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[silk_for_calde]

[VOICE POST]

I hadn't realized that curses could cause so much trouble-- profanity, and blasphemy, and threats... I wanted to apologize to, I believe it was, Hiyori and Roxas? I was not myself when you met me, and I feel awful for being so rude to you. Please forgive my behavior! I hope you found your way without too much difficulty, after you

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[obliviomancy]

It doesn't matter. I didn't get most of what you said anyway.

[silk_for_calde]

I can imagine. I found it rather confusing when I came to the quarter I now live in, though I've become accustomed to it now. Nevertheless, I was unpardonably rude to you both.

My name is Silk; I don't think I ever introduced myself.

[obliviomancy]

It's not unpardonably rude if no one cares.

... Silk. That's cloth, isn't it?

[silk_for_calde]

Being threatened didn't bother you, my son?

Yes, a soft cloth, woven from fibers made by a small caterpillar.

[obliviomancy]

...

I'm not your son, and you're not that big a threat.

And you were named after it?

[silk_for_calde]

A needler is nothing to laugh at, although admittedly I'm not a practiced shot. And I didn't mean to offend-- it's a force of habit; augurs are trained to regard all men and women as their children.

The custom in Viron-- my city-- is to name girls after flowers and plants, and boys after animals, or their parts or products. Since silkworms are animals, Silk is a masculine name, though not a terribly common one.

[obliviomancy]

Then stop. ... What's a needler?

[silk_for_calde]

It shoots slender metallic needles very quickly at the target; a friend of mine told me that, the way they're cut on the ends will cause them to veer off course inside a body, in order to do as much damage as possible.
The one I have is not mine; augurs do not normally carry weapons. I'm determined, though, to return it to its proper owner. I wouldn't fire upon anyone under normal circumstances, but while cursed I believed myself to be someone very different.

[obliviomancy]

... How do the needles even get

Your world is weird.

[silk_for_calde]

From your perspective I'm sure it is, though from my perspective, your whorl-- world-- is the peculiar one.