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[sacredpath]

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[kumeyuri]

[do you know how many people lied to him when he was a lost baby? it's fine.

but hm. bad.]

Shadowheart-san—!?

[sacredpath]

[yeah not great. gritting her teeth, holding her hand close to her chest.]

It's alright, it's alright.

[she's fine, this is just a thing that happens sometimes.]

I'm fine. What happened?

[kumeyuri]

That seriously doesn't seem all right!

[HELLO?]

... You were a kid.

[sacredpath]

It only lasts a few seconds.

[she's already doing better.]

...Was I? Again?

[kumeyuri]

That's not quite as comforting as you think it is...

[...]

This effect is pretty inconvenient. Yeah.

[sacredpath]

It's one of the oddest things I've ever experienced.

[rubbing her hand, but otherwise standing back up straight, recovered.]

I haven't been that small in a very long time. [like, she looks and acts young, but she is decades old.] And I hardly have memories of my childhood at all. To be thrown back there - unsettling.

[kumeyuri]

... You don't have memories of your childhood?

[sacredpath]

Only a few. Otherwise, no. I don't have many memories of being younger than I am now at all.

[kumeyuri]

[uh.]

Do you... know why? Is that normal?

[that doesn't sound normal.]

[sacredpath]

It's something we Sharrans do. To keep our devotion to Shar pure, untainted by other ties to the world. And to maintain her perfect secrecy.

[kumeyuri]

... Oh.

[the awkward look of someone who is not religious and cannot relate to this at all, but doesn't want to be rude and judge something he doesn't know.]

[sacredpath]

[sometimes you should judge people for their religious practices though.]

...I know. It isn't great. But it isn't as though I don't know why.