[Right, those dreams... she still shivered every time she remembers hers, and the feeling of slowly freezing solid deep down in the dark. It hurts to think that this could be linked to the picture she saw, of Anna crying, alone in the dark.
She wants to believe it's all fake. That it's some attempt by the Wizard to demoralize them. To break them. But it had felt so real...]
Believe me, I know what it's like to hide things like that from other people. [Her powers, what happened in her past... even here, nobody knows about the terrible things she's done.] It's not... bad, at least not with this. You're not doing this to manipulate anyone or to get away with things you did. You're just... worried, aren't you?
[It's better to say "you're just scared", but she doesn't want to call the poor kid out like that. That could only make things worse.]
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[Right, those dreams... she still shivered every time she remembers hers, and the feeling of slowly freezing solid deep down in the dark. It hurts to think that this could be linked to the picture she saw, of Anna crying, alone in the dark.
She wants to believe it's all fake. That it's some attempt by the Wizard to demoralize them. To break them. But it had felt so real...]
Believe me, I know what it's like to hide things like that from other people. [Her powers, what happened in her past... even here, nobody knows about the terrible things she's done.] It's not... bad, at least not with this. You're not doing this to manipulate anyone or to get away with things you did. You're just... worried, aren't you?
[It's better to say "you're just scared", but she doesn't want to call the poor kid out like that. That could only make things worse.]