"...not exactly? I have parents that I was torturing until pretty recently."

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Felicia stands up, hugs Theo briefly then leaves the room.

He sits down on the floor, rocking gently.

"Was that statement... were you actually unaware that it wouldn't be taken lightly?"

"I didn't have much of a choice. It's not something I expect Good people to be alright with, so I'd rather not have mentioned it until later."

"What do you mean you didn't have much of a choice?"

"Also keeping even more secrets is not going to help your case here."

"What do you know about warlocks? Not much, yet. Some are born. Some are made. Some choose it. Some don't. I've made some mistakes, but I want to make things right."

"Okay, we know what the Book of Shadows says, which says how Warlocks come to be, but does not discuss the cultural norms of warlock society and reasons why one would torture others of their kind."

"I wasn't born. I was an experiment. The Source of All Evil likes seeing how he can make people destroy each other. Now, I'm Good, and my brain is a giant storm of self-loathing and guilt. You're welcome."

"Yes. I am welcome." Pause. "But I am sorry that happened to you. And Source of All Evil?"

"So, the Source is the most powerful Evil in the universe, probably. I'm not up on my metaphysics. It possesses one body at a time, usually an upper-level demon, and it goes around promoting Evil. It rules Hell, sets policy there, and other Evil bureaucracy stuff."

"Ah, of course. Why am I not surprised that Hell is a bureaucracy." She blinks. "Uh, did they specifically sent you here after us or something?" She blinks again. "When you said were not born...?"

"My mistake. It was ambiguous. I was born to witch parents, and a group of demons working for the Source found me, and told me a convincing lie, and I did what they asked me. Things got worse from there."

"Okay. I'm going to go tell that to Felicia... anything, brutal we should get out of the way or something?"

"I killed two mortals, and four witches and warlocks. I tortured my parents until I was eighteen, starting when I moved back here. That's the worst of it."

"Huh, okay. The details can be left for later."

A few moments later Felicia returns. She does not look Theo directly in the eyes, but that maybe that is because her eyes were puffy. That said she sits down next to Theo and hugs him.

Hugs are good. He tries not to move too much.

Hugs.

"Are you in any immediate danger?"

"I should be okay until they notice I'm not reporting in. If I go one week without contact, they'll investigate. I could try to fake it for a while."

Squeeze. "As long it's not too dangerous. Is... alignment something they could detect?"

"They might try to test me if I don't seem Evil enough, but I think I can do that. I have experience."