So in other worlds, the same type of schemes to occur. That is good to know. If I am to create a world free of such cruel experiments, I must anticipate that.

[She does get it, and her attitude towards him softens a little. You do learn to create hard barriers around yourself, when that is your only means of survival.]

I knew a woman, when I was a student. As an infant, some magic was done to her, and a being -- a being some view as a goddess -- was put inside her. I don't know whether that being was good or evil, but I do know the infant was intended to become nothing more than a vessel for her. A tool of the church. A weapon to be used against heretics like myself.

Nonetheless, she made her own choices, and was the bravest person I've ever known.

So I find it easy to believe you have made your own choices as well. Easier now, perhaps. I had thought all four of you might have become the tools of something else. [But it sounds like she no longer thinks so?

Hope this change of heart doesn't bite me, Siz, in the ass.]