𝐓𝐄𝐗𝐓𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐎𝐌 𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓

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what a month! this is texts from last night.
(meme threads aren't game canon, but they're not not game canon either, right)

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[rakta]

i would not either. that is an easy choice to make.

he does. i seek him, in time, when i am strong enough.

[godspark]

then you'll give him the end he deserves. i understand.

how old were you?

[rakta]

i will.

i was seventy.

[godspark]

[ ... ]

oh. of course, you're a shifter. how old are you now?

[rakta]

i was an elven fae first. i am now 153.

[godspark]

i have never heard of an elven fae. is that young?

[ she sounds young, he thinks, but he's like thirty. context seems important. ]

[rakta]

if there was a comparison to be made, i would be late teens, perhaps, in the year of a human.

[godspark]

[ yeah that tracks. ]

then you were a child when your mother was taken.

i hope you find this man.

what about your father, did you know him?

[rakta]

the mother who was killed adopted me. she had no husband of her own.

my trueborn parents cast me out, and i care not what they do.

[godspark]

they cast you out. why would they do that?

[rakta]

my soul was taken in bargain by the unseelie queen.

[godspark]

in bargain? but you were a child how could you make a bargain like that

[rakta]

[ ???? unfathomable questions for her ]

i sought one with her general, and in her anger she took it from him and me

[godspark]

you sought what with her general. a bargain?

[rakta]

yes. a bargain, for power.

[godspark]

magic? to shift, or something else?

[rakta]

magic, for strength. because i wished to be strong. i was druid already, before the bargain was made.

[godspark]

but you did not realise the cost

there is always a cost. i know of no unseelie queen, but she sounds much like the witches that i know too well. magic is never free.

[rakta]

i was prepared to bargain with kannoth. she stole my bargain from him.

[godspark]

did she give you what you asked for?

[rakta]

she gave me magic, and she gave me my curse.

[godspark]

and it was this curse that caused your family to cast you out

[rakta]

in part. my hands were black as the sin of seeking an unseelie, our enemy.

[godspark]

oh.

why do it, then, why seek the aid of an enemy? could no powerful witch of your own people offer the strength you needed?

[rakta]

no. not the kind that i wanted. i was ambitious, and i craved it more than air.