[ Saint-Germain's lips thin in what almost might in another life have been the beginnings of a smile. She sips her drink, debating how much to say.
He'd been completely forthright with her, however. So she shall do the same. She is bound by no necessary secrecy here, not like in a world controlled by the Curse of Balal where real magic was frequently punished, or remaining in the shadows of history served a strategic purpose.
Also, if she's being completely honest with herself, she was always terrible at dissembling. Or so Cagliostro claims, and Cagliostro does not lie. ]
My world suffers under a curse that prevents mutual understanding. A priestess who sought to overthrow this curse left behind the results of her investigations into the nature of the world. Magicians who focused on her research into breaking materials down to their primal forms, then reconstituting them, developed a black art known as "alchemy".
[ She sets her glass down. ] Not the charlatanry that served as the forefather of modern chemical thought. Real alchemy, able to achieve true material perfection.
A perfect human body, complete in essence and freed of impurity, does not age.
[ When Saint-Germain calls her physical form "perfect", her tone is devoid of vanity. She is stating a fundamental, quintessential fact. ]
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Date: 2022-07-12 01:09 pm (UTC)He'd been completely forthright with her, however. So she shall do the same. She is bound by no necessary secrecy here, not like in a world controlled by the Curse of Balal where real magic was frequently punished, or remaining in the shadows of history served a strategic purpose.
Also, if she's being completely honest with herself, she was always terrible at dissembling. Or so Cagliostro claims, and Cagliostro does not lie. ]
My world suffers under a curse that prevents mutual understanding. A priestess who sought to overthrow this curse left behind the results of her investigations into the nature of the world. Magicians who focused on her research into breaking materials down to their primal forms, then reconstituting them, developed a black art known as "alchemy".
[ She sets her glass down. ] Not the charlatanry that served as the forefather of modern chemical thought. Real alchemy, able to achieve true material perfection.
A perfect human body, complete in essence and freed of impurity, does not age.
[ When Saint-Germain calls her physical form "perfect", her tone is devoid of vanity. She is stating a fundamental, quintessential fact. ]