DARKEST SELF

"Oh Timmy" Annalee gives him a big, pig-included group hug. "Samael did make me say those things. He hypnotized me so that I thought finding you and bringing you to him was the most important thing in the world, worth doing anything for. I had no choice. I said those things to the werewolf because I knew with her natural talents she would be able to find you, and I was sure I could get you to Samael once I had found you. Now, come along, we can discuss this inside instead of kneeling in a hall. And I have a friendly pig to help decurse if she promises to be good and not try to kick me in the head."

Annalee picks up Timmy, still half supporting him while holding Carmen in her other arm and practically pulls the group of them into the room.

CRUEL
DEFINITELY CURSED
CRYBABY
JEALOUS
NO TOUCH ME IM OBJECTION

DARKEST SELF

"Oh Timmy" Annalee gives him a big, pig-included group hug. "Samael did make me say those things. He hypnotized me so that I thought finding you and bringing you to him was the most important thing in the world, worth doing anything for. I had no choice. I said those things to the werewolf because I knew with her natural talents she would be able to find you, and I was sure I could get you to Samael once I had found you. Now, come along, we can discuss this inside instead of kneeling in a hall. And I have a friendly pig to help decurse if she promises to be good and not try to kick me in the head."

Annalee picks up Timmy, still half supporting him while holding Carmen in her other arm and practically pulls the group of them into the room.

What?! But that, that wasn’t, that hardly made any sense! What was going on?! Hadn’t he pointed out a terrible thing that she’d done? Wasn’t her behavior inexcusable? Why wasn’t she confessing when he had caught her red-handed?

All this and more ran through the mind of a confused, squirming Timothy as he was bodily dragged into Elodie’s vacant bedroom. (What was it about other people’s bedrooms and arguments tonight? Further evidence that he never should have left his room. Possibly ever.) Only then did he manage to extricate himself from Annalee’s constant violations of his personal space. “What is the matter with you, Annie?! Why are you acting so weird? I have had the worst night of my life, and, and you won’t even listen to me! Or - confound it all, speak normal to me!”

“Samael made you curse me? Then why did you leave me cursed for days on end? You had to protect yourself from him? Then why did you volunteer to let him feed on you tonight? With a winky face, no less!” The scandal! “You tried baiting a werewolf into hunting me down, because you were hypnotized into finding me, and you were sure that after the werewolf had mauled you and/or killed you, you’d be able to follow her, reach me first, and spirit me away to safety?!”

“I...I don’t even know where to begin with that one!”

Perhaps a wiser Timothy would’ve thought twice before losing his cool, alone, at a witch. But wiser Timothy had been left behind four disasters ago. All he knew right now was hurt and upset and confused and afraid, and his eyes wouldn’t stop burning, and his head was swimming, and, and...

“What’s this really about, Annie? Is this what your ‘competition’ with Elodie looks like? Has all this been to keep her in ‘second place?’” There’s that impression again. You did say as such in the caves, didn’t you? “Were you going to tell me I’d been volunteered as the grand prize, or should I expect another fantastical story there too?”

He crossed his arms sternly, the effect only slightly ruined by his quivering lip.

"Well?! What do you have to say for yourself?"

[Spending a String on Annalee to give her the Condition Liar]

WEREWOLF MAGNET
SECOND PLACE
2 XP

If Timmy could see this... but he isn’t here. The name of Mother Nature is Now. The name of the devil is Love. The name of the want in Elodie’s chest, burning, burning, is Margot.

She kisses her like the horizon kisses the dying sun.

[6 on Turn Margot On.]

DARKEST SELF
LIAR

"Oh my goodness." Annalee picks up pig-Carmen and turns her around so they can look each other in the eyes. "I think Timmy is jealous that I didn't spend time with him! Did you hear what he said? 'you left me be after Samael made you do a curse. You went with Samael instead of me. You played with a werewolf instead of me.'"

She looks at pig-Carmen and shakes her head sadly, but she's sure her new pig friend understands the need for attention. "Timmy, let's put all this behind us. I did what I could to protect you and I was magically controlled by a vampire for most of a day. We have a friend here to uncurse, and then we should get some rest and start a new fresh tomorrow. Don't you think that's better?"

[Rolling to shut down with the jealous condition. 2+2+3=7. Timothy, lose your last string on Annalee, but you can give her another condition.]