Weird stuff was putting it mildly. Super mildly. He can't fault it, though. It's hard enough, showing up in this world. Harder still when there's a weight of history behind it - even more, he imagines, when people tell you it's not your first time here.
"The girl was Julia Sodder. We didn't know her full name for a long time. I think... a friend of mine found out." Diarmuid, with his scrying bowl and good heart. "All we knew, at first, was she was a kid with incredible powers she couldn't control..."
He trails off, sitting up straighter, gaze turning unfocused for a moment. A long moment. That first October, the scream on the network, the real horrors unleashed. Mother Superior looming out of the dark, cold and luminous and yellow eyes glowing -
No, that wasn't her. She'd been a lot of things, but not that.
A steadying breath.
"And she was being held captive in a lab on the mountain. Experimented on."
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Weird stuff was putting it mildly. Super mildly. He can't fault it, though. It's hard enough, showing up in this world. Harder still when there's a weight of history behind it - even more, he imagines, when people tell you it's not your first time here.
"The girl was Julia Sodder. We didn't know her full name for a long time. I think... a friend of mine found out." Diarmuid, with his scrying bowl and good heart. "All we knew, at first, was she was a kid with incredible powers she couldn't control..."
He trails off, sitting up straighter, gaze turning unfocused for a moment. A long moment. That first October, the scream on the network, the real horrors unleashed. Mother Superior looming out of the dark, cold and luminous and yellow eyes glowing -
No, that wasn't her. She'd been a lot of things, but not that.
A steadying breath.
"And she was being held captive in a lab on the mountain. Experimented on."