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“We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.”
“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
“I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”
“It is difficult to see a situation for what it is when you are in the midst of it,” Tsukiko says. “It is too familiar. Too comfortable.”
Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
The truest tales require time and familiarity to become what they are.”
They want to believe that magic is nothing but clever deception, because to think it real would keep them up at night, afraid of their own existence.
“Someone needs to tell those tales. When the battles are fought and won and lost, when the pirates find their treasures and the dragons eat their foes for breakfast with a nice cup of Lapsang souchong, someone needs to tell their bits of overlapping narrative. There’s magic in that. It’s in the listener, and for each and every ear it will be different, and it will affect them in ways they can never predict.
“The circus arrives without warning.”
