( There's some sort of awful parallel here, maybe. One that Peter's not quite aware of yet, at least not in the ways he will be, in time.
Because in order for him to be "ready" for the demon to become successfully housed within him, he also had to witness the loss of someone he loved deeply. It wasn't so much a technical condition, but it was... part of it. Of the ritual. The cultists made it part of the ritual. Of the act of making someone vulnerable enough to be filled up with something so powerful. It was a tricky thing, a slippery slope. Hosts before were completely destroyed in the process, accidentally made unusable.
Even if Peter doesn't know the specifics of that just yet, hearing Sasuke say what he does makes his insides feel heavy and his eyes feel moist and he's staring at the ground instead of looking at him. )
It's um, weird. How power comes from..... pain. ( Which is perhaps one of the most Emo Things he's ever said, and maybe in another time and place he'd laugh at himself for saying something like that. Not now, though. Not now that he's literally seen how it does. The people he's met here, the ones with some huge power or other.... rarely is it something that's come easily. Even in Luna's world, where magic is a norm, something witches and wizards are born with, there's such.... dark things. Things get twisted up, abused, mistreated. It's terrifying. )
I'm sorry too. For... all of that. ( Peter offers, finally looking back up. For what the other boy's been through. It's weird to stand beside somebody and know that they've suffered deeply, lost so much. He feels his own weights every day, and he feels the weights of others, and he's sorry for it all. )
Honestly I don't know how things're going to turn out with him. If he can be.... fixed, or if he even should be. But um.... it helps, knowing there's people who can... stop him if they have to. I'll have to uh, keep your number handy. ( He manages a little smile, trying to be light-hearted despite the severity of it all. Not facing things alone helps, too. )
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Because in order for him to be "ready" for the demon to become successfully housed within him, he also had to witness the loss of someone he loved deeply. It wasn't so much a technical condition, but it was... part of it. Of the ritual. The cultists made it part of the ritual. Of the act of making someone vulnerable enough to be filled up with something so powerful. It was a tricky thing, a slippery slope. Hosts before were completely destroyed in the process, accidentally made unusable.
Even if Peter doesn't know the specifics of that just yet, hearing Sasuke say what he does makes his insides feel heavy and his eyes feel moist and he's staring at the ground instead of looking at him. )
It's um, weird. How power comes from..... pain. ( Which is perhaps one of the most Emo Things he's ever said, and maybe in another time and place he'd laugh at himself for saying something like that. Not now, though. Not now that he's literally seen how it does. The people he's met here, the ones with some huge power or other.... rarely is it something that's come easily. Even in Luna's world, where magic is a norm, something witches and wizards are born with, there's such.... dark things. Things get twisted up, abused, mistreated. It's terrifying. )
I'm sorry too. For... all of that. ( Peter offers, finally looking back up. For what the other boy's been through. It's weird to stand beside somebody and know that they've suffered deeply, lost so much. He feels his own weights every day, and he feels the weights of others, and he's sorry for it all. )
Honestly I don't know how things're going to turn out with him. If he can be.... fixed, or if he even should be. But um.... it helps, knowing there's people who can... stop him if they have to. I'll have to uh, keep your number handy. ( He manages a little smile, trying to be light-hearted despite the severity of it all. Not facing things alone helps, too. )