[She looks up when he does and smiles sympathetically. Share for share? It's all she can offer but for condolences.]
The witchwoman Magretha found me when I was young, a toddler, perhaps two? I couldn't remember anything about my parents or my home- only my name and that of Amaranth. She took me in. I earned my keep around her home and by beginning my lessons as soon as I was old enough to remember the day's work.
When I was six, there was an accident. [She gulps and looks down.] A fire. I tried to save her, but it was too late. By the time I pulled her out, she was gone. That was the first time I was ever called a demon. The man who started the fire, Moncriith, claimed that Magretha had bewitched his father to join her that evening, to... come together as man and woman. He came to kill her but hadn't known his father would be trapped as well. He said that my evil was brought to life by the fact that I chose to try to save a witch like Magretha rather than his father, and that he could see me for what I was.
[She looks back up at Rafael then] I was not as strong as you. I ran. Amaranth and I were alone in the world, running for as long as I can remember.
You lost yourself to anger. I lost myself to fear. But the past is not what matters, only the present. We can make better choices now.
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The witchwoman Magretha found me when I was young, a toddler, perhaps two? I couldn't remember anything about my parents or my home- only my name and that of Amaranth. She took me in. I earned my keep around her home and by beginning my lessons as soon as I was old enough to remember the day's work.
When I was six, there was an accident. [She gulps and looks down.] A fire. I tried to save her, but it was too late. By the time I pulled her out, she was gone. That was the first time I was ever called a demon. The man who started the fire, Moncriith, claimed that Magretha had bewitched his father to join her that evening, to... come together as man and woman. He came to kill her but hadn't known his father would be trapped as well. He said that my evil was brought to life by the fact that I chose to try to save a witch like Magretha rather than his father, and that he could see me for what I was.
[She looks back up at Rafael then] I was not as strong as you. I ran. Amaranth and I were alone in the world, running for as long as I can remember.
You lost yourself to anger. I lost myself to fear. But the past is not what matters, only the present. We can make better choices now.