Living
Oathring
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“How are you supposed to know you gave up anything, if nothing changes?”
The Wild Hunt (https://wildhunt.org/author/luke/page/4)
If Dionysos could show up uninvited and distinctive in my life, and Darcy Lewis could become a defining characteristic of a fandom where she hardly existed in the main text, why did I only consider one of those a person? I could not find a satisfactory answer, so I turned to the greatest mind I knew. I called Sherlock Holmes.
This is why I tend my altars so often: things change. I have a tendency to forget things that I do not put my hands on occasionally.
Now, everyone knows a Jack tale. There’s the one about the beanstalk, sure, and most have heard a story or two about him in one of his many run-ins with the devil. The details change, but the man is the same.
“How,” I asked my partner, at last, “do you have a home you can’t take care of?”