Meanwhile Camille finds herself floundering from the get go. It's usually funny to see a pack of kids play at being adults, but these ones are positively erudite. The dispute is hard to follow. She's stunned to see regular human kids involved — she'd thought maybe she and the rest of the flesh faces were the freaks in Kate's eyes.
That's not the point though. There's accusations flung, references to higher orders and subterfuge. Kate starts speaking strangely, too. Third person isn't a great place to jump for an argument, but with all the allusions to her starting as something else (a "morph?"), maybe the disconnect is more than affectation.
Then the soot flies for real, and Camille comes back to reality choking on a phantom smog.]
Kate? [All right, her throat is slowly wising up. Three more pathetic coughs and she tries again.] What was that all about?
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Meanwhile Camille finds herself floundering from the get go. It's usually funny to see a pack of kids play at being adults, but these ones are positively erudite. The dispute is hard to follow. She's stunned to see regular human kids involved — she'd thought maybe she and the rest of the flesh faces were the freaks in Kate's eyes.
That's not the point though. There's accusations flung, references to higher orders and subterfuge. Kate starts speaking strangely, too. Third person isn't a great place to jump for an argument, but with all the allusions to her starting as something else (a "morph?"), maybe the disconnect is more than affectation.
Then the soot flies for real, and Camille comes back to reality choking on a phantom smog.]
Kate? [All right, her throat is slowly wising up. Three more pathetic coughs and she tries again.] What was that all about?
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... Which part?
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Most of it, honestly. I only know what you've told me. I didn't realize that not everyone was a Shadow where you're from.
What's a morph? Why is it a big deal that it remembers itself?
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The Shadows House maintains its order with deceit. It's a threat to that very order for one to know anything beyond what they teach us.
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How did you escape that?
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[She wishes she could see her face. It's impossible to tell what she's feeling, and Camille can't bear to overstep.]
Kid, what happened to you?
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[ her voice is tense. ]
I hoped that, if I went to that house, I could find out.
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[She blows out a breath, uncertain. If she could just rub her finger over that face and scrub the soot away.
Instead she puts a hand to her shoulder. Soft, gentle.]
Do have people who can help you there? People you trust on your side?
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