It is useful, that they’re having this conversation after Stephen and Gwenaëlle have already touched on this topic. Her perspective as a person without magic, a civilian growing up into this.
(Ten years ago, I had only seen mages enough to count on the fingers of one hand, mostly at a distance, and everyone had told me my entire life that Templars protect us and them. That Tranquility is an unequivocal good for offering a broken thing a use in the Maker’s hands. That Circles are the best, safest places for mages to be. That it is heroic to haul someone screaming back into one.)
The doctor pauses and sorts through his words, more delicately and more careful than he usually does. “My impressions are biased, sure,” he says, with a tilted incline of the head; he’s a rifter, condescendingly modern, and a mage near enough as it matters, but…
“But I don’t think— well, it’s not necessarily naive or foolish, if that’s the way you were raised, and if the treatment in Nevarra is better than most. You were operating realistically based on what information you had available to you at the time. What matters is that you’re able to take in new information, reassess, and reconsider your approach. A certain malleability of perspective. Being able to accept when what you knew was wrong and turn over a new leaf. That’s what counts.”
Strange has turned over more than a few himself, out of both grim necessity and stubborn reinvention.
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(Ten years ago, I had only seen mages enough to count on the fingers of one hand, mostly at a distance, and everyone had told me my entire life that Templars protect us and them. That Tranquility is an unequivocal good for offering a broken thing a use in the Maker’s hands. That Circles are the best, safest places for mages to be. That it is heroic to haul someone screaming back into one.)
The doctor pauses and sorts through his words, more delicately and more careful than he usually does. “My impressions are biased, sure,” he says, with a tilted incline of the head; he’s a rifter, condescendingly modern, and a mage near enough as it matters, but…
“But I don’t think— well, it’s not necessarily naive or foolish, if that’s the way you were raised, and if the treatment in Nevarra is better than most. You were operating realistically based on what information you had available to you at the time. What matters is that you’re able to take in new information, reassess, and reconsider your approach. A certain malleability of perspective. Being able to accept when what you knew was wrong and turn over a new leaf. That’s what counts.”
Strange has turned over more than a few himself, out of both grim necessity and stubborn reinvention.