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[enchangement]

the music is gone and with it
the small favors and familiars they brought
do you miss it?
do you miss them?
the colors were brighter
the sounds were louder
and some trick of the mind forgot
we were in a cage
or didn't and just
observed the decorations on the bars

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[enchangement]

is there a lot of magic where you're from?

yes. born on osiris.

[quaerit]

If you knew where to look for it yes
There was more magic than most people think

I'd seen the fish before.

What's Osiris? Because to me it's a god. Moon? Space station?

[enchangement]

core planet

do you know the god?

[quaerit]

No no
Historical god, from Ancient Egypt. Not worshipped in my time

He was the god of the underworld

People have always had a habit of naming planets like that though so I'm not surprised
What was it like? Aside from Earth the only planet I've seen is this one

[enchangement]

oh.

people with money and ties to the Alliance lived there. everything seemed perfect.

[quaerit]

Seemed?

When you say Alliance what do you mean
Like an Alliance of planets governing what humans do or
Uniting more than one species together?

[ Are we going to talk about aliens? He thinks we might talk about aliens! ]

[enchangement]

rich people have problems too

the first option
there haven't been any others
just humans and reavers that were once human

[quaerit]

oh

[ So we're not going to talk about aliens. ]

If the Reavers were once human what are they now?
Are they the problem that your people had

[enchangement]

reavers are terrible
they eat and rape people
they are a problem
the people on osiris aren't her people anymore

[quaerit]

They
Jesus Christ. They're cannibals?

There were cannibals here once. People were turned into them
It was complicated but it didn't last.

Whose people??

[enchangement]

yes.

it was complicated?

her people. the girl you're talking to.

[quaerit]

Complicated. Rage did something to the meat in the can's we all scavenge and people were infected
It turned them into monsters who ate people
Some people knew what it was because it happened on their worlds. They said the infected were possessed by spirits who infected them through meat like an illness
I thought if we'd known more we could have tried to exorcise them but in the end it stopped when it ran its course like everything the gods do to us
When the cannibals were killed Hope brought them back without infection

[ Gansey had been horrified by all of it. Those people, turned into monsters against their will, with death the only way to save them. It was one of the first events he experienced here and still holds the record for most horrifying. To date, anyway. ]

Oh you mean your people?
What is your name? I've been talking to you all this time and don't even know it