Does the Magisterium exist in your world?

[ he seems to have taken it seriously enough, but he hardly seems threatened. he looks amused, if anything. ]

I'm a heretic, you know. Where I come from, I could get people in awful trouble just by talking to them.

[ he's definitely proud of this. ]

It's simply another facet of society. One I did not appreciate until I came to live in a place without daemons. If you lived in my world, we would be having a conversation, but so would our daemons. What form a person's daemon takes says a lot about them as well. Here? It's like everyone is always hiding half of themselves.