Room 322, Sunday Night

[not_every_mage]

It had been barely more than 48 hours since Anders was last in this room, this safe space that was bright with Rapunzel's paints and littered with his own clothes and books. It felt like it might as well have been years. When he'd left, he could be flip about killing because he hadn't needed to do much of it, not enough to make it real. Now he'd done more than he had expected outside a war. (He didn't feel all that bad about it. Deep down, he wondered if that were a problem.)

In Rapture, he'd been fueled by potions and adrenaline -- too tightly wound by the situation to sleep, to rest, to eat more than a mouthful or so when they'd had the chance. It had gotten him through the horror of it all, and Nathan's pizza had helped dull the gnawing in his stomach. But now ... now he felt, all at once, as if he'd die on his feet if he didn't lie down immediately.

He took off his boots and sprawled on his bed. Drifting with his eyes closed, he imagined what would happen if he took the same crew back to Thedas.

The templars would never see them coming.

[OOC:Closed door, open post!]

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"Just people," Kathy confirmed. "Some extraordinary people have transcended themselves to better help us on our path to enlightenment, but they weren't, like, born special or anything. They just worked hard to on their own personal journey. That's kind of the central tenant of Buddhism. You work hard to find enlightenment and leave the world better than you found it. It's where we get the concept of 'karma' from. Basically, whatever you put into the world will come back to you, good or bad."

Okay, that was really the briefest and most basic explanation ever, but it didn't seem the best time to give Anders a thorough grounding in a religion that Kathy didn't even follow and her mun knew even less about omg.

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"So people should be good because it will make good things happen to them, not because it'll please the Maker," Anders summarized. "Funny.It seems like so many religions come down to being kind to each other, in the end."

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"Then you'd think more of them would practice it," Kathy grumbled. "People ruin everything?"

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"It seems that way," Anders sighed. "Someone comes up with some amazing way to think about the world -- and then it gets twisted to make whoever's richest happier."

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"Let's get rich and buck the trend," Kathy suggested with a sigh. "I mean, I'm all for being happy, but I'd like to think I'd still be a decent person."

Either way, she was willing to give it a shot.

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"I like to think it too," Anders said. "Though not as much as I'd like to just be rich and find out for sure. Not that it's likely to happen, but a man can dream."