Hmmmm, [This time her eyes only fall half lidded as she recalls the feeling of wood in her hand, the smell of a nearby campfire, the faint scratch of the still-smoking burnt end against stone as she practiced her letters--
--wait, what?--
Sypha blinks out of the sense-memory and flicks her gaze to the rudimentary charcoal stick held between her thumb, middle, and forefingers.]
It's will, but it's memory also, isn't it? Or the ability to trick yourself into thinking something's a real memory, like a story told wrong so many times the truth gets lost.
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--wait, what?--
Sypha blinks out of the sense-memory and flicks her gaze to the rudimentary charcoal stick held between her thumb, middle, and forefingers.]
It's will, but it's memory also, isn't it? Or the ability to trick yourself into thinking something's a real memory, like a story told wrong so many times the truth gets lost.