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k_a_webb“Every time I learn something new about the history of the Web,” Sini said, shaking her head, “I realise how much I don’t know. Lucille, honestly, if I could borrow the books you own I think it would really help, because I can’t help feeling stupid for not having cared about it all before.”
“It’s not unusual,” Lucille replied. “The Council… the fae, really… think it’s better for the races of the Web to know as little about the other worlds and the Web as possible. When I was studying to become a Walker I realised there were several reason for the fae to think the way they do, but mostly it’s because they feel safer as they believe it means that fewer people know of their existence.” She bit her lip. “Almost all the races of the Web, whether they were created or they’ve evolved over the years, know that the fae created the Web, the worlds, and the majority of the races. Even places in the middle of nowhere know their own history, which means knowing about the fae. That doesn’t mean they know much about the Council Moonjumpers or where the fae are now and I have travelled to places where they believe that the fae must be extinct by now or that they decided to move on to another place when they finished the Web.”
“There were a few fae who moved on to another world.” Meriwether shrugged. “I don’t know what happened to them, but they were planning on making another Web, because it was hard to find ourselves a place when we finished the last world. Some of us were so grateful that the Moonjumpers did evolved, because it meant we were needed. I can’t imagine what life must have been like on the Webs where the fae decided the Moonjumpers were too dangerous to exist.”
“I never knew that.” Lucille smiled. “Sini, you’re not the only person who’s learning here. Being able to learn about the fae from someone who was once fae is one of the most interesting things I’ve ever done and sometimes even I feel stupid, because I always thought I knew everything I needed to know – that was the whole point of studying to become a Moonjumper. Instead I’m finding that the Council I trusted really only teach us what the fae think we should know.” She sighed. “When I first realised that I did think long and hard about whether I still wanted to be a Moonjumper. I didn’t want to be another fae puppet, the way many of the people I trained with are, so when I found out I was something different, I’d been chosen by one of the worlds, I felt a pride I never thought I’d feel again.” The smile returned and Sini couldn’t help smiling too. “If it hadn’t been for that I know I would have walked away, even though all I’d ever wanted was to be a Moonjumper.”
“How did you first realise you hadn’t been taught everything you needed to know?” Bertram asked.
“As an apprentice Moonjumper I’m not meant to explore too much. When I travel to a world I’m given an itinerary, but no one follows me around to make sure I stick to it. On my first journey I realised that I had more time than I needed to do what I was required to, so I took the chance to visit a couple of towns that weren’t on my itinerary while I was on Saethera, and I learnt then that I knew less about the worlds than I needed to.” Lucille shook her head. “I found a race I didn’t know existed, an island that wasn’t on any map I’d ever seen before, and a door that wasn’t on any of Leolin’s maps, although back then I knew nothing about Leolin.”
“What did you do?” Sini really enjoyed hearing more about Lucille’s time as a Moonjumper. “Did the Council already know about the race and chose not to tell you about them, or did they have no idea they existed either?”
“The first thing I did was study the journals of the creator of the world and the notes of the race creators I know worked with her on the world, but I didn’t find them mentioned by name, so from that I knew one of three things had happened – the race had evolved, the world creator had worked with another race creator, or the race had travelled there from somewhere else. So I started going through the journals of some of the early Moonjumpers, hoping that I would find something useful. When I didn’t find anything in them I ended up going to Carver to ask his opinion. By then he’d been an apprentice Moonjumper for three years and, even though I wasn’t sure if I should, I trusted him enough to talk to him about it. It turned out that he’d been reading Leolin’s journals and Leolin had come across the race, who’d helped him by pointing him in the direction of a couple of natural doors he didn’t know about, which led him to one of the sibling worlds of Kniroch.
“It turned out that the race had once lived on Pendragon, but they had enough of the water world and chose to travel through a door one of them found by accident one day. As it turned out the Council didn’t know about them I should have submitted a report, but in the end I chose not to, because I was worried that someone might be uncomfortable about where they’d come from and do something stupid.” Lucille ran a hand through her hair. “The island was home to a race I did know, but I had no idea they were living on Saethera, so again I probably should have submitted a report. I didn’t because they asked me not to, even though they knew any Council Moonjumper would have ignored their wishes. When I went back they told me they knew they were safe because they could feel that I was a true Moonjumper, rather than one of the fae’s puppet Moonjumpers, and they gave me some information on a number of new doors that I could use.
“Not long after that I made my first journey to the second continent of Athare, as one of those doors led to it, and I’d always wanted to learn more about where my race had originally lived.” She sighed. “I’m glad I did, but… the fae had created the town, not thinking much beyond what would happen in the first year. That’s actually abnormal for them, because they made certain that the races on the other worlds would be fine after the first year, but the races of Athare were created in a rush due to the fear the fae had that there wouldn’t be enough magic within the world to create the Web.”
“We made some huge mistakes with the races of Athare,” Meriwether admitted, “but we were so focused on the Web that everything else faded into the background. I know Eithne did a lot of work with the Weavers, even though she was making other races for the other worlds, because she knew they were going to be important in the future.”
Lucille nodded. “The Weavers were the ones to convince the other races to return to the main continent of Athare when it turned out that the other two continents weren’t habitable at that time.”
“Why not?” Bertram asked.
“Back then none of Athare was habitable. Until the fae arrived the world was dormant, Athare was sleeping, and even though her future self had warned her what was going to happen it was hard to believe. Personally I think I would have gone back to sleep too. Once she was awake she was so focused on making sure the fae didn’t screw up when they created the Web that she didn’t think about what the new races would need. It wasn’t until we all returned to the main continent that she realised part of the problem was the lack of land we could use to grow food and that was her fault.” Lucille shrugged. “I don’t blame her to be honest. With the fae doing something so dangerous I would have been focusing on that as well.”
“I would have too,” Meriwether said. “When we were creating the Web we knew it was something that could go very wrong, but when Riordan told us it was the best way to have the magic travel from world to world there was no question that he was right, so we created it without letting ourselves worry too much.”
“Athare felt that making the whole world habitable was hassle than she could cope with right then, so she focused on the main continent, and one of the things she ended up creating at the same time was life clay, although it was less magical then.”
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Date: 2013-08-20 12:12 am (UTC)This should say either "evolved" or "did evolve" above.