Adela shook her head, still not quite understanding what he meant but trying to see if it was perhaps something she wasn't meant to understand then and there, "There is no such being, not who would have such power as to make such prayer a reality. The closest thing to that would be Nautilus itself, and... It does not always keep us safe. It may offer protections and kindness, but by the same coin it offers mischief and dangerous trials. It, at one point, was like any of us, but it ascended into a greater being and became what it is. Its ability to bend the world is greater than anyone wakened's as a result."
A beat, and she added, "So far as I know, however, it is not the source of our ability to bend. It is something everyone inherently has and is a skill that needs to be mastered, like any other. It is certainly powerful enough to temporarily weaken or disable our bending among other things, but it cannot remove the ability permanently."
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Adela shook her head, still not quite understanding what he meant but trying to see if it was perhaps something she wasn't meant to understand then and there, "There is no such being, not who would have such power as to make such prayer a reality. The closest thing to that would be Nautilus itself, and... It does not always keep us safe. It may offer protections and kindness, but by the same coin it offers mischief and dangerous trials. It, at one point, was like any of us, but it ascended into a greater being and became what it is. Its ability to bend the world is greater than anyone wakened's as a result."
A beat, and she added, "So far as I know, however, it is not the source of our ability to bend. It is something everyone inherently has and is a skill that needs to be mastered, like any other. It is certainly powerful enough to temporarily weaken or disable our bending among other things, but it cannot remove the ability permanently."