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[notyetlegend]

Oh for...of all th' irresponsible...

[There's some angry Scottish muttering as Merida sets her locket down, standing in front of what looks like a shrine to the White Hart in armor. Or it had been before it was desecrated in such a manner. Her knees sink into the dirt and tugging her quiver and bow off and setting them to the side, she starts to fix it up, huffing. Her locket is angled so that she can look at it while she works, pulling a face when she pulls things out of the broken shrine before tossing them over her shoulder.]

As if we didn't have other things to worry about with th' Void comin' closer. Honestly, whatever happened to respectin' th' gods? I thought th' Black Shuck an' th' White Hart held sway over these lands.

[It's the second one she's come across in the last day or so, though she bets there are more like this. Even her ears had caught noise of the riots that had started happening in the Drabwurld, and not shardbearer related this time. Merida shook her head as she set the shrine artifacts upright, making a mental note to replace them as she sighs. She can't claim to know the affairs of gods, even with what Ben said about the vision he had. After a minute or two and the shrine starting to look better, Merida pulls her hands back to rest them against her legs, pausing before picking her locket up again.]

Does anyone consider just...stayin' here? Settle down after th' war ends? I don't know if I could go back home to who I used to be, if I could just forget everythin' that's happened here an' all the people I've met, th' friends I've made. [She reaches to brush the hawk feather behind her right ear back, braided into her hair like it is.] Just curious if anyone else feels th' same way I guess.

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[notyetlegend]

My people believe th' gods help those who help themselves, but perhaps at a time like this, th' gods wish to be prayed to. If they get stronger through prayer, then they'd be able to face whatever is causin' them to quarrel.

[It made her sound like a hopeless fool, surely, but at the same time it had been her train of thought while she'd talked to Ben. Why else would the Shuck ask her to say a prayer for him? Merida doesn't say that, though, not when the Monarchs are likely monitoring the lockets once again. Instead, she bites her bottom lip when she hears that, glancing off to the side.]

I never knew th' concept of duty or friends before I came here. I didn't understand it, what my mother was preparin' me for, an' I hated that I didn't have any say. That I would become queen without say, that I would marry against my will. [She shakes her head.] I admire your loyalty, Cullen, to your friends an' family an' your cause. Perhaps some part of me is still that selfish girl I was.

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[detoxifying]

I... like that philosophy. Where I come from, we were taught that our God, the Maker, abandoned humanity long ago, for our sins and selfishness. Even so, we still pray to him in the hopes that he'll listen.

[ He smiles a little in spite of himself. ]

For most of my life, I'd remained on the same path, dedicated to the cause I chose for myself as a boy of eight. I never thought to question it, even when I should have. It was only recently, before arriving here that I was given another choice. Another way.

[ In a sense, perhaps their stories were the opposites. ]

Thinking of yourself is not always a terrible thing. It's only when you neglect what's most important that it becomes a problem.