We seem to be having difficulty understanding one another.

[they_took_my_boot]

Now see here, I am not some toy to be bandied about at your leisure-

No thank you, no tea just now.

As I was saying, I am a serious lady and I intend to be taken seriously.

No, really no tea.

Please I am trying to illustrate my point here and your continued interruptions are not helping. Now, where was I?

Oh yes! I must insist you give up on these foolish ideas and put me back where I belong! At once!

Thank you.

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[shadowswag]

[Shrugging is a thing today apparently. His shoulders kind of hurt from it.]

We're nothing really special. [Really not liking this.]

Think of us of personifications of someone's darkest secrets, all those little things that most people even lie to themselves about.

[they_took_my_boot]

That's a lot to take on by yourself. So, you are what we try to pretend isn't inside us? Do I understand you?

You say it's nothing special but I would beg to differ, it sounds quite involved!

[shadowswag]

Yeah, you're getting it. [Hunger, lies, deceit, anger... Shadows are lots of things and none of them are pleasant.]

I still think you're touched in the head.

[they_took_my_boot]

Forgive me for saying, but you seem rather less frightening than I would have imagined a Shadow to be by your description.

Perhaps it's a point of view difference rather than a question of my sanity.

[shadowswag]

I'm not your Shadow, so I don't really need to be. I'm custom-tailored to the human I came from. [He's not going to be spewing out secrets when the original isn't around to flip out about them.]

Your Shadow would look like you. You know- Besides having yellow eyes and all.

[they_took_my_boot]

Oh, I see! So each Shadow is a literal copy of the original. Well, that isn't fair, that makes you seem like some sort of...duplicate rather than your own person.

[shadowswag]

I'm my own person. [Touchy subject here.]

Wouldn't go around like my original did anyway. That guy shut himself in too much. [Which is kind of why he exists in the first place.]

[they_took_my_boot]

So then no need to call him an original and you a Shadow, you are just as original in your own way. And you seem perfectly likeable to me, once we started talking at least.

[shadowswag]

That's how we're called. Can't exactly call a Shadow a whole person considering we're only the bad parts.

[It's upsetting when you think about it- He prefers not to.]

Aren't we sort of getting really sidetracked here?

[they_took_my_boot]

I beg your pardon, I was simply curious about you, and you continued to be fascinating.

[shadowswag]

Cute. That's pretty much what "getting sidetracked" means. You know- going off-topic?

[they_took_my_boot]

Right, so the original topic was my wanting to be with my father or somewhere I belong.

[shadowswag]

I remember. And my point is, it's probably not going to happen any time soon. [Unlike earlier though, he doesn't sound as hideous about it.]

Take it from me, a mundane usually only operates as they wish themselves and you'll just tire yourself out if you try to resist.