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'I was surprised as well, though disappointed mostly. He asked for what he might need to do to be worthy of ascension and then...dismissed it once it was laid out before him.' Safrin says nothing of him being an uncle, and though she doesn't quite shake her head no, there is an unmistakable cooling. "I do not offer such things lightly." Safrin replies in a grave tone. "What Deimos has done by declining my gift...it is an act not unlike betrayal."

Smoothing down the lace of her daughter's dress, Safrin leans back slightly so that her smile might find her daughter's gaze. "Stormbreak has always been a city of purity. They do not fear magic, they are simply above it. No one has said magic-users will be shut out and suppressed, merely that they are not allowed within Stormbreak's walls."

Raising a brow and looking slightly surprised that this was what had her daughter worried, the goddess can do little but smile warmly at her. "And what is stopping you from experiencing these things?" Safrin wonders kindly. "There is no path through this that you have to walk. You might remain unused to people even once you have been around them." She shrugs her shoulders. "Your interactions with them are entirely under your own control, to take at your own pace."

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