Drakor stopped moving.
Finally, he spoke, voice as flat and still as a dead pancake. “You are not being given a choice?”
“…That’s what I said?” She looks legitimately confused.
Other than his lips and the subtle rise and fall of his chest, Drakor remained frozen. “Who is making that choice for you?”
“It’s just… fate.”
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“It’s not like my actions are being controlled. Just that. At the end of the line, there’s only one way I can. Die.”
“How soon?” Drakor asked, voice slowly returning to normal. “Everyone will die. But I suspect that is not what you are referring to, is it?”
“It’s… not anything to really worry over. It’s just when I die… which… might be earlier than others would if it’s more convenient for the… thing. It’ll be. Important. Enough to spurn action. At least to… a group of people.”
“And in my life I’ll be. Made. To be someone worth martyring. By that… thing. I’ve been told.”
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She quickly raises her hands up as if she just noticed the phasing distress. “It’s not all bad! It makes me better. I think.”
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“Who is this group of people?” Drakor asked, voice unnaturally calm again.
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“It’s just my… family. Mostly. They… explained it to me?”
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“They went over a few things kinda offhand, like it wasn’t…”
“…But it’s hard to disregard how you’ll die.”
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“That is very reasonable,” Drakor nodded. “Did your family say what… cause you were ‘dying for?’”
His voice was slightly scornful as he spoke the last phrase.
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She shakes her head. “I don’t really think it’s anything specific… just. Something.”
“And I hope I’m able to be somewhere where my death helps. Instead of hurts.”
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Drakor did not look happy. “They just… told you that you would die for something important? Where are they getting that from?”
“…”
“I don’t know.”
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“If she were present, my sister would complain about the lack of academic rigor that comes when you do not cite your sources.” Drakor said. “As for me, I must simply say that seems questionable. How can you know this fate is real if there is no source for the claim?”
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“I don’t think there’s… any real reason to. Lie to me.”
She suddenly starts using specific terms in an attempt to convince you. “And… from what I’ve heard… and from this ‘Great Old Wizard’ who I was… made to go see, all people like me have… some sort of connection through a… ‘Bloodline’ of sorts. And just mine is. Specific.”
One thing of note is that she never explicitly says ‘I trust them’.
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Drakor frowned. “Was this related to the magic you cast earlier?”
She nods. “Not everything I do… ‘draws from the bloodline’, but I do think it… helps? with some things.”
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