A Muse Protests

[adhmharaighe]

Do not consider two of me. Please. I want there to be only one, and in one place. 

Two....

[Shake of the head]

...please.

Don't. 

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[gwenhwyfar]

Ah, how nostalgic.

[adhmharaighe]

...

[Frown]

Nostalgic?

[gwenhwyfar]

I remember when I was your age first learning the traditional age.

[adhmharaighe]

...the traditional age...

I do not understand.

[gwenhwyfar]

Druidry. The traditional path. Awen.

[adhmharaighe]

...you are a druid?

[gwenhwyfar]

Almost. I am an ovate, I am their shaman.

[adhmharaighe]

Akin to a druid master?

[gwenhwyfar]

The druid is the master to the ovates and bards.

[adhmharaighe]

Then....I've not been taught that lesson.

[gwenhwyfar]

Do not worry! You will learn that when you're older. But I am sure you will make a fine druid.

[adhmharaighe]

How are you sure?

[gwenhwyfar]

My teacher, he is a druid and he was the one who raised me. He used to tell me certain mysteries and traditions are handed to you once you are deemed responsible by your own kind. A long time ago, before druids were shunned and murdered, they practiced and taught in piece. Sometimes for twenty years.

[adhmharaighe]

...Such a time has not been known to my people since the time of legend.

[gwenhwyfar]

Unfortunately, that is true. Where I come from, it has been over 300 years.

[adhmharaighe]

Where do you come from?

[gwenhwyfar]

I come from Cymru.

[adhmharaighe]

That is not a kingdom I know.

[gwenhwyfar]

That seems to be the case with many.

[adhmharaighe]

Are there many druids left?

[gwenhwyfar]

In Cymru? No, they're not. We're forced to practice in private. If we are discovered we are taken, tortured, and killed.

However, the land of Eire has far more druids than Cymru. They are not shunned and even kings bow to them. Just as they did before.

[adhmharaighe]

Why do you not leave for Eire?

[gwenhwyfar]

But I have, if only for a while, until I came to this place, this Asgard.

[adhmharaighe]

The land I was taken to is called Anatole. Have you heard of it in Asgard?

[gwenhwyfar]

Only in passing, but not from anyone in Asgard. The mundane has had girls there before.