34 | In which there is reflection [Dictated]

[strangewonders]

It's more than a little disconcerting to look back and find oneself rambling on about nonsense--I suppose the castle likes tricks like that. But our little bout of mass amnesia, mercifully short though it was, has piqued my curiosity.

Now, I like to think that, despite the interminably long time I've been here, I haven't let a castle with a mind of its own change who I am. But does everyone feel that way? Can we really even be certain how we feel about these things when they could just as easily be conjured up by this pile of stone and tricky magic? I'm not so sure I like that thought...

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[radiantwingedone]

[ Silence for a bit, because now he has to think on that. ]

... Someway similar, but still different, I think. Less options.

[strangewonders]

But not to the point where you'd think the differences were due to the Castle purposely changing your reactions?

[Pardon the persistent questioning, Duke. He's curious now.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ You keep asking questions that make him examine how he thinks. So yet another pause before he replies. ]

The castle itself? I think the only hand it has in altering reactions is those it brought here, and I have interacted with.

[strangewonders]

Hmm. Being exposed to different people does let a person change, that's true...

[Which he knows from experience, and not just from Paradisa, either. He just hadn't thought of it that way before.]