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[am_i_a_monster]

[Abigail died in the deserted plot and has just been revived.]

Hello? Can anyone hear me? Is anyone out there? It's dark out. I can't see anyone. Please tell me I didn't go through all that just to be alone again.

[There's a moment of Abigail crying.]

I was dead. Am I still dead, is that what this is?

[Being alone feels like hell to her.]

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[am_i_a_monster]

[Abigail nods.]   Yeah.  [Her clothes are practical and warm, chosen from years of being a hunter.]  

I feel bad for making people come out in the rain like this.

[vocarrah]

Ah, no, don't say that. [Ianchus sits back, looking over at her in the dim light. He should have remembered how dark it was here, should have brought candles.]

Don't apologize for what others have chosen to do.

[am_i_a_monster]

[Abigail shrugs.] 

I chose to be in this position and to put out a call.  I should have known people would come.  I just didn't want to be alone.

[vocarrah]

Chose to be in your position? I don't think anyone chooses to die.
[He certainly didn't.]

Either way. Most people here are competent enough to know what they're getting into. I'm sure nobody else would want you to be alone, either.

[am_i_a_monster]

I did.  I asked him to do it.

[She nods.]  Yeah, it's bad when I'm alone.  Bad for anyone to be alone.  That's when nightmares and bad thoughts happen.

[vocarrah]

[Ah. Definitely more to this one than he'd thought. Ianchus pauses for a long time, and then ventures the question:]

'Him'?

[am_i_a_monster]

Yeah, The man who helped me.   He made it all go away.  No more pain.  No more nightmares.

[vocarrah]

[Ianchus feels the hair on the back of his neck stand up, and he throws Abigail another alarmed glance]

...Who was it? Why...why did he do--why did you ask him?

[am_i_a_monster]

I was alone and scared and I couldn't stop thinking about bad stuff I've done in the past.  He said dying would give me a second chance to be better.  Don't worry.  He only did it because I asked him to.