PC: Rupert

[sootprints]

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[sootprints]

It still hurts a bit. But I'll be okay.

[agleam]

Do you want to talk about whatever happened?

[sootprints]

[ she'll slowly sit up, propping up a pillow behind herself to make it easier. ]

... Some parts are hard to describe. But I don't mind talking about some of it.

[agleam]

Only if you want to.

[he's not going to pry if it's difficult.]

[sootprints]

Well, to start with...

Do you know what a "bible camp" is?

[agleam]

[he shakes his head.]

[sootprints]

It's where "bad" children are sent, to learn about holy scripture and connect with god, so they'll become good... I think.

[agleam]

Well, that's stupid, because you aren't a bad child.

[mad on her behalf!! but]

They hurt you once you got there?

[sootprints]

Not right away...

Only after we met the devil.

[agleam]

Must've been scary...

[sootprints]

... It wasn't, really...

After we met the devil, everything was better.

[agleam]

Oh.

[surprised, but he moves past it quickly]

I'm glad it got better, then. Did anything else happen after you met them?

[sootprints]

... It changed us. We became something else.

And then everyone else came after us.