Audience: Harrowhark Nonagesimus

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[bonetiddies]

[Truly the epitome of pride that he is just suffering torture and chose not to mention it ever. She gets it, dude.]

. . . I dislike the idea of leaving you to suffer this way. But clearly it would be foolhardy to continue to use brute force to remove something supernatural.

I have wondered, about your appearances. When you became the Avatars, they changed. Is that when your crown appeared?

[probe]

[stubborn pride, for sure. he's seen enough in harrow to know that they're a little similar in that respect, which is why she gets to see his face.] Around then. [he nods.] I haven't spent much time thinking about it. Isn't something I can change.

[bonetiddies]

The process of becoming Avatars remains a topic which cannot or will not be discussed?

[probe]

Don't really know a lot about it, if you want honest.

[bonetiddies]

How can that be? You simply - one day transformed into this? Or is it something you cannot recall?

[probe]

We've been here a while. It just started happening. Probably because we agreed to do this.

[bonetiddies]

You agreed to do what? Become Avatars? Guide us?

[probe]

Become Avatars. Not all of us agree on guiding any of you.

[bonetiddies]

Which suggests there is more to your role than guidance, or else you would have paid a painful price simply to be allowed to eavesdrop, something I recall you do not care for.

What is an Avatar, then?

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[on the one hand, he's pleased she listens and remembers? on the other, gross, don't remember or perceive him on any level.] Someone who indulged too much.

[bonetiddies]

[You're perceived, bitch.]

You framed it first as a choice, now a consequence.

[probe]

It can be both.

[bonetiddies]

I have wondered. If you wished to leave, could you?

[probe]

[this one takes some thinking. and then he sighs.] No. I wouldn't.

[bonetiddies]

I meant to ask whether you would be free to, but that is interesting as well. Why?

[probe]

Unfinished business. Can't leave until it's settled.

[bonetiddies]

I have a sense I already know the answer, so forgive the waste of a question. But might you say what that business is?

[probe]

[he just gives her a look.]

[bonetiddies]

Yes, yes. I thought so, but imagine if I was wrong and hadn't even tried.

Our presence - is it helping you settle that business, in some way?

[probe]

I assume it is. It's not likely you'd be here if it wasn't. But things don't always have meaning. Unfortunately.

[bonetiddies]

They don't. But perhaps whether or not it was the intention, it is what we will do.