"You are deserving of kindness. I wouldn't say I'm too kind to everyone, you know."
In fact, plenty of people in this world deserved just the opposite of kindness. But good people were worth protecting. Worth caring about. Altair had indeed met precious few like that in this world. And healers were... Special. There hadn't been a lot of healers back when he was a slave. But the ones who had been there had been wonderful. Warm hands and kind voices when he'd had precious little else that was good in his life. And doctors of all kind that he'd met were good people too- for the most part.
"And I'd say it depends on who you ask," Altair replied, sounding entirely honest. Not scared like one might have thought, not immediately shrieking about abominations or the like like one might perhaps expect, "Some have no particular opinion, others might think only in terms of what they might gain from being possessed, and others still might see it as something quite fine so long as both parties are willing."
His own situation was rather unique, so he didn't mention it. But still.
"That's where I'm at. If a spirit is willing to tie its life to a living person's and the person is willing to walk with the spirit, then that sounds rather like a blessing to me. Perhaps not the most common opinion in my homeland, but I think most would just be intrigued. Why do you ask?"
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In fact, plenty of people in this world deserved just the opposite of kindness. But good people were worth protecting. Worth caring about. Altair had indeed met precious few like that in this world. And healers were... Special. There hadn't been a lot of healers back when he was a slave. But the ones who had been there had been wonderful. Warm hands and kind voices when he'd had precious little else that was good in his life. And doctors of all kind that he'd met were good people too- for the most part.
"And I'd say it depends on who you ask," Altair replied, sounding entirely honest. Not scared like one might have thought, not immediately shrieking about abominations or the like like one might perhaps expect, "Some have no particular opinion, others might think only in terms of what they might gain from being possessed, and others still might see it as something quite fine so long as both parties are willing."
His own situation was rather unique, so he didn't mention it. But still.
"That's where I'm at. If a spirit is willing to tie its life to a living person's and the person is willing to walk with the spirit, then that sounds rather like a blessing to me. Perhaps not the most common opinion in my homeland, but I think most would just be intrigued. Why do you ask?"