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Mat Cauthon ([personal profile] a_better_man) wrote in [personal profile] magicalarchaeologist 2023-08-08 12:02 am (UTC)

[Mat barks a short little laugh.]

Then consider my first lesson well passed, my body was certainly corrupted.

[That had been the first time, and he can't believe he has to make that distinction. He rakes his hands through his hair and shakes his head.]

I don't even really remember those months. I remember...being sick. Sicker than I've ever been in my life. And voices. There were voices. Inside.

[Not that he can remember anything they'd said. Or if anything actually had been said, or if it had been whispers in the wind. Just mad muttering. So much is a blur.]

It's what clued folks into the fact I may...have the talent, so to speak. That sort of thing uses a person up in days, maybe a couple of weeks if they're lucky. I was months in its grips, it had something to feed on in me. Something big and powerful.

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