My village had a priest too. He kept an eye on us on the Church's behalf, but he was still a kind person.

[ She doesn't know what possesses her to bring up such a meaningless detail. Nostalgia maybe, and gratitude to that round old priest. ]

[erbe]

Is that right? Well, I suppose not all priests would be similar to my legal guardian. After all he considered himself as a "man of God, not a man of the church".

[Whatever the hell that meant.]

Your priest was probably world's better. I hated the man who raised me.