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[emulation]

How d'you know if you're cursed?

[a pause. She's been hearing voices in her head and she doesn't know why - all she knows is that they're telling her to do bad things. Very, very bad things.

(Someone forgot she's possessed.)]

I think I'm going crazy. I can't sleep, a-and - I'm kinda really scared I might do something.

I can't make it stop.

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[emulation]

Not working.

[17thcenturyboy]

What if we made up stories about them? If they were say, murderers surely you wouldn't feel bad...

[emulation]

Well - murderers belong in jail. It's not up to me to hurt them.

[17thcenturyboy]

You do so remind me of someone I used to know. [ his hand balls into a fist then opens again - it isn't anger, but some other buried emotion. ]

[emulation]

Let me guess - you didn't like the other person.

[17thcenturyboy]

Oh no, quite the contrary. He was my best friend. [ it's said sweetly but there's something dark there lurking just under the surface. until he betrayed me. until he proved to me i could never be a good man. ]

[emulation]

... Oh. So you just disagreed on a lot of stuff?

[she's quick to assume stuff.]

[17thcenturyboy]

You're very astute. [ it's not really mockery, just a bland statement accompanied by an eyebrow-raise. ]

[emulation]

It's really not that hard to guess. You look like the type who disagrees with a lot of people, even the ones you like.

[17thcenturyboy]

Perhaps especially those. [ idly studies his nails on one hand. ] I appreciate those who think for themselves.

[emulation]

They can think for themselves and still think the same things you do.

[17thcenturyboy]

Well, yes, and while that would be ideal... Everyone can't simply agree, can they?
That would be so dreadfully boring.

[emulation]

Of course not. Then we wouldn't have debate class.

[and Katie so does love to prove she's right.]

[17thcenturyboy]

[ a light snort, okay. touche, little girl. ]

So what are you going to do? Debate the voices in your head?

[emulation]

[well - if anything, at least Katie seems a little more relaxed about the voices. Just a little, though.]

I guess. Hasn't failed me yet.

[17thcenturyboy]

Then I suppose I should wish you luck.

[emulation]

Good luck with which part, exactly?

[17thcenturyboy]

Talking your schizophrenic delusions out of using you as an instrument for murder, or. Whatever.

[emulation]

My what-delusions?

[17thcenturyboy]

The voices you hear. I presume they are some sort of mental abnormality.

Unless... you believe otherwise?

[emulation]

I don't believe they're - anything. They're just annoying, and weird.

[17thcenturyboy]

There is another option. They could be supernatural; we are in the land of the Gods, after all.

[emulation]

[she's nodding now.]

Like a demon.

[17thcenturyboy]

For example. [ he agrees, waiting to see how she might take the news ]

[emulation]

[Not very well, to be honest. But it has explained her other memories.]

I hate this.