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[peccatore]

WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, MARCO. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 868.32.455.97 *** marco has joined 868.32.455.97 <marco> Hi, this is Marco! (Though you probably already knew that ;D) <marco> How can I help you today?

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[hauntpadour]

You don't have to stay with him, Marco. He needs help but... you don't have to hand him all the power.

[peccatore]

I-- [Marco looks at Egon for a moment; seemingly uncomfortable, he decides to go back to focusing on some point just beyond the lake.] I don't know what you think I'm doing, but it's not... it's not that. I don't see how it's that at all.

Besides, he needs...

[His hands tense up. When he finishes the sentence, it's in a mumble:]

He needs me.

[hauntpadour]

[Egon doesn't look at Marco at all. He's not good at this sort of thing, but at the very least the Merman has never elicited the worst from him. He looks at his arm, then at Marco's hand.]

Then what is it?

Elias is a child, and he deserves to be a child. He won't listen to me and I can't blame him for that, but I stand by that his power is corrupting him.

[peccatore]

[Marco shakes his head, and catches a glimpse of Egon looking at his hand in the process.

Right. That's why what Egon is saying doesn't sound right.]

If anything, he's the one handing me power. I can't fight. I'm no good at magic. If it weren't for him... I don't know how much of my old life I would still remember.

[And yet he still calls it his "old life" so easily. Marco gulps and tries to shake the thought.]

We protect each other, that's all. Even if it's not... not quite in the same way I used to believe.

[... Has he said too much?]