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You hesitate.

And then you tell the creature why you are here.

After you have done the air seems to shiver around you. You think for a moment that the Shadow seems sad. You don’t know why you think this but you do.

N-o.   Y-o-u   m-u-s-t   l-e-a-v-e

Now it is your turn to ask why.

The shadow doesn’t respond, but instead he shifts back into the darkness. Almost disappearing again entirely before hesitating, and emerging back into the pool of light.

T-h-e-n   I   w-i-l-l    h-e-l-p