multi-stage masquerade, and motives
Aug. 7th, 2016 11:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marycatelliWas pondering the possibility of different kinds of magical beings hiding themselves from the mundane -- and each other -- and realized that a selective withdrawal did not have to mean hiding from each other.
Suppose dragons left first. Jealous about their treasure, big and easy to find -- hiding would be prudent. Then, perhaps, leprechauns decide their gold would be best protected the same way. Then selkies decide that it's foolish to expose themselves to peril -- after all, they suffer far worse when their skins are stolen than dragons or leprechaun do from the loss of their gold. . . .
As it progressed, it might turn into pressure on the hold-outs, who provide evidence of a magical world if not of the precise beings hiding. Or they might threaten to hide from the hold-outs as well. But if they responded to pressure, they could all hide away in one big happy magical world, without doing it in one swoop.
Suppose dragons left first. Jealous about their treasure, big and easy to find -- hiding would be prudent. Then, perhaps, leprechauns decide their gold would be best protected the same way. Then selkies decide that it's foolish to expose themselves to peril -- after all, they suffer far worse when their skins are stolen than dragons or leprechaun do from the loss of their gold. . . .
As it progressed, it might turn into pressure on the hold-outs, who provide evidence of a magical world if not of the precise beings hiding. Or they might threaten to hide from the hold-outs as well. But if they responded to pressure, they could all hide away in one big happy magical world, without doing it in one swoop.