Evan tapped the crystal, letting the plants clarify again so Bree could poke at the proper ones. "Tuning the crystal to the plants was more spellwork than alchemy, I'll admit, but the treatments to the crystals and the pots of the plants was alchemically based."
"Am I distracting you?" he added. "That's too bad. Tell me, what do you know about the Navajo?"
He continued without waiting for a reply. "The Navajo peoples, or at least the members of the tribe I had the fortune to meet, believed that words, the breath of the stories themselves, had power. There were certain tales that should only be told during the winter, for example, or that could only be told to members of the tribe of a certain age. I was allowed to record many of those stories to study while I lived with them, and I followed their same rules to ensure that their customs were kept."
"Eventually, it came time for me to move on. When my studies were complete, I destroyed all copies of the stories I'd written down, because I couldn't guarantee that others who read them would follow the correct customs. What does the average Harvard scholar care about the superstitions of a Native tribe, after all? And because I could not guarantee the safe custodianship of those copies, I destroyed them."
"Do you understand now why I will not return those pages?"
((the article I'm referencing/co-opting))
"Am I distracting you?" he added. "That's too bad. Tell me, what do you know about the Navajo?"
He continued without waiting for a reply. "The Navajo peoples, or at least the members of the tribe I had the fortune to meet, believed that words, the breath of the stories themselves, had power. There were certain tales that should only be told during the winter, for example, or that could only be told to members of the tribe of a certain age. I was allowed to record many of those stories to study while I lived with them, and I followed their same rules to ensure that their customs were kept."
"Eventually, it came time for me to move on. When my studies were complete, I destroyed all copies of the stories I'd written down, because I couldn't guarantee that others who read them would follow the correct customs. What does the average Harvard scholar care about the superstitions of a Native tribe, after all? And because I could not guarantee the safe custodianship of those copies, I destroyed them."
"Do you understand now why I will not return those pages?"
((the article I'm referencing/co-opting))
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