"Swear on it?" Vena asks, and pulls herself into a sitting position and a little bit closer. If he's not used to promises being good maybe he hasn't sworn before, so she'll have to teach him.
Oaths are binding to people who follow the Twins, so actually swearing to do something is rare and special. It hadn't been like that in the army camp. Vena finds the way they talk about it here, the various different rituals, so serious and kind of thrilling. Like words and a gesture mean more than they would otherwise. As a child she can't really make binding oaths herself, but that doesn't stop all kinds of little rituals among the kids, imitating their elders.
"You've gotta... you lock your little finger with mine, and then you say you swear to give it back and not kill anyone here, and lean north and east and south and west, and then let go." It absolutely has never occurred to her that pinky promises are anything but cool.
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Oaths are binding to people who follow the Twins, so actually swearing to do something is rare and special. It hadn't been like that in the army camp. Vena finds the way they talk about it here, the various different rituals, so serious and kind of thrilling. Like words and a gesture mean more than they would otherwise. As a child she can't really make binding oaths herself, but that doesn't stop all kinds of little rituals among the kids, imitating their elders.
"You've gotta... you lock your little finger with mine, and then you say you swear to give it back and not kill anyone here, and lean north and east and south and west, and then let go." It absolutely has never occurred to her that pinky promises are anything but cool.