[The Witch of Misfortune can be easily found wandering around, mostly in the Master Bedroom. Though seems she'll easily stop whatever she's doing and chat with you, at least...]
[yeah no, he's not going to stop. His voice remains calm and even. Terios is still chewing.]
Stop what? Treating you like more than just a manifestation of bad luck? I did say that Witches weren't people, didn't I. [he closes his eyes] I think that's still right, but that isn't the whole story. "Witch" is a concept. But concepts are given life by people. And you, and Kimihiro both, you are people behind the concepts. It's a way to protect yourself from the hurt.
Yes, I suppose that's true. [Shadow looks away, seemingly unaffected by her dramatics.] You both are and are not that person... you are the hurt. [now he seems to be talking to himself...] I think... I understand now. That girl's pain. Kimihiro's loneliness. They're so powerful they have lives of their own. Heh... to think that emotions could be so intense that they could take on their own identities...
[She slams her hand down on her desk - and for a moment, the illusion of the witch fades around it.
What he sees...Is a horribly burnt human hand, which is practically charcoal, pitch black. The fingers somehow impossibly move, gripping the desk so hard a normal, healthy human hand would be going white around the knuckles.
And then, like it never happened - it's back to normal.]
[Yes. There it is. The truth, the real truth -- and his theory, confirmed. He looks down at his book, at an illustration of innocent women sent to the gallows for crimes they could never have committed.
But Shadow does get up to leave, and Terios finally drops the stake, returning to his side]
... My father did what he did because he believed in the good of humanity. In the end, the worst parts of humanity corrupted him and turned him into something just like you, Nirrti. And he died alone, hated, his legacy tarnished.
But that wasn't the end. I showed the world the truth. Just like your other self is trying to do. You will still know defeat, "Nirrti". But it won't be like you imagine.
[She's trembling as he gets up to leave, her breaths ragged and pained as her fire licks around her body - almost like a snapshot in time of the end of his theory.
She says nothing, just glaring at him - though as he begins to walk out of the door, she begins to chant under her breath -]
I'm me. I am Nirrti, I - don't think about anything else. I'm me. I'm me! I am a Witch, I am a Witch, I am a witch-
[chanting it frantically, over and over, as her hand flickers every so often from life to charred death.
Shadow gets the feeling this approach did more harm than good...]
[He flinches, but doesn't turn back around as he leaves. Well, he never said he was good at this kind of thing... But he got the information. Something something breaking eggs something omelettes?
Now he just needed to pass it on to someone who could put it to good use]
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Stop what? Treating you like more than just a manifestation of bad luck? I did say that Witches weren't people, didn't I. [he closes his eyes] I think that's still right, but that isn't the whole story. "Witch" is a concept. But concepts are given life by people. And you, and Kimihiro both, you are people behind the concepts. It's a way to protect yourself from the hurt.
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No!I am Nirrti, the Witch of Misfortune! I have no hurt to protect myself from, or anything else like that! I am who I say I am!
I am not - I am a Witch! A Wiiiiiitch! This is what I exist fooooooor!
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[She slams her hand down on her desk - and for a moment, the illusion of the witch fades around it.
What he sees...Is a horribly burnt human hand, which is practically charcoal, pitch black. The fingers somehow impossibly move, gripping the desk so hard a normal, healthy human hand would be going white around the knuckles.
And then, like it never happened - it's back to normal.]
LEAVE! NOW!
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But Shadow does get up to leave, and Terios finally drops the stake, returning to his side]
... My father did what he did because he believed in the good of humanity. In the end, the worst parts of humanity corrupted him and turned him into something just like you, Nirrti. And he died alone, hated, his legacy tarnished.
But that wasn't the end. I showed the world the truth. Just like your other self is trying to do. You will still know defeat, "Nirrti". But it won't be like you imagine.
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She says nothing, just glaring at him - though as he begins to walk out of the door, she begins to chant under her breath -]
I'm me. I am Nirrti, I - don't think about anything else. I'm me. I'm me! I am a Witch, I am a Witch, I am a witch-
[chanting it frantically, over and over, as her hand flickers every so often from life to charred death.
Shadow gets the feeling this approach did more harm than good...]
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Now he just needed to pass it on to someone who could put it to good use]