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Really. [There's a wistful pull to the word, just on the edge of it. The only stories he got to hear were when Rezo and his crew happened to be in a village when one of the elders did a storytelling in the public square. That and drunken boastings in bars were his initiation into folk tales.]
[He'd latched on to them with everything he had. But by the time he was living his own life, no more deception hanging around his neck, he was too life-worn to believe in them any more, let alone bother reading them. It was a waste of time for someone whose ever after wouldn't be attained my something as simple as a slain dragon and a kiss.]
Stories' origins can be useful when you're looking for old artifacts.