Don't paint wonderful lies on me that wash away
She remained quiet for a while, considering the task, what Loren had wanted help with and the outcome. If she was bothered by the subject, it didn't show. Her face was quite serene, save for a slight coloring to her cheeks... but that could just be the heat of the room, right? (Well no, she was definitely blushing.)
The revelation that there were no gods where he'd come from was far more of a shock. Maea gave him a startled look, a million questions crowding in her eyes - how was that even possible? - but she was able to hold them back. Considered again, and nodded slowly.
"If you never interacted with gods before, then I should say you are excused for any and all future mistakes," she said with a kind expression. "How could anyone expect you to know the ins and outs of a culture and traditions you were not born to? I'm natural born, and I still make them. "
She knelt down by the shrine and waved him over with a hand, patting the floorboards beside her. Reaching for flint and steel, she produced a small flame and brought a stick of incence into it, placed it in a little bowl of sand on the shrine and offered him the chance to do the same.
"What made you turn to Frey with your first request?" she asked. "To cure a broken heart..."
The revelation that there were no gods where he'd come from was far more of a shock. Maea gave him a startled look, a million questions crowding in her eyes - how was that even possible? - but she was able to hold them back. Considered again, and nodded slowly.
"If you never interacted with gods before, then I should say you are excused for any and all future mistakes," she said with a kind expression. "How could anyone expect you to know the ins and outs of a culture and traditions you were not born to? I'm natural born, and I still make them. "
She knelt down by the shrine and waved him over with a hand, patting the floorboards beside her. Reaching for flint and steel, she produced a small flame and brought a stick of incence into it, placed it in a little bowl of sand on the shrine and offered him the chance to do the same.
"What made you turn to Frey with your first request?" she asked. "To cure a broken heart..."
