Unfortunate is the boy who knows not his father, but glad it is indeed that still there was this priest to take you into his care and raise you to worship the gods. Well do I know that one need not share the selfsame blood to revere another as his father, for I regard noble Chiron in this manner too for all he has taught me.
[Although Achilles of course still had his father's house to which to return all the while he lived under the centaur's care. Nevertheless, he wishes to reassure the boy.]
Yet you misunderstand, for I do not suppose that I can wield such a strange craft as this, although my mother's divine blood flows through me. Men of my race learn not these gifts such that the gods might bestow upon one so blessed. The closest to godcraft we may come are the seers whose eyes have been touched by Phoebus Apollo.
I wish only to delight in the display of your skill, young Aang, beloved of Aeolus.
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[Although Achilles of course still had his father's house to which to return all the while he lived under the centaur's care. Nevertheless, he wishes to reassure the boy.]
Yet you misunderstand, for I do not suppose that I can wield such a strange craft as this, although my mother's divine blood flows through me. Men of my race learn not these gifts such that the gods might bestow upon one so blessed. The closest to godcraft we may come are the seers whose eyes have been touched by Phoebus Apollo.
I wish only to delight in the display of your skill, young Aang, beloved of Aeolus.