[An oddity indeed, one that Ortus never found adequate answer for, when it finally occurred to him to contemplate it.]
The Ninth was never a fecund House. We lack the resources of other Houses, as well as their flesh magicians. Another type of envy, that disparity in the material conditions.
[Something he could understand in Viktor's memory of that strange, bright world. For all of the wealth of sunlight, he could recognize the signs of other deprivations all too well.]
I have been told that this place seeks to foster connections between Sleepers. Perhaps this is one of the mechanisms that encourages such things? [To lighter topics, by comparison; all things considered, the concept of magic that shares memories for some higher end is almost explicable to Ortus.] Well-chosen memories, if that is so.
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[An oddity indeed, one that Ortus never found adequate answer for, when it finally occurred to him to contemplate it.]
The Ninth was never a fecund House. We lack the resources of other Houses, as well as their flesh magicians. Another type of envy, that disparity in the material conditions.
[Something he could understand in Viktor's memory of that strange, bright world. For all of the wealth of sunlight, he could recognize the signs of other deprivations all too well.]
I have been told that this place seeks to foster connections between Sleepers. Perhaps this is one of the mechanisms that encourages such things? [To lighter topics, by comparison; all things considered, the concept of magic that shares memories for some higher end is almost explicable to Ortus.] Well-chosen memories, if that is so.