It was myself, Vanya, and Lan Zhan attending, but let me recall...
There was she, holding back and up the waters so that he could reach the body held at the lake's low point. The whole lake was a nightmare, people found themselves in it from the night prior, I remember that along with the callings I warded against in the nights, but that's neither here nor there.
She held the waters back, he went down, he desecrated the body to a final death, returning to shore. He dropped the sword, uncleansed, and Lan Zhan and I saw to what needed doing after. Something about him shifted then. His paranoid tendencies exacerbated, after that, ah? Truly I have long wondered at what curse fell on him for disrupting Anurr's vengeance against that dead man, but memory loss alone, I don't think that's the full of it.
Still! There's a tale told from my end, I would ask for Lan Zhan's recollection as well, then Five's in comparison. You can tell him why. About the curse, that is, but I'm not sure you need to say you feel comfortable around him with his actions taken against you.
Considering that thing kept me hostage my first night here, perhaps I'll approach him and ask about this under the guise of wanting to know more about the body itself.
I'm wondering if it wasn't something that happened to him in Taravast. Do you recall anything Five involved himself with while we were there? Perhaps around the time of Vanya's disappearance from our group?
It's...complicated. He helped me rescue Eleven, and I'm grateful for that. We've spoken to some extent since then, amiably, and I've gotten the impression he's not trying to murder me specifically, so - that's nice, isn't it?
He's very smart, and he can get things done, and that is very helpful.
I don't, but what I do: have his sister, Allison, ask him about the hand mirror he broke.
Not you, Lily. His sister.
He's smart, resourceful, paranoid, and capable of great harm and great good. The pragmatism he shows is reliable, as long as your survival to him is likewise.
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There was she, holding back and up the waters so that he could reach the body held at the lake's low point. The whole lake was a nightmare, people found themselves in it from the night prior, I remember that along with the callings I warded against in the nights, but that's neither here nor there.
She held the waters back, he went down, he desecrated the body to a final death, returning to shore. He dropped the sword, uncleansed, and Lan Zhan and I saw to what needed doing after. Something about him shifted then. His paranoid tendencies exacerbated, after that, ah? Truly I have long wondered at what curse fell on him for disrupting Anurr's vengeance against that dead man, but memory loss alone, I don't think that's the full of it.
Still! There's a tale told from my end, I would ask for Lan Zhan's recollection as well, then Five's in comparison. You can tell him why. About the curse, that is, but I'm not sure you need to say you feel comfortable around him with his actions taken against you.
Do you?
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I'm wondering if it wasn't something that happened to him in Taravast. Do you recall anything Five involved himself with while we were there? Perhaps around the time of Vanya's disappearance from our group?
It's...complicated. He helped me rescue Eleven, and I'm grateful for that. We've spoken to some extent since then, amiably, and I've gotten the impression he's not trying to murder me specifically, so - that's nice, isn't it?
He's very smart, and he can get things done, and that is very helpful.
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Not you, Lily. His sister.
He's smart, resourceful, paranoid, and capable of great harm and great good. The pragmatism he shows is reliable, as long as your survival to him is likewise.
So have his sister ask.