[ Odette's answer curls Celeste's lips into a slight, knowing smile. ]
Naturally!
[ But soon, those lips draw into a thin line, falling back into a sort of numbness, a detachment she must arm herself with when talking about her past. ]
There was a ceremony, when she was seventeen. In front of everyone, she was to reveal her celestial nature to all, for all. But their promised angel did not come. What they found instead was an... Hm, what were the words they had used... "cursed monster?"
Among the people, the event could only mean that the being must be a herald of death, of an end. The Fragonard family would fall from grace. But the Lord and Lady were desperate to save their investment, so they and the clerics conspired, and sought to "purify" this corruption that had taken hold. They did not succeed.
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Naturally!
[ But soon, those lips draw into a thin line, falling back into a sort of numbness, a detachment she must arm herself with when talking about her past. ]
There was a ceremony, when she was seventeen. In front of everyone, she was to reveal her celestial nature to all, for all. But their promised angel did not come. What they found instead was an... Hm, what were the words they had used... "cursed monster?"
Among the people, the event could only mean that the being must be a herald of death, of an end. The Fragonard family would fall from grace. But the Lord and Lady were desperate to save their investment, so they and the clerics conspired, and sought to "purify" this corruption that had taken hold. They did not succeed.