[Hector rolls his eyes —suck up — but samples it and declares it ‘fine’. Back into the ice box it goes.
He walks from the ice box to the stools, but doesn’t take a seat.]
Yes, they came in the forms that the villagers denounced as ‘witches’ familiars’— black cats and ravens and rats and horned toads. We were not very popular with the locals, as you can imagine. I could hear them, or at least sense what they chose to convey. They lead me to places where I could learn more about my powers, and they kept me safe.
[He is pacing the length of the kitchen by this point.]
They were spirits of demons possessing the animals, hoping they could cultivate my power to the point where I could give them bodies of their own.
[He isn’t regretful about it. It is just a fact. It’s a time he recalls more fondly than his youth, at least.]
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He walks from the ice box to the stools, but doesn’t take a seat.]
Yes, they came in the forms that the villagers denounced as ‘witches’ familiars’— black cats and ravens and rats and horned toads. We were not very popular with the locals, as you can imagine. I could hear them, or at least sense what they chose to convey. They lead me to places where I could learn more about my powers, and they kept me safe.
[He is pacing the length of the kitchen by this point.]
They were spirits of demons possessing the animals, hoping they could cultivate my power to the point where I could give them bodies of their own.
[He isn’t regretful about it. It is just a fact. It’s a time he recalls more fondly than his youth, at least.]