Kelson's not so inner roman catholic was continuously twitching at the idea of other gods, but he also knew and accepted that others had a different relationship with the divine than he did, and other worlds no doubt followed different examples. Curufin's relationship with his....gods were no doubt different than someone else from their world and so on. There was no point in arguing because people saw the color yellow differently. Still, he wished Duncan was there, having his friend and confessor to talk to about this would have made such a difference. Even if he knew Duncan thought he relied too much on him.
The idea of what Curufin was referring to as divine was interesting, and he wished he knew what his friend would say about it.
"It sounds like it is possible that your Melkor was similar to these ....parasites." Kelson liked that term. It was apt. "They refer to us as hosts? ....Do they refer to themselves as gods then? Or do they call themselves Hosts?" Kelson tried to tease out the relationship and how the parasites viewed themselves. Truly.
"Yes, your....." Kelson paused, realizing he didn't know Maglor's relation to Curufin at all, "Maglor told me your people have some magical abilities, I would be very interested--if you are comfortable with it--to learn more about them. The Deryni, my people in Gwynedd, our knowledge of what we can and can't do is rather limited. "
Kelson paused, musing over another possibility. "There's always the chance that we're not being pulled directly from our world through this Portal, and landing here in Hadriel. There could be time we're missing, where these parasites are able to work to establish a link--if one does in fact exist. Or it happens naturally when we're here, or while we're asleep." Kelson was pulling things together, trying to piece facts.
"I've only been here a short time, but there have always been intervals between when I or someone else arrives through the Portal and something that a parasite feeds off of. Could that time be necessary for them to create a link?"
That was an awfully long time. A Deryni could create such a link in seconds if not minutes with an unwilling subject. But these parasites were not Deryni, and they were doing it without anyone knowing as well, something Kelson had never tried.
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The idea of what Curufin was referring to as divine was interesting, and he wished he knew what his friend would say about it.
"It sounds like it is possible that your Melkor was similar to these ....parasites." Kelson liked that term. It was apt. "They refer to us as hosts? ....Do they refer to themselves as gods then? Or do they call themselves Hosts?" Kelson tried to tease out the relationship and how the parasites viewed themselves. Truly.
"Yes, your....." Kelson paused, realizing he didn't know Maglor's relation to Curufin at all, "Maglor told me your people have some magical abilities, I would be very interested--if you are comfortable with it--to learn more about them. The Deryni, my people in Gwynedd, our knowledge of what we can and can't do is rather limited. "
Kelson paused, musing over another possibility. "There's always the chance that we're not being pulled directly from our world through this Portal, and landing here in Hadriel. There could be time we're missing, where these parasites are able to work to establish a link--if one does in fact exist. Or it happens naturally when we're here, or while we're asleep." Kelson was pulling things together, trying to piece facts.
"I've only been here a short time, but there have always been intervals between when I or someone else arrives through the Portal and something that a parasite feeds off of. Could that time be necessary for them to create a link?"
That was an awfully long time. A Deryni could create such a link in seconds if not minutes with an unwilling subject. But these parasites were not Deryni, and they were doing it without anyone knowing as well, something Kelson had never tried.