we can play dead she said. it'll be fun.
and so we played like little children in the sun when it began to rain, and it wasn't as fun as it should have been. let's play again she said. i had fun. next time you can pick the game.
and we waited until the next day, and the next, and then she said let's play. and i asked what do you want to play? and she said anything you want anything at all.
and so i said lets fly we can be birds. but she didn't want to and she went home. so i stood in the rain by myself and played dead for her. but she never came back and i never saw her again.
i haven't believed in 'anything' since.

She nodded once, sharply, and left the shivering man in his cell. With any luck he would stay in his current reverted state; it wouldn't do to have the truth about her operation running loose. It might make the faithful doubt, and she had no use for followers who could think for themselves.

Besides, it was pleasant to have someone remember who she'd been, before. Every day more and more of the Light filled her, and she knew that it was only a matter of time before there was nothing left.

i think i believe in her now.
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Feelin' cultish lately...may do research for this one. Hmm...