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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 5180862" data-attributes="member: 4936">Silhouette grimaced in spite of herself. They wanted knowledge. She could spin gold from the snow, or diamonds from the leafs of trees, but knowledge was power, and it was eternal. A name coerced had power that a name freely given might not. She wasn't sure, and it worried her."My name is Silhouette," she replied, and because the debt owed was life, she felt compelled to elaborate a little. "It's the word I chose for myself when I was born in the dark of the light. The very first thing I chose." Then, because her duty on the subject was fulfilled, she decided to obfuscate things a little. "I'm a reflection on the mirror, mothers, or maybe it's a reflection OF the mirror? But then what mirror is reflecting the mirror to make me? Maybe mirrors are all anything ever is, and we're all just different reflections of one thing standing in the middle...forever gazing into its own navel.""As for how I got here..." she shrugged. This was safer ground, though she was a bit wary to tell them how to find her own world."I chased a wolf through wood and over mountain and river. A great white wolf, with thick bristly hair and golden eyes the color of fresh honey. At first when he ran, he left paw prints, so I followed him. He learned to run without leaving tracks, so I watched for marks on the leaves, and spoor. He became as a ghost, leaving no hair in branches, tearing no leaf...so I followed his scent." She wrinkled her nose cutely. "And when he finally learned to wash away his scent, still I followed him. Up a mountainside where ice and snow leaked out of strange cracks in the ground, even though it was far too warm for them. The wolf dove into the cracks at the end of the world to elude me, but I followed still because he was my prey and I would have him."The godling shrugged."And then we were here, in the cold. And that is how I came to be here. It's been an entertaining adventure. I suppose I have you to thank for it...mothers." She nodded at Heliasillyel and Ubariya.</blockquote>

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