ass ; kate

[toxicate]

dusty..............

Comments

[sootprints]

[ todomatsu suffers so much and only deserves some of it...

but anyway, another wind comes along and they are subjected to a memory of kate sneaking into the Shadows House. ]

[toxicate]

[ oh. hm. that somehow wasn't what he expected of her origins at all. mordalion observes with a tilt to his head... there's a lot happening here. morphs, like shapeshifters? and a house overrun with them.

and kate, who isn't quite the same? ]

You were risking a lot to blend in, weren't you?

[sootprints]

... I thought that if I went there, I would find the truth of what I am.

Looking back, it was really reckless...

[toxicate]

Reckless, yes. Wandering into unknown territory usually is.

Did you find your answers, eventually?

[sootprints]

... Not entirely. But I think I learned some more important things than that.

There are things that I need to do... that only I can do.

[toxicate]

[ considers her quietly for a moment. ]

Do you have allies? Friends, that can help you with this?

[sootprints]

[ there's a nod. but some soot rises from her head as she answers. ]

... Yes. Some...

[toxicate]

...do you not want to talk about them?

[sootprints]

... I gained a lot of allies. I spent weeks building trust with people around me, working my way up in that twisted aristocratic system, trying to free people from the powers that controlled them...

But everything I worked for was lost in an instant.