Wavering resolve

Emlyn's face drained of color, and Cattleya looked startled as well. Audrey turned curiously to Neph and asked:

"Miss Pure White, is this the opportunity you mentioned for Mr. Moon to become a woman?"

"Actually, he might have a better chance of becoming female if he switched to an adjacent pathway." Neph blinked. "By the way, Mr. Moon, I have a suggestion for your acting as a Potions Professor."

"What?" Emlyn asked instinctively.

"You could change your name to Severus Snape," Neph suggested in all sincerity. "That was the name of a very famous Potions Professor in the past."

"..." Klein made the World glance at her, signaling for her to rein it in.

"I've never heard that name," Emlyn said after carefully searching his memory.

Even if you had, it wouldn't help, would it? Surely the acting method isn't just a matter of changing your name, Audrey mused before asking another question:

"The different sequences of the Moon pathway don't seem to have any necessary connection?"

Cattleya answered her question:

"The different sequences within a pathway don't necessarily have to be related, or at least not on the surface. Their shared trait is that they all fall within the domains of the god corresponding to that pathway. For example, the Moon represents spirituality, plants, beauty, part of life, part of darkness, and part of the uncanny. So this pathway has Apothecaries in the domain of plants, Vampires in the domain of life, and Beast Tamers at the intersection of life and spirituality."

"Sanguine!" Emlyn stressed, raising his chin slightly. "That must be why we Sanguine are all so handsome and beautiful."

No, that's not true. All the vampires I've seen were disgusting, all of them were... Derrick quietly objected inwardly. *Hmm, so this is Madam Hermit's explanation? Neph said