...what? It's... I'm... ( Is it? Him? It's always him, they tell him so, root of all wrong, root of evil. He coils into himself, seems to want to make himself small, arms wrapping around his person. ) I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I'm just helping, we're just helping, we -
( They're doing this for a cause, for a reason. To help, to protect, to salvage. He speaks rushed, in a fumbled haze, speaks as if, if only this gentleman hears him, he'll agree. And then the Lumberjack will be safe again. )
We're turning time back only to... only before this. This thing. This atta... the bleeding? You saw? Just. Just before. She left a... a curse in, it's in the ground, it's in our waters, now, we feel it. We do. Can't purge it, we can only... we're just running. Running in time.
( And what's so wrong with that, to be a coward? But living? What's so wrong, if they keep the village safe? )
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...what? It's... I'm... ( Is it? Him? It's always him, they tell him so, root of all wrong, root of evil. He coils into himself, seems to want to make himself small, arms wrapping around his person. ) I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I'm just helping, we're just helping, we -
( They're doing this for a cause, for a reason. To help, to protect, to salvage. He speaks rushed, in a fumbled haze, speaks as if, if only this gentleman hears him, he'll agree. And then the Lumberjack will be safe again. )
We're turning time back only to... only before this. This thing. This atta... the bleeding? You saw? Just. Just before. She left a... a curse in, it's in the ground, it's in our waters, now, we feel it. We do. Can't purge it, we can only... we're just running. Running in time.
( And what's so wrong with that, to be a coward? But living? What's so wrong, if they keep the village safe? )