[It comes out sharper than he expected, forced, rough as an axe-edge against a grinding wheel. He hates this, hates explaining the whole tawdry tragic timeline of it, but he has to, for this to do any good.]
I was a spy in the steel ministry when they. Selected me. It was unexpected. Once I knew their secrets, I killed every other Inquisitor in the city. The Lord Ruler fell that night.
[And even the satisfaction of that moment is worn thin by all that followed. There's no emotion left in the words, just blunt, flat, chopped-offed sentence fragments. It's the only way he can do this.]
But there was. A worse master we knew nothing of. A terrible god. The spikes - they are its magic. They let it in. They let anything with mental influence in.
[Private]
[It comes out sharper than he expected, forced, rough as an axe-edge against a grinding wheel. He hates this, hates explaining the whole tawdry tragic timeline of it, but he has to, for this to do any good.]
I was a spy in the steel ministry when they. Selected me. It was unexpected. Once I knew their secrets, I killed every other Inquisitor in the city. The Lord Ruler fell that night.
[And even the satisfaction of that moment is worn thin by all that followed. There's no emotion left in the words, just blunt, flat, chopped-offed sentence fragments. It's the only way he can do this.]
But there was. A worse master we knew nothing of. A terrible god. The spikes - they are its magic. They let it in. They let anything with mental influence in.