[ That statement gets a bit of a funny look, but mostly because this is a full two weeks before Netzach tells him how the library works, so he's still thinking about books in a rather literal sense. Anyway, he brushes the idea into a drawer to think about later, and occupies himself with flipping to the very beginning, frowning as he reads the first few lines to himself. ]
Sounds a bit like a fairy tale. The quest, the hero, the demon king... The inevitable fall. I do wonder why so very few fairy tales reflect any sort of happiness other than bittersweet. Perhaps happiness is a thing relegated entirely to the imagination, in the end...
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[ That statement gets a bit of a funny look, but mostly because this is a full two weeks before Netzach tells him how the library works, so he's still thinking about books in a rather literal sense. Anyway, he brushes the idea into a drawer to think about later, and occupies himself with flipping to the very beginning, frowning as he reads the first few lines to himself. ]
Sounds a bit like a fairy tale. The quest, the hero, the demon king... The inevitable fall. I do wonder why so very few fairy tales reflect any sort of happiness other than bittersweet. Perhaps happiness is a thing relegated entirely to the imagination, in the end...
[ ... So about Terran fairy tales, ]