No, no, that's not what I meant. It's the teaching method that's different.
Before our teacher would take us on as apprentices, she took us to this little island a few miles off shore and told us that if weren't able to explain what "All is one, one is all" meant she wouldn't teach us.
[Ed shakes his head a little. His eyes soften, but he's still smiling. It's a strange look -- nostalgic and sad and maybe something a little painful, but still showing that he was very fond of this particular memory.]
She told us we had one month to figure it out and that while we were there we were strictly forbidden to use alchemy. Then she left. So my brother and I were stuck on this little piece of crap island by ourselves with nothing but the clothes on our back. It was miserable.
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Date: 2011-10-09 06:06 am (UTC)No, no, that's not what I meant. It's the teaching method that's different.
Before our teacher would take us on as apprentices, she took us to this little island a few miles off shore and told us that if weren't able to explain what "All is one, one is all" meant she wouldn't teach us.
[Ed shakes his head a little. His eyes soften, but he's still smiling. It's a strange look -- nostalgic and sad and maybe something a little painful, but still showing that he was very fond of this particular memory.]
She told us we had one month to figure it out and that while we were there we were strictly forbidden to use alchemy. Then she left. So my brother and I were stuck on this little piece of crap island by ourselves with nothing but the clothes on our back. It was miserable.