'They might be possessing others, like yourself.'
Her brain stalled. Steam began to roll off her in sparse tendrils, her control failing as her mind tried to wrap around the ramifications of the Wolf's words. Surely he could not mean that there was a shard within her? But with each breath, he hammered home that possibility, each word brushing against that mote of truth. The breath left her lungs as her mind searched back, looking for an explanation, grasping for any proof to the contrary. Panic, wrath, confusion, loss. Her thoughts alit upon each one, a spiral of feeling that grew with each rotation.
Surely he could not mean that there was a piece of Ghilan'nain inside of her?
Had she ever only been herself? Or had there always been a piece of her Creator in her, tainting her thoughts and warping her interactions?
"I'm sorry," she gasped. "No. You must be mistaken." A desperate denial, a plea. Please let that not be true.
Her brain stalled. Steam began to roll off her in sparse tendrils, her control failing as her mind tried to wrap around the ramifications of the Wolf's words. Surely he could not mean that there was a shard within her? But with each breath, he hammered home that possibility, each word brushing against that mote of truth. The breath left her lungs as her mind searched back, looking for an explanation, grasping for any proof to the contrary. Panic, wrath, confusion, loss. Her thoughts alit upon each one, a spiral of feeling that grew with each rotation.
Surely he could not mean that there was a piece of Ghilan'nain inside of her?
Had she ever only been herself? Or had there always been a piece of her Creator in her, tainting her thoughts and warping her interactions?
"I'm sorry," she gasped. "No. You must be mistaken." A desperate denial, a plea. Please let that not be true.
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