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[gautsome]

[There's no vibrant smile when Sylvain opens the line. There isn't even a Sylvain for that matter. It's just text on a screen, a message carefully tapped out.]

Hey.
I'm looking to talk to someone who has left this place and come back again. Either actually leaving, or just that weird sleeping thing.
I... Have some questions. I could really use some help.

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[gautsome]

Yeah, uh... Let's just say I know people that know people with religious trauma and... Most of them aren't "good." But I guess decades ago would help?

[Sylvain makes a note to himself: Don't fuck with Cecil.]

[paladinlost]

Ah, I must have miswritten the circumstances. There was no religion involved; she summoned us to war endlessly in her stead, grew attached to us, chose to defy the cycle and the system in order to free us from her world, and died in order to do so. We did not worship her, nor did she ever ask us to, but we always valued her advice and her attempts to counsel up.

Besides, she chose warriors as her champions. We'd all seen worse before, even the children.