UN: 6234-01 (sometime after the Herald battle)

[thaumatrope]

[They don't know why they turn to the network for this. But there's many people in Daybreak so maybe they can give Adriel the right answer.]

I read in a book that if someone's hurt and trapped, you should let them go.

Is that the right answer? Letting them go?

[Something boils in them for phrasing this as something Adriel simply read in a book. And they themself don't know why they're lying. But it's the only way.]

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[thaumatrope]

They wouldn't

[Wouldn't do that to them? But they know full well that the anger the other person inside of them feels is genuine. It's like a forest fire that rages on and on, despite the attempts to put it out. Adriel has a feeling that it's still going purely out of sheer spite at this point.

It hurts, and it hurts to think that their family might be the cause of it. That they took someone and hurt them until nothing but that pain and anger survived, and then put them away inside of Adriel. They know what binds this person.

Spells so nobody would notice them. Spells to make sure that person remained forgotten.]

I'm sorry I'm scaring you, Sira. I promise I won't anymore.

[emergensirations]

That's not it, Adriel.
Please.

[They can't. They can't play the game anymore.]

I just don't want you to be hurt.
You're my friend. I love you.
I'm scared for YOU.

[thaumatrope]

It'll be okay, Sira. I promise it will.

I love you too.

[emergensirations]

[Their hosts never lied to them. Their hosts couldn't lie to them.

But Adriel was not a host.]

Can I see you?
Please.

[thaumatrope]

Of course. I'll come see you.