IC: Addendum

[sythyry]

(An answer to several people)

Their curse is simply poverty, and perhaps provinciality. These have made an ordinary sort of accident far worse. Due to poverty they did not want to spend the night in an expensive Vheshrame hotel; due to provinciality they had no friends in the city to stay with. So they drove for home. Due to poverty they had little experience with driving, and none at night; due to provinciality, all they had driven before was a heavy farm-wagon, not a light carriage. Due to poverty, the carriage in question was the mayor's, not their own.

And it had been a bad day, and whoever was driving was surely exhausted and perhaps distracted.

So, over the bluff they went.

At least no primes were injured in the accident.

Comments

[kensaro.livejournal.com]

I know that selling cley is rather frowned upon, but one would think that it would be a different situation if it was gifted and not sold, especially if it were then to be used for the healing of oneself of a relative/loved one?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

Transferring it is the intimate act: between relative and doctor. Payment makes a shameful situation more so.

[terrana.livejournal.com]

Intimate, in this case, meaning that in most cases* it requires at the very least a bodily embrace, and often means things that would amount to foreplay in any other situation. The distaste is largely associative, for the same reason that public nudity is classified as a sexual offence in numerous terrestrial jurisdictions.

*In other cases, we're getting into cley vampires and particularly invasive spells. You don't want to go there.