[ Basch shakes his head, more self-conscious than anything. ] I'm not much of a scholar, and certainly not a historian or a theologian, even less a philosopher. But I do think real stories of larger than life beings have a way of growing over time.

It would seem there was some truth to ours. I saw a few of the beings the tales were based on by sheer luck, or maybe lack thereof.

I do like learning the stories of a place though.

[ It had helped, when he'd lost his home, to learn his new one. ]