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Adrian

He was the reason I was able to survive in this prison

And he was also the reason I was here in the first place

“You don’t need your subconscious to tell you what your conscious already knows,” the voice told me “You are tainted and impure Your soul is shrouded in darkness, and you have sinned against your own kind”

I sighed at this old rhetoric and shifted, trying tobattle My es now There was no comfort to be found in these conditions

“It must make you sad,” the voice continued, “to know that you’ve broken your father’s heart”

That was a new approach, one that caught : “My father doesn’t have a heart”

“He does, Sydney He does” Unless I wasdrawn rets the fall you’ve taken Especially when you showed such proainst evil”

I scooted over so that I could lean against the rough-cut wall “Well, he’s got another daughter who’s et over it”

“You broke her heart too Both of therieved than you could ever know Wouldn’t it be nice to reconcile with them?”

“Are you offering me that chance?” I asked cautiously

“We’ve been offering you that chance froladly begin your path to redemption”