There was a bit of a fuss when it first grew. But now...yeah, it is.
[She takes one herself, breaks it into morsels, nibbles one. It's not that she's nervous, exactly - but she's made honesty something of an art, here, and something of a calling, deliberately baring her history and her turmoil, piece by piece. It's - an endeavor, to start again cold.]
When I was four years old, a mob set fire to the inn where my family was staying. I was trapped inside, and almost died.
My father saved me. And discovered, in doing so, that he had - abilities beyond human. Considerably beyond. He could manipulate metals with his mind, among other things. He slaughtered the mob with their own pokers and pitchforks, and took us to live in a fortress in the Alps.
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[She takes one herself, breaks it into morsels, nibbles one. It's not that she's nervous, exactly - but she's made honesty something of an art, here, and something of a calling, deliberately baring her history and her turmoil, piece by piece. It's - an endeavor, to start again cold.]
When I was four years old, a mob set fire to the inn where my family was staying. I was trapped inside, and almost died.
My father saved me. And discovered, in doing so, that he had - abilities beyond human. Considerably beyond. He could manipulate metals with his mind, among other things. He slaughtered the mob with their own pokers and pitchforks, and took us to live in a fortress in the Alps.