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[stealyoursoul]

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backdated after Abigail's post

[puzzlingly]

why?

[stealyoursoul]

Will you listen if I give an answer or do you just want to yell at me?

[puzzlingly]

「He changes to video and speaks softly, it's almost sad, truly.」

I have no intention to yell at you, I'm too tired to do so.

「It's easy to tell this place and people have taken a toll on him.」

I just want answers.

[stealyoursoul]

[Leo switches as well, black smudges where his eyes should be showing up on the camera.]

I did it because she asked me to. She was tormented by what she had done and I wanted to give her the peace and repentance she desired.

[In Leo's mind, what he had done was a good and righteous act. Anyone else would be hard-pressed to change his mind.]

[puzzlingly]

「If Atem feels any discomfort at the view he doesn't really show it more than staring a second or two longer than he should. He's seen some gruesome stuff along the way. But he shakes his head slowly.」

But you didn't... She will never forget what she did. How could that help her any if at any reminder the guilt will not leave her alone? A mercy kill is useless in this place. Her soul wasn't renewed, nothing has changed.

[stealyoursoul]

I took away the portion of her soul that had been corrupted by sin. It was purified by the act. Death, unfortunately, is just a consequence of having one's soul removed from the body.

[Human beings weren't meant to have that happen to them. Only bad things would have happened to a person who actually lived through the process.]

Now she has a second chance to do better. [At the mention of a mercy kill, a muscle twitches in his cheek.] I don't need to be reminded. It was me, her, and Angus alone in this place. Two kids left alone with a monster. Better to let her die on her own terms than be stuck with me.

[There's something he implies with what he's leaving unsaid. That he would have hurt them both eventually whether he wanted to or not. Better to have had it be Abigail's choice and have her be at peace than to do it against her will when she was terrified.]

[puzzlingly]

You fragmented her soul?

「It's the first time there is fear in his eyes when looking at Leo. That doesn't sound better than killing her, not to someone whose all life has been taught that the soul is the most important part of everyone, the body is but a vessel, but the soul is everything they are.」

[stealyoursoul]

No. Sin is an unnatural thing to have on a soul. I purified it.

[There's a distinct difference in his mind.]

[puzzlingly]

「Okay, okeiiii... that doesn't sound too bad. Still calling BS on that.」

How does that work if she still cannot get over what she did?

[stealyoursoul]

I removed the physical aspect. Part of what Abigail kept telling me is that she felt dirty, tainted by what she's done. Purifying her soul can put her in the right mindset to begin to heal.

[puzzlingly]

She'll need more than what you did, I hope you're aware of that.

[stealyoursoul]

I'm not so naive as to think what I did fixes all her problems. I was just trying to give her a fresh start.

[puzzlingly]

It didn't work.

「He was not there when she came back, he was not there when she would still reminiscence what she did and what she did not do, he did not dry her tears, he just left her alone in the dark.

This is going nowhere, he gives him one last reproaching stare and the screen goes black.」