[ The two titles are familiar to him, but they make his brow quirk lightly upward in surprise, since they're also quite recent to him. Well, not the Atharvaveda itself, but the exact translation that Matt references. ]
Ah, you are in luck! Both of those do run up against my limitations, as seeing in the future is not quite something in my skill set, but... [ He trails off with a laugh and a small shrug, but with a similar motion, a much more modern, but still leather-bound red book materializes in his hands. Compared to Chaucer, this one looks much newer, perhaps even freshly printed, since that's precisely how Sebastian remembers it. It's the first edition of Griffith's Atharvaveda, and Sebastian explains genially as he hands it off. As he expects that to be Matt's choice, he also takes a seat at this point. ]
It is only a recent interest of mine, I must admit. The world was much... smaller, I think is how I would describe it? So I do not know much of places outside the West, not comparatively. But the young master I worked for had been hosting a prince of India and his valet for quite a while. Mr. Agni and I were—
[ Here, Sebastian pauses, and the reason why would be easy to guess at being something similar to how Matt's own thoughts had turned a bit dour. It's certainly the expression he takes on briefly, though it's actually more of a confusion at the memory than anything else. To speak to it still feels odd. ]
Well, Mr. Agni and I were doing the same sort of work, so we became friends. He told me much of his beliefs and his gods, so I had been endeavoring to learn a bit about them. [ He gestures to the book ] It was only published a few years ago, as I recall.
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Ah, you are in luck! Both of those do run up against my limitations, as seeing in the future is not quite something in my skill set, but... [ He trails off with a laugh and a small shrug, but with a similar motion, a much more modern, but still leather-bound red book materializes in his hands. Compared to Chaucer, this one looks much newer, perhaps even freshly printed, since that's precisely how Sebastian remembers it. It's the first edition of Griffith's Atharvaveda, and Sebastian explains genially as he hands it off. As he expects that to be Matt's choice, he also takes a seat at this point. ]
It is only a recent interest of mine, I must admit. The world was much... smaller, I think is how I would describe it? So I do not know much of places outside the West, not comparatively. But the young master I worked for had been hosting a prince of India and his valet for quite a while. Mr. Agni and I were—
[ Here, Sebastian pauses, and the reason why would be easy to guess at being something similar to how Matt's own thoughts had turned a bit dour. It's certainly the expression he takes on briefly, though it's actually more of a confusion at the memory than anything else. To speak to it still feels odd. ]
Well, Mr. Agni and I were doing the same sort of work, so we became friends. He told me much of his beliefs and his gods, so I had been endeavoring to learn a bit about them. [ He gestures to the book ] It was only published a few years ago, as I recall.