text; un: padlocks

[enblightened]

those capable of magic i need you

i need to better bind myself

enchant or curse or whatever you do hold me back just hold it back all of me

i need more bonds more locks more

oh i am not enough


[cw: mention of cannibalism in comments]

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text; un:charon

[notimeforfailure]

What's happening? Are you in trouble of some sort?

[enblightened]

i cannot be trusted
i cannot
the worst has come to pass after all

[notimeforfailure]

And the worst would be...?

It's not the fish parasites again, is it?

[that was definitely pretty bad]

[enblightened]

ah
that is right
you have not seen it
my full transformation

i am a monster, lysithea
quite literally

[notimeforfailure]

I did notice you had some peculiar physical traits.

[this is her version of being polite]

Well, what do you need, magic-wise?

[enblightened]

indeed.

i would not know what to ask as i am no practitioner
but i had someone once curse my chains to help me hold back this monster inside of me.
i am getting more chains
are you able to use magic on them?

[notimeforfailure]

I hate to say it, but I don't know much in the way of curses. If you find yourself losing control, I'm quite talented at knocking monsters unconscious, though.

[or incinerating them]

Is your affliction a curse on its own?

[enblightened]

in a manner of speaking.
it is like a mutation, and my blood was poisoned as a result.
which has left me how i am now.

[notimeforfailure]

Ah.

I have some experience with corrupted blood.

In my world, my goal as a magic scholar would have been to eventually purify and cleanse blood.

I have found that my affliction has been improved with the gift of a new body, though. Was it not so for you?