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A moment of your time while we await the next wave of...whatever forces come our way. Let's share our findings, please - there have been many pieces moving on this board.

We know from Wrathion that the Huntress credits the Man in White for her powers, but despises him. Some of us have witnessed her somehow ripping out her heart and cutting it into pieces, and handing it to Miang-Si to bury them around Yancai - she mentioned it would make her powers take root.

A word of warning: do not touch the heart slivers with your bare hands. They hold powerful magic, and we can probably fairly assume this to be necromancy, and may sway you to - well. Eat it. I don't recommend doing this part either.

Red and I healed one of the beasts that hunt for her in the woods, and he (I am unclear if it's a he, but it feels unfair to call it an 'it' when he's been so helpful) took us to the hiding place of one sliver. On the way we unearthed a box that belonged to the Huntress and inside it a lock of hair, black hair - which possibly belonged to her son. It feels odd that she would still hang onto that, considering that she gave him into the care of the House of Ravens. Was this a demand from Matthias in exchange for power, or just zealotry?

Either way, there was a location engraved on the box, Kathul - we can thank Red for cleverly figuring out it was a location. It's south of here, and might yield nothing but also might unravel some mystery so I thought it was worth sharing with the rest of us.

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That's really sweet of you. Both things.

Mostly, it seems to have given me some connection to the Huntress so like abilities related to her.

I don't actually know what will happen the next time we run into her though. I'm guessing she'd be able to sense I devoured her heart.

No offense, but I don't think we should let it come to that. As bad of a time as I had, being compelled to listen to her commands, I don't think you'd be easy to face if you're in her thrall.

[ It's a compliment. ]

Spent enough of my existence under Hades' control so I'm not really lookin for a repeat experience here up top among the living where there's people I care about.

But it also gave me some powers related to her like I could tell where she was for a long fuckin' while when she was running away, I could feel her emotions, I know which of the Undead are hers, and I can control some of them. We can probably use that, but I wouldn't want to get near enough to her that she can take me for a spin.

No, definitely not. You can control some of her dead?

As in, what, you can tell them to stop attacking and they do?

I can tell them to do just about anything within their capabilities to do it and they do it so yeah. I don't know how many I could control at a time, but I can.

They're not interested in attacking me at all, and I walked through a whole group and they parted for me like I was royalty or some shit.

I am impressed. A little shocked too - kind of like when you scarfed down the parcel.

I'm sorry about that. I should not have been digging for a piece of a heart with my claws. It was not a good idea. Precision is required in the future.

Do you realise that was the first time you showed me your form?

Not in the moment. I know it used to be a scarier thing for me when I was- I guess young in living-in-the-real-world years: telling people about that part of myself.

I happen to remember you reacted incredibly chill about it when I told you. For as nervous as I'd been to do it.

You couldn't hear the sound of my mind spinning, but - yes, I remember. [ softly ] How could I not remember? The one moment of calm in all of Alem.

A quiet moment in the middle of Hell. I sure had timing on the revelation. I'm glad I came back so you could actually see it. ( and in general, she's just... glad she came back even if so many decades passed by in between, even if she was made to forget. )

I'm glad you came back in general.

I'm really glad I did too. It was shitty not remembering any of this.

Yes, imagine how tragic it would have been for me not to find out how incredible your hair would get when you're older.

A true tragedy for all parties involved honestly. Thankfully the beacon decided to punt me forward a couple of decades to make that not an issue.

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