Cassian stood behind the swing, watching Lilith's back as she swung slowly before him.
"Back then..." Lilith said, slowing the swing by dragging her feet on the ground.
"I didn't even know what an Avatar was. I doubt there was a single person in that small geography I lived in who knew the meaning of the word. Ignorance is sometimes the greatest bliss, isn't it my prince?"
She tilted her head slightly to the side, her eyes drifting away.
"Back then, church, religion, priests... Such things hadn't spread to the east, to our lands."
"People prayed to the soil, the sun, and the rain. Of course, we knew gods existed; their names were mentioned in ancient parchments left from our ancestors, in the songs of bards."
"But to us, they were nothing more than legends, fairy tales told to put children to sleep. Untouchable beings living in the sky, having no business with us mortals..."
Her voice trembled and turned into a whisper.
