[ Not responding immediately, as he considers how best to word what he's thinking. ]
You've probably heard this before, but Fae don't have souls. Not having a soul means being keenly aware of what a soul provides: memory, emotion, and purpose.
[ He's looking down at where both of your hands are intertwined now. "Purpose". Funny, heavy word, that. ]
You'll all find it much easier to manipulate your individual Patterns to use your abilities now. The trade-off is that you'll "see" emotion and memory. The foundations that each ground the sense of self that you all have, have also been compromised in an effort to make you all a little more Arcadian and thus a little less susceptible to the Gentry. You combine the terrible beauty of being able to experience memory and emotion as a physical thing with weakened resolve, and...
[ You might be able to put two and two together by now. ]
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You've probably heard this before, but Fae don't have souls. Not having a soul means being keenly aware of what a soul provides: memory, emotion, and purpose.
[ He's looking down at where both of your hands are intertwined now. "Purpose". Funny, heavy word, that. ]
You'll all find it much easier to manipulate your individual Patterns to use your abilities now. The trade-off is that you'll "see" emotion and memory. The foundations that each ground the sense of self that you all have, have also been compromised in an effort to make you all a little more Arcadian and thus a little less susceptible to the Gentry. You combine the terrible beauty of being able to experience memory and emotion as a physical thing with weakened resolve, and...
[ You might be able to put two and two together by now. ]