I showed up in some... kind of place. It felt holy, but it wasn't like the temples I'm used to. I met up with Viktor and Harley, and then we were transported to a town where our memories were altered. I thought I grew up as an orphan who did jobs and requests for someone we called Father.
We had to fight. monsters that looked like people we knew before we could touch him. [ ... ] It's where we were all together. We all kept on being separated somehow before that.
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she holds the bao in her hands, as if cradling it, not eating it yet. ]
I can breathe normally now.
[ physically, she's fine. emotionally, she's still processing. ]
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He nods.]
That's good. [It's a start, anyway.] Could you tell me what happened?
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We had to look for a treasure.
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...Carefully--]
Was there a "Mother" as well?
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she shakes her head. ]
In that town, there was only a Father. [ .... ] I think it was connected to Throné's memories.
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I thought as much. [He lightly taps his own neck; he'd recognized one of Viktor's collars.]
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she touches her own neck and nods. ]
There was another horrible man at the very end who also spoke to us like he was our father.
[ she grimaces. ]
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Her grimace is so valid, though. He kind of wants to, too, but he doesn't.]
What did you have to do to get past him?
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In the town--or was there something else, too?
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There was some kind of... creature at the end of the forest.
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A creature... did it attack you?
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[ or at least that's what she thinks. ]
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It was more finding a way to defeat it than anything else that was difficult.