[ It also doesn't help that Akua describes things like her world, her Role, and Names as if they are something that exists here, baked into the fabric of every reality, instead of simply hers. It's a fundamental logic to her, the same that her magic is, and the same that breathing, or gravity is. It simply is, and that it is not a building block to reality is... difficult to separate from the world at large. ]

I think it was. Perhaps to... challenge our convictions, to perhaps challenge where we had ended as inevitabilities.

I know that I chose the same as you, without events in my past. Perhaps the weight of yours are not as... [ Guild-inducing... ] Weighted in Meridian's favor. There is no shame in that.

I did not press you then to hold you to us, you know. [ A sad smile. ] Only to make sure that it was you who chose it.