I mean everywhere. If there are less rules about mages, there are more rules about other things. Even in Antiva, they control the price of leather.
[ so a metaphor that gabriel wont understand, but. you know. the point. ]
Or here, in Heaven, where we are supposed to be entirely free, still we are bound by the rules of our redemption and of whatever it is that is trying to destroy us.
[ they don't reply for a bit. which is bad, because it means their emotions are a lot easier to parse and it's just a lot of low-level anxiety and depression with a tiny bit of anger tied to it. their pen taps on a page of the bible before they just rip it out and move to the next page. ]
Freedom always has a price, but that's not... [ ugh. ] God would have to be a major dick to hold all of this against everybody. And whatever this thing is... it wants to keep coming back for some reason. So maybe the answer is baiting it and trapping it somehow.
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[ so a metaphor that gabriel wont understand, but. you know. the point. ]
Or here, in Heaven, where we are supposed to be entirely free, still we are bound by the rules of our redemption and of whatever it is that is trying to destroy us.
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Freedom always has a price, but that's not... [ ugh. ] God would have to be a major dick to hold all of this against everybody. And whatever this thing is... it wants to keep coming back for some reason. So maybe the answer is baiting it and trapping it somehow.