Aarne knows this isn't easy for others, even the other Nordic peoples in his own band took time to get it down.

"The basic difference is to us, everything alive has a spirit capable of interacting with us and alive is more broadly defined. The world is more vivid and alive spiritually than it is for some other cultures." He gently patted Mordred's shoulder; friendly, gentle, and accepting when he notices the nervous sort of actions. "I was born into these beliefs. I'm a native speaker of the practice. I might not always understand yours either because I would be learning about a new language and a new view of everything around us and inside of us."

Aarne has a spiritual openness from his long life of interacting very personally with those beliefs and at times wearing them like a shield.