"Nothing too dangerous?" [She says, actively cleaning out her bullet wounds. You can hear the wry doubt clear as a bell.]
...A devil. [Admittedly, a concept she's more aware of in the abstract than in truth. What is the religion practiced in fairy tale world? we do not know and I will not justify it. But she knows of a little wooden boy who was told by a shape in the doorway that he was right and good, and he could be given the power to save his father from the perils of the Neverafter, should he do as he was told. And that deal had proved a dreadfully dark one.] Honestly, Vi? It sounds like a good way to get in over your head.
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...A devil. [Admittedly, a concept she's more aware of in the abstract than in truth. What is the religion practiced in fairy tale world? we do not know and I will not justify it. But she knows of a little wooden boy who was told by a shape in the doorway that he was right and good, and he could be given the power to save his father from the perils of the Neverafter, should he do as he was told. And that deal had proved a dreadfully dark one.] Honestly, Vi? It sounds like a good way to get in over your head.
Did it ask something of you?
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I'm always in over my head.
[ this is perhaps stunningly self aware but right now she's so tired and in pain that she just. feels it. ]
That's the thing - it didn't. It didn't ask for anything at all. It said we could just... be us. We didn't have to be perfect.