a question of anthropological import

[divineshadow]

FORM: Sending crystal
SENDER: The Priest
RECIPIENT: e v e r y o n e
WHAT: your weird cultural practices: explain them
WHEN: waggles hand; pre-Tevinter, perhaps
WHERE: whereveer
NOTES: pre-emptive warning for Priest's weird and offensive opinions about societal organization

Inquisition.

[The voice is hard to place, neither male nor female, lingering oddly over the syllables of the word--considering. An Inquisition, proper noun. What a thing.]

Your cities are infested with beasts. You keep them in comfort and guard jealously their welfare. A caste among you even exists to care for them.

Explain this.

Comments

[divineshadow]

[Divine Shadow, who watch over all the darks and deeps and tread between the dying stars--

If the Priest had not seen cats before to know exactly how small they are, this would be cause for considerably more alarm.]

Surely it is not so comfortable as a bedwarmer without claws.

[A male might have his eccentricities but this is weird.]