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[overconfidently]

you're part of a theatrical troupe?

[guylining]

no i'm a witch. i do magic on stage, and i run a charm shop out of it during the day.

[overconfidently]

right. you're a witch. got it.

[guylining]

yes, that's how i tried to make a way out of here.

it didn't work despite a coven of us working together
not a one of us is weak. but we couldn't do together what any of us could've done alone anywhere else

i want to make a second attempt, but there's no point unless i can find a different means. a new idea.
that's why i'd help anyone who had one

at this point i'd try anything.

[overconfidently]

what happened when you tried?

[guylining]

the spell should've opened a portal to one world

instead it opened something like windows, to various places, none of which looked hospitable and many of which seemed to have monsters inside

looking into them for too long did something weird to your head. it was temporary

nothing could come through either way.

after it they turned my magic off completely for about a month.

[overconfidently]

how did they manage that? some sort of nullifier?

[guylining]

nothing they made me wear (although they've done that to others)

my magic was just gone
completely
i didn't have any guarantee it would come back, either, but one day it just did

they can do that to any of us.

there was a camp they sent us to last summer and no one's powers worked there

[overconfidently]

i'm familiar with camps. i wonder if it's a telepath then. if they're capable of suppressing your power without even touching you.

[guylining]

could be. if there's someone in my head i can't feel it, but maybe they could get around it

i have blockers, but if they can turn off literally all my magic they could turn those off too

[overconfidently]

magic blockers? like a spell?

[guylining]

protective wards. yeah a kind of spell

there's this rotten fucker called jonathan sims who pulls peoples secrets out of their minds bc that's just the way he is. he's why i made them, but they're generalised psychic wards

[overconfidently]

he's a telepath?

[guylining]

tbh i'm not totally sure what he is. i think it's a bit more than that

his mind-invasion thing involves tentacles. like some sort of weird elder god

i've never warded against anything like that so i just made them as strong as i possibly could.
his interest seems to be piqued by anything you might call supernatural

he saw one of the magical creatures that i rehome through the theatre and lost his shit because i said where they came from was none of his business
turns out he hates to be told that
anyway that's how i got on his radar

[overconfidently]

( nate already pretty much keeps his mind cloaked unless he wants someone to find him, but. good to know. )

sounds like a great guy.

( 100% sarcasm. )

also sounds like he could be taken down a notch or two.

[guylining]

he's a weird guy

like on the network he generally comes across as reserved & weirdly paranoid and i think that's not wrong, but then refuse to tell him a secret he wants to know and he just fuckin cthulhus right out on you

i've not seen it personally but he did it to someone i trust not to be lying about it.

[overconfidently]

i know the type who rampage when they can't get what they want. he could be dangerous.

[guylining]

he is

he's pretty high on my list of dangerous arseholes who aren't our captors

also on that list: roman sionis and victor zsasz
no powers, but they're serial killers & wannabe mafia men
they've hurt a lot of people here

[overconfidently]

does no one do anything about these people?

[guylining]

the city doesn't give a fuck. they were in jail for i think maybe a month when they were outed as the killers

there's no jail to put them in and no proper sanction. and if you kill them in retaliation the city just resurrects them again. zsasz already died once

plus like
what can be done without us being as bad as them?

[overconfidently]

you could rearrange their thoughts. leave them in a mental prison they can't break out of. take away certain parts of them so they won't hurt people.

[guylining]

i could

but it's a slippery slope, that.
literally changing someone. changing their mind, editing out the unpalatable bits

i've been tempted. recently, even, with someone who hurt someone i loved. the line's fuzzier than it used to be. like maybe six months ago you could've said that to me and i'd say i would never do something like that. i can't say that now

but i think, maybe. i start doing that, then one day there's someone trying to work out how to take me down. it's too easy to become the bad guy. i don't want that.

[overconfidently]

so you'll just let them continue doing what they're doing then. since killing them is pointless.

[guylining]

i didn't say that. i don't know how to permanently stop them, but i can punish them. that i don't feel guilty about, especially since the city won't.

[overconfidently]

and how do you plan on punishing them? with a spanking?