Fang ignored Saix for a moment and looked at Aerith. She seemed to know the story, same as her. Maybe the legends were still alive on the lowerworld. The way she said 'The War of the Magi' and talked about a dwindling population made it sound like it was long ago, some historical thing. That ...unnerved her.
"Pretty much," she said. "Something happened that made them act crazy, some cataclysm that flooded the land with Miasma. They started branding people more and more frequently, until almost everybody knew or knew of somebody who had been marked as a l'Cie. Some people viewed it as a Calling, others as a curse. By the time I got branded it was only the religious crazies who didn't look at it as a death sentence."
She looked at Saix, then.
"I did," she said, and looked at her arm. In amongst the scars there was a curious white mark, weirdly intricate, but too pale to be a scar or a tattoo like her others. "I got the usual brand, the type that tells you how long you have left, and I was given a focus... but I don't remember much. When I woke up here it looked frozen like this. I'm not a Cie'th, so I figure I must have done whatever they told me to do."
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Date: 2015-12-17 09:38 pm (UTC)"Pretty much," she said. "Something happened that made them act crazy, some cataclysm that flooded the land with Miasma. They started branding people more and more frequently, until almost everybody knew or knew of somebody who had been marked as a l'Cie. Some people viewed it as a Calling, others as a curse. By the time I got branded it was only the religious crazies who didn't look at it as a death sentence."
She looked at Saix, then.
"I did," she said, and looked at her arm. In amongst the scars there was a curious white mark, weirdly intricate, but too pale to be a scar or a tattoo like her others. "I got the usual brand, the type that tells you how long you have left, and I was given a focus... but I don't remember much. When I woke up here it looked frozen like this. I'm not a Cie'th, so I figure I must have done whatever they told me to do."