audience: laudna

[mygod]

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[mygod]

[ only when there is no cleric or diamond. LIKE HERE APPARENTLY....... ] Mm. [ his brows furrow thoughtfully. fucking warlocks man. for as chilly and uppity as he usually acts, his expression is a little softer with sympathy. don't acknowledge that. ] It seems she is extremely attached to you. [ no shit. ] She must have a very strong will. Is there... something she's after? Aside from clinging to life.

[undread]

She wants to save her husband. And I think she wants to do that by bringing her god back to life.

[she doesn't really know that much about any of that, aside from the few mentions delilah has made.]

Which, I imagine, would be a very bad thing.

[mygod]

Of course. [ ..........why the gods. of course it's the accursed gods. he exhales sharply. OF COURSE. ] More than likely, yes. I've had about enough of... all these gods. [ thanks. ] From what little I have heard... Delilah is the one who turned her husband into a vampire. It is why she was removed from the Assembly.

[undread]

...I did know that. But she did it all to save him.

[it's fucked up but there's something she admires about that - how she did it all for love.]

She is the one who killed me. And she did awful things. And I know I ought to be happy to be free of her. But to be honest... [it's just a complicated feeling.]

She's so strong. And she taught me so much about how to be strong. And I know she was manipulating me and intended eventually to discard me. But I don't know if I know how to be strong without her. I have people I love, too. And I want to be able to save them. [and no one has ever given her an answer for how to do that as clearly as delilah, who taught her that you can tear the world apart for them if you're willing to.]

[mygod]

[THIS IS SO QUESTIONABLE... and yet, he's out here committing crimes also, so can he judge a girl for clinging to her warlock patron?] Well, I feel like I'm hearing this straight out of Gale of Waterdeep's endless mouth. I think both of you are better people as you are. Strong enough as you are. And if not, I think you would find a better way to be strong on your own. Without Delilah, without the orb. But I do understand. Ultimately, it's your choices to make.

[undread]

[the comparison is fair. their partnership has largely been about both of them talking the other out of a bad decision.]

...I think if she's allowed to remain, eventually she'll do something that hurts the people around me. So I need to do something about her.

[unconsecuted]

She will because nothing is more important to her than her goal. Except maybe you, of course, if you tether her to the Material Plane.

Until she finds a better way. Then we will have more problems than only Ludinus and a moon monster.

[Such is D&D life.]

[undread]

...Yes. Even if she doesn't have me, she'll find another way somehow. But perhaps she can leave me out of it.

[unconsecuted]

Oh, she'll try. But are you going to let her enact some terrible plan which effects not only you, but people you care about? You'll be involved either way.

[undread]

...No. I don't want her to use me for it.