[don't jinx it??????? Puts Karlach in a bulletproof glass case
It's a different refrain from her own. Not beyond imagination though. His cults probably have more push behind the propaganda. Helps to buy in when the proof is in front of your eyes. Still, the frame remains the same, mundane or magical. She's never heard of a family in that situation that came out clean. To raise your kids in it takes a special level of gall. To leave them for it, even more.
Camille shakes her head, ruminating on the cigarette.]
You're lucky you got out. Unlucky that they went all in, but... [She trails off. Thinking. Pulling another drag.] Nothing fills it in right. The holes they gouge in you, growing up. I think there's a cut off for healing a fucked up kid. You can get better, but getting "fixed" is like chasing rainbows. Can't really catch up.
I've got people looking out for me now. It helps. [She nods.] And I care for them. Don't really deserve them, frankly. As much as they do to show me I'm loved, it's coming about twenty years too late.
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It's a different refrain from her own. Not beyond imagination though. His cults probably have more push behind the propaganda. Helps to buy in when the proof is in front of your eyes. Still, the frame remains the same, mundane or magical. She's never heard of a family in that situation that came out clean. To raise your kids in it takes a special level of gall. To leave them for it, even more.
Camille shakes her head, ruminating on the cigarette.]
You're lucky you got out. Unlucky that they went all in, but... [She trails off. Thinking. Pulling another drag.] Nothing fills it in right. The holes they gouge in you, growing up. I think there's a cut off for healing a fucked up kid. You can get better, but getting "fixed" is like chasing rainbows. Can't really catch up.
I've got people looking out for me now. It helps. [She nods.] And I care for them. Don't really deserve them, frankly. As much as they do to show me I'm loved, it's coming about twenty years too late.
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[ They just left him, after all. But maybe that's just semantics. It all still follows him like a plague.
But he looks at her instead. ]
What... so that's it for you, then? You think you'll never move on?
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I'll move, but I'm carrying a few things with me.
Will you?
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I will once I have my answers.
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[Monsters and what have you.]
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I don't know.
[ Calling it the source feels wrong. ]
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[there were others with him]
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No, my quest and reasons for going to Prehevil were entirely personal.
Nobody else there was involved with me.
Just a bunch of unfortunate souls.