Drink another shot of make believe

Bastien had assumed she had been in her late teens so the age made sense, but hearing she was a soldier was a surprise. His heart softened toward Edrei slightly; to have been a soldier in her youth must have been hard in addition to the unnerving experience of landing here as an outlander. Unsure of what comment to make about that, he decided to explain her question instead. "Oh, it is a story from my world. About the creation of the world. A man and a woman in a beautiful garden, but they are innocent. As soon as they learn about corruption..." Bastien tutted, shaking his head down at the bottles as if 'corruption' was a great pain to him and not something he regularly encouraged. "They become ashamed of their nakedness and hide. God kicks them from the garden...I did not believe this story. But many did." He turned to Edy, curious to see if myths transferred between worlds. "Do you have a creation story in your world?" BASTIEN This tiresome desire to shock and amaze Perhaps I’ll grow out of it one of these days