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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, AMANDA. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 102.92.004.06 *** gameover has joined 102.92.004.06 <gameover> This is Amanda. <gameover> If you need to contact me, do so here. <gameover> DO NOT waste my time with stupid shit.

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<wilhelm>

[goryteller]

Right. Of course you don't.

[So he's just gonna veer in the complete opposite direction.]

How did he die?

<gameover>

[retested]

That's none of your fucking business.

<wilhelm>

[goryteller]

I'm pretty sure it became my business after you murdered me in his honor.

How did he die? Was he sick?

<gameover>

[retested]

I'm not telling you shit.

<wilhelm>

[goryteller]

I'm guessing no. I mean, not being able to save a sick kid can make you feel pretty guilty, but not 'bludgeon a stranger to death with a baseball bat' guilty. I'm thinking it was much worse.

<gameover>

[retested]

FUCK YOU

<wilhelm>

[goryteller]

[Katurian has always found it easy to dig his fingers into another person's past, to find their weak points and tug. Maybe it's a skill that was passed down by his parents, that Katurian family sadism taking on a slightly more benign bent in the hands of an anxious writer. No torture. No child murder.

Just words. Terrible words.]

Did his killer look like me? Did he say something that I said?

<gameover>

[retested]

[No. It hadn't been like that at all, but she's too upset now to even deny it.]

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP

<wilhelm>

[goryteller]

[He feels better. Hurting her made him feel better. Maybe it's because he's made of shadows again, because it's easier to sink into the darkness.]

Thank you, Amanda. This was a nice chat.

<gameover>

[retested]

I'll make you pay for this too you son of a bitch

<wilhelm>

[goryteller]

I know. I don't care.

Not that you asked, but my brother died because I held a pillow over his head while he slept. I had forgotten when I first arrived here, but the Fog God was kind enough to remind me.

<gameover>

[retested]

then you have no right to judge me for anything I do

[goryteller]

I don't really think that's your decision to make.

<gameover>

[retested]

You think it's yours?

<wilhelm>

[goryteller]

Yes.

Anyway, like I said before, this was a nice chat. Maybe I'll see you around.

<gameover>

[retested]

We'll see.