No, no - I know these kinds of things are real. I've had experience with similar forces in the world I came from. You're not crazy.
[Except the forces she contended with weren't quite the same. They ruined lives, drove people to insanity, stacked the deck in such a way that those born under the influence of the Walled City never had a chance at all. But it was highly localized and, ultimately, had a physical form that could be killed. At it's root, it was a curse that manifested in ways that damaged the psyche.]
[She has no reason not to believe him, either. Why lie about something like this? Tim didn't seem the type to want pity from others and he'd probably guessed by now that if he wanted that he was barking up the wrong tree with Gobbet.]
Do you still lose time like that? Even all the way out here?
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[Except the forces she contended with weren't quite the same. They ruined lives, drove people to insanity, stacked the deck in such a way that those born under the influence of the Walled City never had a chance at all. But it was highly localized and, ultimately, had a physical form that could be killed. At it's root, it was a curse that manifested in ways that damaged the psyche.]
[She has no reason not to believe him, either. Why lie about something like this? Tim didn't seem the type to want pity from others and he'd probably guessed by now that if he wanted that he was barking up the wrong tree with Gobbet.]
Do you still lose time like that? Even all the way out here?