Chapter 55: Truth
With Felihill's patronage, Rafa demonstrated his sartorial skills in the backyard that would make all the women present feel ashamed.
"Isn't it just sewing a hot air balloon, what's so difficult?" he had to do it himself for fear that others wouldn't quite understand the specific dimensions and steps.
He first selected a number of extremely fine silks from Philisier's collection, as well as some slightly inferior fabrics, arranged and cut them according to a certain layout, and then folded them together for fine sewing.
Rafa had never used a needle and thread, but with the blessing of Xingyin, his body's sensitivity and observation have been greatly improved, and threading needles and threads is never a problem.
The rough iron needle immediately became agile when it reached his hand, constantly flying up and down, accurately moving between the silk and the cloth, and piercing it head-on, without groping for him, he knew that it was worn out from that position, and the seemingly tangled cloth felt clear to him.
Felihill sat at the familiar table, looking carefully at the drawings that Lafaxin had given her, which depicted many amazing new weapons, which should not have been so difficult to defend Icefield City if they had appeared earlier, but the appearance of these things had been greatly delayed due to the cold war between them for several days, so that until now, the cold war between the two had inexplicably ended, and the drawings had just fallen into her hands.
She sometimes thinks that she is too naΓ―ve to treat Rafa coldly for a reason that seems a little ridiculous, but fortunately such a tense atmosphere was dissipated by Rafa's cup of tea, otherwise she herself would not know how to open up to ease relations, and the cold war between the two might continue for a while.
Glancing at Rafa lying on the ground with his arms flying, Felihill felt that he was actually a very easy person to see, although he often came up with some strange ideas and did some strange things, but he really didn't have any big scheming, and he was not a complicated person.
He was just a smart man, an unruly man, an easy-talking man, and an irreplaceable man.
"Bring it and I'll help you. β
Perhaps seeing that Rafa's progress was too slow, Felihill put down the drawings in his hand and said to Rafa.
"Fili, you will do the same?" he expressed his suspicion of the female popularity of a noble lady like Filihill.
"I didn't expect you to question me so much. Rather than a dull compliment, Felihill was not disgusted by Rafa's ridicule.
"Uh... All right. β
With that, Rafa got up from the ground and began to explain to Felihill how to sew it.
"You think of it as a October melon with a hole on the top of the head and an unsealed bottom. β
The October melon is a melon that is abundant in the south of Ola, with a large upper part and a small lower part, and in order to make her understand it better, Rafa had to make some inappropriate analogies.
Felihill soon understood what Rafa meant, and asked Heda, who was smelting the steel plates, to make her a slightly larger iron needle, sat down on a chair and put her knees together, put the cloth and silk on her knees, and began to sew them.
Seeing that Felicille had two stitches, Rafa was sure that she was absolutely reliable, so she stopped worrying and continued to lie on the ground and sew.
Since the witches all have their own business, and Elle and Hedda are making steel in the courtyard not far away, there are only three people in this courtyard, Rafa and Felisil Audair, and Rafa can't stand the silence the most, so he can't help but speak.
"Fili, do you know what the highest point in the sky looks like?"
There was a strange contrast between Rafa, who was lying on the ground, and Felicier, who was sitting dignifiedly, but neither of them seemed to care, Rafa did not regard himself as a prince, and Felicille did not regard himself as a noblewoman who had to abide by aristocratic etiquette.
"The church says that the end of the sky is God's dwelling...... but we all know it," she looked up and pinned a strand of loose hair to her ear, "There is no god in this world, so God's dwelling place is also a lie." β
"It's a lie. Rafa didn't look up, put down the finished part, and began to work on the next part, "The sky is actually the same as you see, empty, with neither immortals nor gods. β
"Why are you so sure? Have you been? with this thing we're making?" Phililiscille was never disappointed with what Rafa knew.
"I haven't been there, and I can't fly that high with this thing we made, it's very cold in the sky, if it weren't for the Flame Witch, I'm afraid I'd be frozen to death. β
"Why do you know if you haven't been?" Philicille had completely dismissed Rafa's claim that he had read a strange book.
Rafa, who was lying on the ground, was stunned for a moment, and then paused before saying, "Hmm...... I just know anyway. β
"If it weren't for me, I'm afraid no one would have believed you. β
Rafa raised an eyebrow, "But what I say is the truth, just as men cannot have children, only hens can lay eggs, everybody knows it's true, but how many people can explain why this is the case? People are just so accustomed to the facts that they ignore the laws of things themselves, so that they who are not good at thinking are ruled by the church that explains these phenomena indiscriminately." β
"I agree with the idea that the church is nonsense, but can you explain these laws?" Phililischer didn't seem to care that Audrey was on the side, and directly said something disparaging about the church.
"Fili, in this world, except for the magic of witches, the laws of everything are traceable, and their essence is not complicated. β
"Oh? Felihill was interested again, and if she hadn't been busy in her hands, she would have taken out her notebook, but now she could only remember it in her head, and then she would write it down silently.
"Well, I think about it," he said after running out of a long thread, "for example...... Do you know what the stars in the sky are?"
"Stars?" This is indeed a question worth thinking about, Felihill stopped what she was doing and began to think carefully, but after thinking for a long time, she really couldn't think of any other explanation other than the explanation that the stars in the church's "Nerves" were various gods, "I don't know, you say." β
"You can simply think of them as suns, but they are so far away from us that we can't feel their heat, we can only see the light they emit, spanning hundreds of millions of years, and the stars twinkle not because the sun is twinkling, but because the air temperature in our sky is different, the light will be deflected, so we will see the stars twinkle and twinkle." β
After saying a long list, Rafa didn't know if Feliscil understood, but he was sure that Audair certainly didn't, because he knew by looking at her dazed face.
"You mean...... The sun's rays were emitted eons of eons ago?"
"That's right, every glimmer of starlight we see now comes from the pre-primeval years, maybe the sun has long since been annihilated, and his light has just reached our eyes, and even the sun we usually see, its light will take a while to reach the earth where we are. With that, Rafa unconsciously looked up at the sky, but unfortunately, it was not dark yet, and it was cloudy today.
"What the hell is the sun?" Felihill felt like he was dismantling the so-called "truth" of the church.
"The sun, it's a star, huh...... You can simply think of it as a big fireball, a fireball hundreds of millions of times larger than Heddah's fireball the other day, and the earth we are on is actually very similar to the sun, a planet similar to a sphere," he said more and more, and ran to Philicon's feet, gradually raised two stones, and began to compare, "The sun is not moving, but the earth we are on is revolving around the sun, and the earth itself is constantly rotating, which is also the reason for the alternation of night and the change of seasons. β
After speaking, he raised his head and looked at Philicon, who was also staring at him.
Felihill was obviously surprised and couldn't say anything for a long time, but apart from her slightly furrowed brow, she looked no different than usual, and this was probably her last reserve.
"Hehe, you're scared, aren't you? But don't be surprised, if you think about it, the clever Fili will figure it out. Smiling, he fell back on his stomach.
"If you dare to say to the church that the sun god they worship is a fireball, they will not hesitate to send the Inquisition to destroy you. "Felihill really wanted to get into Rafa's mind and see what secrets he was hiding.
"It's only a matter of time before we say it or not, as long as we have enough strength, sooner or later it will be our turn to rewrite the rules. β
Rafa lay on the ground, doing the needlework that only a woman does, and said the most heroic words in the world.