I won't be. Kirkwall is a pit, especially the Gallows, but I've been here for long enough not to just fall apart the minute a Demon shows me something...awful. Or wonderful.
[He shifts a little, sliding one hand out to put it over Adasse's, a comforting pressure.]
I don't want to lie to you... it does happen. The clan that used to camp here? Their Keeper— you hear stories. Usually, if a mage becomes possessed by something bad, it's the duty of the clan to kill the thing they turn into. [It's a terrible, yawning chasm of a thought; the idea of asking Adasse to do such a thing. But then Sorrel remembers the truth and the vice eases off his lungs. He breathes, a deep-deep sigh.] That's Beleth's job, if it ever came to that. She knows me, knows, what needs to be done. We talked about it.
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[He shifts a little, sliding one hand out to put it over Adasse's, a comforting pressure.]
I don't want to lie to you... it does happen. The clan that used to camp here? Their Keeper— you hear stories. Usually, if a mage becomes possessed by something bad, it's the duty of the clan to kill the thing they turn into. [It's a terrible, yawning chasm of a thought; the idea of asking Adasse to do such a thing. But then Sorrel remembers the truth and the vice eases off his lungs. He breathes, a deep-deep sigh.] That's Beleth's job, if it ever came to that. She knows me, knows, what needs to be done. We talked about it.