[Ah. So this is about feeding an Entity. It never would have occurred to Caitlyn that someone who works with ADI would try to do that. Not deliberately. Not to this degree. Which Entity is it, then? This all seems designed to twist Caitlyn's relationship with her family, to... corrupt it, destroy it. The Corruption, perhaps, or the Desolation. From what Caitlyn's read of the Entities, it could be the Lonely or the Stranger.
I take things... The Desolation?
She can't help her mind beginning to spin in an attempt to figure out which Entity is at play here, but she also knows that's not the most important thing.
It's what I am. Caitlyn grew up in the same circles she imagines Aelwyn did; the veneer of wealth and gentility barely covering the the greed, the manipulations, the backbiting; the overwhelming pressure to look and speak and behave a certain way; the recrimination for failure to conform to the narrow box in which one is expected to fit. So is what Aelwyn says about herself true? Or is it merely the box in which she's been put?
Caitlyn would very much like to say something petty and biting about Aelwyn being either a servant of the Entities or choosing the most moronic way imaginable to fight them. But instead, she bites her tongue - and, momentarily, her lower lip - and tries a different approach.]
This doesn't have to be what you are. Not if you don't want it to be.
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I take things... The Desolation?
She can't help her mind beginning to spin in an attempt to figure out which Entity is at play here, but she also knows that's not the most important thing.
It's what I am. Caitlyn grew up in the same circles she imagines Aelwyn did; the veneer of wealth and gentility barely covering the the greed, the manipulations, the backbiting; the overwhelming pressure to look and speak and behave a certain way; the recrimination for failure to conform to the narrow box in which one is expected to fit. So is what Aelwyn says about herself true? Or is it merely the box in which she's been put?
Caitlyn would very much like to say something petty and biting about Aelwyn being either a servant of the Entities or choosing the most moronic way imaginable to fight them. But instead, she bites her tongue - and, momentarily, her lower lip - and tries a different approach.]
This doesn't have to be what you are. Not if you don't want it to be.