[ Felt, he says. Only certain types of power can be felt, and sometimes only by certain types of people. There's something to this guy, Natasha decides. ]
The trees? And the pillars?
[ It's a question. Natasha didn't know magic, not really, but she could identify the evidence of ritual. If they were brought to the same place, from the same darkness, maybe there was power in those stones. In that fountain. In that book.
She shakes her head. She had been raised to be a good Soviet girl, distrustful of superstition, of falling back to the old ways. ]
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The trees? And the pillars?
[ It's a question. Natasha didn't know magic, not really, but she could identify the evidence of ritual. If they were brought to the same place, from the same darkness, maybe there was power in those stones. In that fountain. In that book.
She shakes her head. She had been raised to be a good Soviet girl, distrustful of superstition, of falling back to the old ways. ]
I try to avoid books like that, if I can help it.
[ There. She's put something out there, too. ]