Eighteenth Sip
[Far too many children Mal cares about have now been whisked away, and it's playing on her mind a lot. She realises, of course, that this probably isn't helping matters. But do they? She knows that this world, this foolish place, follows the way of Earth more than anything else. But something about this whole mess is reminding her a lot of home]
In the world I come from, belief is everything. The world is saturated with magic to a point where if enough people believe something is true, if enough people will something to be true, it is. When parents tell their child to behave or the bogeyman will get them, they're being serious. They exist in my world, because terrified children think about them enough to make them so. They real, they're solid and they exist to scare the young ones.
The way the journals been the last few days, every page... it's talking about this creature. It's on almost everyone's minds all the time, while we all wait for the next time it strikes. Back home, that would give it such power. This much belief in something could quite possibly turn it into a God. Untouchable to anyone.
I know saying 'stop thinking about it' is a stupid request, and I know it's an impossible one. After all, trying not to think about something is a sure fire way to think about it more. But...perhaps changing your way of thinking could do something? Give it a weakness, will it into being. It might not work, nothing else in this Gods-forsaken world works like mine does, but perhaps it's worth a shot?
In the world I come from, belief is everything. The world is saturated with magic to a point where if enough people believe something is true, if enough people will something to be true, it is. When parents tell their child to behave or the bogeyman will get them, they're being serious. They exist in my world, because terrified children think about them enough to make them so. They real, they're solid and they exist to scare the young ones.
The way the journals been the last few days, every page... it's talking about this creature. It's on almost everyone's minds all the time, while we all wait for the next time it strikes. Back home, that would give it such power. This much belief in something could quite possibly turn it into a God. Untouchable to anyone.
I know saying 'stop thinking about it' is a stupid request, and I know it's an impossible one. After all, trying not to think about something is a sure fire way to think about it more. But...perhaps changing your way of thinking could do something? Give it a weakness, will it into being. It might not work, nothing else in this Gods-forsaken world works like mine does, but perhaps it's worth a shot?