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Note to self: be more careful about who you flirt with. Sheesh.

So, lots of familiar New Feathers this time around, huh? It's getting kind of crazy. Is everyone getting settled in okay? Yuri, any guild business I should be doing?

It's been awfully quiet lately... not sure if we should be worried or what.

Oh hey, Spike! I got Tammy nesting in my room now. She's sulking, though, so I wouldn't let anybody bug her if I were you. They grow up so fast.

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I wouldn't really call myself a knight. Edward perhaps, but not myself.

Indeed. It is something that has taken some time to get used to.

Why not you? He looks more like a servant or steward or something. You're the one with the full suit of armor, after all.

Gotcha. I'll behave.

I am not serving any particular kingdom ~~anymore~~, though I am backed by one politically. Edward is the one who fights for nobility and dedication to his leader. I'm just the one who goes looking for trouble.

Very well.

Haha, that sounds kind of familiar. Though if your mom's an empress, aren't you some kind of prince? Emperor-to-be? What do you call that?

And uh, I kinda get the feeling Edward just fights for you. He's not exactly quiet about that.

It's part of that long story. We are family that does not share blood, and I hold no claim to her empire.

I am not a country or a cause, but Edward fights for me like any knight I have ever known. The way he fights is not suited to armor like mine, so he doesn't wear it.

Ahh. That sucks. Unless you don't wanna be emperor, in which case more power to you.

Ed uses that really big sword, right? He's sorta like me and Cloud in that sense. A bunch of armor just weighs you down too much. When you're hefting around a huge weapon like that you gotta take whatever speed advantages you can get.

I was king. Not all of the experience was great.

He has chain mail on to protect his chest in case something gets past that sword, but otherwise light clothing. For carrying something so large, he is surprisingly fast.

You were king, and now you're the son of an empress? That does sound like a long story.

Ah, so he's quick on his feet? It's not often you find somebody like that with a sword that size. Even I'm pretty slow with the Buster.

It's as complicated as it sounds.

He can very nearly keep up with me on the battlefield, though I suspect his sword weighs as much as I do. I think his lunaglyph is part of it, but the rest is his own enthusiasm.

I'll take your word for it.

Lunaglyph? What's that?

You do not know of them?

A lunaglyph is a magical glyph bestowed on the night a child is born. It is a gift of lunar power, and its strength depends on the phase of the moon on the night of the birth. It is how most people in my world gain power.

Huh... I've never heard of anything like that. So the moon gives people power? What happens when there's no moon?

The moon god gives people power. When there is a new moon or an eclipse, a child is considered an "unblessed." The different kingdoms have varying ways of dealing with such children, but they are generally considered bad omens and done away with.

...That's a pretty harsh punishment for being born on the wrong day of the month.

I believe the phrase goes, "you are preaching to the choir."

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Ha ha ha.

Sorry. I guess all worlds have some weird cultures that are tough to deal with.

It encompasses so much that it seems almost impossible to change. After living both with lunaglyph and without, I have learned that the only thing holding the unblessed from growing is the stigma the world has over them.

I think I get you. Somebody tells you you're no good for so long that you start to believe it, right?

Yes. The ones that survived have been enduring this for centuries, and it is far from the truth. Far too long, it has had terrible consequences, and I cannot fathom how many lives were lost over such prejudice.

People just... let their own kids die because they don't have a glyph thing? How can they let that happen?

Because of the will of Veros, the moon god, there are often laws against sheltering unblesseds. In Burgusstadt they are killed. Fayel is the same, though banishment is acceptable. Some parents send their children away, hoping their sons and daughters will eventually come to Sapran, the village of unblesseds. Halgita is one of the few nations that allows unblesseds to live safely, though they are still looked down upon for the nature of their being.

It is allowed because so many see these actions as righteous. Most of those in power enforce it to be so.

That is so messed up, man. I'm so glad my world doesn't have a whackload of organized religion.

It is something to be very glad for. It is not just the religion, but the god at the center of it who perpetuates this tragedy.

We don't really have gods where I'm from. There's this crazy archaic goddess, I've heard, but hardly anybody even knows her name (I actually forgot it myself). And the summons don't really count either, because they kind of serve us more than the other way around...

How strange it sounds, and yet it sounds so pleasant. Veros the Crimson is a distant god, but never too distant. Aristos with the proper amount of strength or number can call on his aid and a part of him appears to grant lunaglyphs. He is not a part of our lives, but he is nevertheless there.