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Though, comes with it the difficult task of confronting your own duality nature; half-aquatic creature and half-human. You hate the land dwellers and want to destroy them, yet in a way you are them. When mother conceived of you it was done in anger and desperation, rather than wisdom and harmony. Troubles you inherited, though never had to deal with before when she was still around... but now?
<span class="mu-b">"What about where you come from? That nation of yours, and your people?"</span>
<span class="mu-s">"...what are you meaning? This land, al-Allusaan is our home. We all are of the same people."</span>
Another difficulty you run up against, is Farhana's belief that these lands are hers, and these wars are just rebellions. Or that Emil's people are hostile invaders stealing back land that no longer belongs to them. Part of it has to do with her secluded background and limited knowledge of the conflicts at hand, but most of it is the sentiment she shares with others of her people you've met. After enough time here, being born here same as their grandparents and more, they aren't invaders. They are home, and so asking about their people, is about as much as asking Emil about his people. At least though you can glean, that her understanding is similar to that of the merchant's, that their nation is in a decline although they believe it temporary.
With some thinking however you can change your questioning, and make a distinction between people and culture, which she most definitely understands. And to that, you can learn a fair amount from her about Almhorad culture, their customs and ways. Not something you really care about all that much, but of noble etiquette she can make it somewhat interesting with artistic ways of speaking. At least as cultured as your exposure to Atlantis, so the humans certainly haven't lessened in that regard since your time imprisoned. The biggest matter which concerns you however is religion, and the strange current trend of human societies favoring and following only one deity. Unlike civilizations from your time which had pantheons and various arrays of gods, humans today culturally have a single god they devote themselves to, and all others are regarded as inferior or false. It may be different in other parts of the world, but for this continent and the two adjoining ones, it holds true for the majority of all.
These details, which seemed minor at first, but gradually gain importance the more you dwell on them. Since it may have something to do with your own goddess, it concerns you deeply. The possibility that, if humans abandoned any faith in mother, then she may finally have actually drowned for good! A harrowing thought, since you know even from your own time that gods can perish, same as any human just in their own uniquely divine ways.
