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There are ways of being inducted into the practices, those esoteric traditions that predate computers, cell phones, industry, and even paper and bronze. Make the right deals, learn the right words to say or symbols to write down, and you can make the wind listen to you, exchange your skin for that of a serpent, or call forth the sorts of monsters that appear in horror movies. One of the common ways is to be born to it. These words that bring forth nightmares and these symbols that speak to the wind are the product of centuries of deals being made, repeated until they become expectations and assumptions, provided the person has been awakened to that world and made the necessary agreements. Families are very good at keeping these traditions going, establishing that repetition, and ensuring that each successive generation is appropriately awoken and given everything they need. But the drawback to that is having to deal with family, and old families have their own problems. The second

There are ways of being inducted into the practices, those esoteric traditions that predate computers, cell phones, industry, and even paper and bronze. Make the right deals, learn the right words to say or symbols to write down, and you can make the wind listen to you, exchange your skin for that of a serpent, or call forth the sorts of monsters that appear in horror movies. One of the common ways is to be born to it. These words that bring forth nightmares and these symbols that speak to the wind are the product of centuries of deals being made, repeated until they become expectations and as

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