[It's tempting to leave it at that, deliciously absurdity, but curiosity drives him to move the conversation forward.]
It could have been anyone. This someone who did not know you, or a theoretical soul like myself.
In truth, the summoner does not always know that they are summoning. If a village is under assault, for example, its people may pray and yearn for a valiant protector and, lo, aether forms into a heroic deity, shaped by their earnest longing. All without them knowing.
This mysterious friend of yours may have felt anxious about death and in her desire to know it better, brought you--this you--into being.
[After saying this he watches Ryoji closely. The boy's calm reactions do seem to further prove his claim of being an avatar. Typical mortals are not hard to drive into a state of existential crisis. Fandaniel's already caused a few such crises in people just by talking to them about much more mundane topics.]
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[Fandaniel cackles and slaps his knee.]
Well, there you have it!
A dog summoned you.
[It's tempting to leave it at that, deliciously absurdity, but curiosity drives him to move the conversation forward.]
It could have been anyone. This someone who did not know you, or a theoretical soul like myself.
In truth, the summoner does not always know that they are summoning. If a village is under assault, for example, its people may pray and yearn for a valiant protector and, lo, aether forms into a heroic deity, shaped by their earnest longing. All without them knowing.
This mysterious friend of yours may have felt anxious about death and in her desire to know it better, brought you--this you--into being.
[After saying this he watches Ryoji closely. The boy's calm reactions do seem to further prove his claim of being an avatar. Typical mortals are not hard to drive into a state of existential crisis. Fandaniel's already caused a few such crises in people just by talking to them about much more mundane topics.]