[The ugliest of things flares through her, then: sympathy, uninvited. It's followed quickly by her own distaste. It would seem it was a sympathy she didn't want to experience.]
We could hope that he's as weakened as the rest of us and act before he regains his footing. That's a gamble.
[When they first met the otter, she knew he was neither possessed nor demonic in nature. There are many more things than that that exist outside the boundaries of the world, though, and should not be allowed to.]
Instead you'd break a cycle before it began... things do get stranger every time around. [She knows that, somehow, more intimately than she feels she should. Unlike the other feelings, which sink into the delicate, detached fabric of her communion like vapor into clouds, this confusion lingers a little longer, ill-fitting, a question that doesn't fit.]
... In that, you are, as you say, a pragmatic man.
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We could hope that he's as weakened as the rest of us and act before he regains his footing. That's a gamble.
[When they first met the otter, she knew he was neither possessed nor demonic in nature. There are many more things than that that exist outside the boundaries of the world, though, and should not be allowed to.]
Instead you'd break a cycle before it began... things do get stranger every time around. [She knows that, somehow, more intimately than she feels she should. Unlike the other feelings, which sink into the delicate, detached fabric of her communion like vapor into clouds, this confusion lingers a little longer, ill-fitting, a question that doesn't fit.]
... In that, you are, as you say, a pragmatic man.