No. I was a child, and I was abducted from my home and raised to believe I was an unwanted orphan they'd saved from the streets.
[so it wasn't really a collective of sharing and empathy for her, in this case. but she's really not trying to say it's the same. there are also plenty of groups who take needy people in whose intentions aren't so awful.]
But they nonetheless made certain I feared the outside world more than the solace they offered.
[Genuinely. Even though he thinks she may have already come to terms with that being in the past. Sometimes, resentment and hurt lingers, though.]
I would never allow the commune to do such a thing. We had children, the ones I healed, but I would never allow them to be taken.
But I do understand what I offered was difficult not to take when in pain or turmoil. The collective was simply a part of the Hexcore's internal magical design.
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[so it wasn't really a collective of sharing and empathy for her, in this case. but she's really not trying to say it's the same. there are also plenty of groups who take needy people in whose intentions aren't so awful.]
But they nonetheless made certain I feared the outside world more than the solace they offered.
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[Genuinely. Even though he thinks she may have already come to terms with that being in the past. Sometimes, resentment and hurt lingers, though.]
I would never allow the commune to do such a thing. We had children, the ones I healed, but I would never allow them to be taken.
But I do understand what I offered was difficult not to take when in pain or turmoil. The collective was simply a part of the Hexcore's internal magical design.