Maybe that's the goal, though. To harvest your emotions.
[The words are out before he can think about what he's saying, and Douman flinches inwardly the moment he hears it. This place has a bad habit of reminding him of some of the things he has experienced back when he was still and Onmyoji, sometimes to the point where it makes him fall back into old patterns. But he can't let the nostalgia get the better of him. That'd just be stupid, considering that he isn't the man he once was anymore.
(Hell, he might still be able to put up warding talismans against evil, but then he'd end up getting stopped and burned by them as well!)]
...Anyway, the fact that you managed to deal this long with it speaks for your mental fortitude. Do you know how long the- How long people usually last?
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[The words are out before he can think about what he's saying, and Douman flinches inwardly the moment he hears it. This place has a bad habit of reminding him of some of the things he has experienced back when he was still and Onmyoji, sometimes to the point where it makes him fall back into old patterns. But he can't let the nostalgia get the better of him. That'd just be stupid, considering that he isn't the man he once was anymore.
(Hell, he might still be able to put up warding talismans against evil, but then he'd end up getting stopped and burned by them as well!)]
...Anyway, the fact that you managed to deal this long with it speaks for your mental fortitude. Do you know how long the- How long people usually last?