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[sootprints]

... No, it's not...

I still... don't really know the answer. About what I really am.

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No one was able to tell you...?

Or is it that they wouldn't?

[sootprints]

I don't think anyone knows.

I found a place where there were other shadows like me... but we're not really the same. And most of them know even less than I do.

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None of them-?

[how-? they all had to come from... somewhere.]

...how were they different?

[sootprints]

They weren't humans before, like I was.

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And so they'd have no idea wh-what happened...

[...which means it's right back to square one.]

[sootprints]

Exactly.

The adults might know more, but none of them can be trusted, so I've been trying to investigate on my own.

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That's- something you could likely use a wish for too, isn't it...? If you were to get one here?

[sootprints]

Yes. Although... there is something I want even more right now. So even if I am able to make a wish, I'll still need to put in the work to find those answers for myself.

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...if I may ask... what is it that you want more?

[sootprints]

To seize control of the manor where the shadows live.

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I see... if you had that, could it lead to those answers...?

[maybe that could resolve both.

but, speaking of answers--

the void evidently isn't done yet.]

[sootprints]

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oh... ]

I see...

You weren't what you thought you were, either.

[ but it's worse, hearing how he was made. the people who were sacrificed. ]