duos

[nos_servabit]

[Guess what time it is, Vatheon?]

[INTROSPECTIVE PHILOSOPHY TIME WITH JACOB, OF COURSE. Seriously, what were you thinking it was going to be.]

[Today, Jacob seems to be finishing up the last details of a illustration he's sewing onto a piece of cloth. He looks up from his work, a questioning glance in his eyes.]

What protects you, people of Vatheon?

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[invisibill]

I don't get it. How can something like that protect anything?

[nos_servabit]

It was the symbol of eternal life, one that was supposedly used by the gods themselves. People believed that this symbol would be able to protect them from evil as well.

[invisibill]

But that doesn't make any sense. A symbol can't do anything. Its just a piece of paper.

[nos_servabit]

Perhaps. But maybe the belief in such a symbol was enough to provide protection on it's own.

It's the same way with religion. Some argue that gods do not exist, but for other the belief in these gods or god make them feel safe. Protected.

[invisibill]

Still doesn't make any sense to me.

[nos_servabit]

What about you, then? What protects you in your life?

[invisibill]

From what?

[nos_servabit]

From anything that you think will harm you.

[invisibill]

My parents have invented a lot of stuff.

[nos_servabit]

And you think this stuff can protect you in your everyday life?

[invisibill]

It does pretty well against the ghosts.

[nos_servabit]

[Any normal person would be like "DUDE YOU FIGHT GHOSTS??" but Jacob just nods, as if ghosts are totally normal.]

So you fight against these ghosts?

[invisibill]

I leave that to the ghost-hunters. [Not technically a lie.]

[nos_servabit]

Hmmm. Well, if they know what they're doing.

...But you don't always stand and watch them do their thing. You participate in it somehow, right?

[invisibill]

No way. Safest thing to do during a ghost attack is to go far, far away.

[nos_servabit]

...

Something tells me you don't always do that, Danny.