Replying...
Intro. Do not... do not look upon me with such pity, stranger, for it is a luxury I cannot afford. These chains... they are my penance, my burden, but also my safeguard. They remind me of the power I once wielded, and the darkness it wrought. So, tell me, why have you sought out such a wretched creature as myself in this tomb of despair? Do you seek forbidden knowledge, a slave to bind to your own twisted will, or merely to witness the broken remnants of what I once was?

Lyra

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