[AW] illusion never changed

[Averin]

averin ILLUSION NEVER CHANGED INTO SOMETHING REAL Averin hadn't given it a thought that Maude might not know what books were, because he had come from areas where books were normal enough things. It had been lost on him that so many wouldn't even know what books were, wouldn't even understand half of the things from the other world that he had once known. But that had been so very long ago, and even Averin wasn't sure he could remember it all. He does know that it's strange to find himself able to use some sort of power to move small things; an accidental realization not too long ago after being here. Averin had been born with other types of abilites, but he had been too young to really understand them or use them, and he had been dragged away from all that too young to really remember how to miss any of it save that one shape he could take before. The shapes he had known his parents to take. That life was over, and it had been over for a long time now. Averin had to focus on what life brought him now, and it was the way Maude said books, the way she had looked saying it that caught Averin's attention and held it. He blinked, and then she was speaking again. She didn't know what books were? Oh. Oh. Averin looked a little abashed for not taking into consideration that it might not be a widespread notion, these books. He honestly hadn't thought that this place would have books at all until Only had said it was so. "They are like thin bits of pressed bark, with information written in them. Symbols with meaning for letters and words." He responded lightly, deciding that the imagery that he was giving didn't really sound at all like what the actual sight of books were. Yet it was all he had to give on the matter of conveying what they were to her. I'M WIDE AWAKE AND I CAN SEE THE PERFECT SKY IS TORN

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