[Oh. That was a surprising thing to be told just now. He's almost not sure what to make of it.]
[But no...he has learned, hasn't he? That he must strike back to defend himself. That to be helpless means death. He is no warrior, but ...he knows that to die would be to fail everyone who has ever shown him love. He can't abide such a thing.]
[If that means he has to become something he finds hard to recognize later....well.]
...
[This person is very interesting. He does think maybe there is something familiar about him after all.]
To survive, one must wear masks. To do so, even an ugly monster can live happily in a land of fairies, undetected.
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[But no...he has learned, hasn't he? That he must strike back to defend himself. That to be helpless means death. He is no warrior, but ...he knows that to die would be to fail everyone who has ever shown him love. He can't abide such a thing.]
[If that means he has to become something he finds hard to recognize later....well.]
...
[This person is very interesting. He does think maybe there is something familiar about him after all.]
To survive, one must wear masks. To do so, even an ugly monster can live happily in a land of fairies, undetected.