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[daozhangs]

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[fishfairy]

Then... is it foolish to hesitate to ask for something when the forces of the realm already know too much about you?

The monthly curses seem too potent already without me admitting to a weakness or weaknesses.

[daozhangs]

Your concerns are well-founded, in such a place as this - but they rest on the assumption that any amount of vigilance might make a difference. My experience so far suggests that isn't the case, and that those things which haunt us will haunt us here regardless of whether or not we've admitted to them. By my understanding, the Fog God chooses the manner of monstrosity which most suits or conflicts with our innermost nature.

I've found it far simpler to assume that she knows all of that which we've hidden and prepare accordingly.

That said, Mana is unaffiliated with any known god and has thus far given no reason that I'm aware of to doubt the integrity of her bartering or anything gained from it.

[fishfairy]

[ His friend’s words offer both large amounts of warm comfort and equal amounts of cold disconcerting images. Runyu wants to argue with him — to argue that if he had the capacity to hide his secrets from even himself that he could fool a foreign immortal — but Runyu can still be a rational being. He has suffered too much agony since his arrival (nearly a year ago) to put any belief in her choices being coincidences. However, putting her power into words is more terrifying than he has imagined. Placing himself that deeply in another’s control, even indirectly.

His hands clench around his laptop.

Before he breathes out a ragged breath, expelling all that poison.

He cannot, will not, fight her. Or this existence.

He will not jeopardize this new beginning whatever the price. ]

Has she ever turned that person’s wish against them?

[daozhangs]

She has been bartering with monsters for far greater a time than I have been here, and I can account for very little of that.

To my knowledge, however, she has not.

That said, her magic is not infallible. There are times in which it does not manifest as intended by either her or the recipient. By my understanding, such instances can be remedied.

[fishfairy]

[ Once more, Runyu is left with conflicting emotions when dealing with his friend's honesty. It's reassuring in the fact that his friend doesn't know of any wrongdoings with Mana's dealings. However, that there is an understood chance of mishap with these transactions is just as disconcerting. His friend is no fool. He does not believe Mana could hoodwink him after his past. However, fortune has never favored him.

He will have to continue his inquiries and hopefully, he does not worry Xingchen. ]

What has happened and what does it take to remedy these failings?

[daozhangs]

By my understanding, most such missteps have occurred when shifting from one monstrous form to another.

The same magic can remedy the situation, but at the same cost as the spell itself had been. I think, perhaps, that the coins may be a part of the magic itself. She doesn't strike me as the type to willfully charge to repair a mistake.