"Turn them off and on, yes. I discovered that not too long ago."
He anticipated her confusion. The question comes as no surprise. The answer may come as one to her, however.
"Because I had already learned to accept them as a part of myself by the time I learned I could banish them. It took effort. I relearned how to stand, sit, walk, fight with a sword. Anything that required balance at all. And I learned to use them as an extension of myself. I can still feel them now, like a phantom limb. To erase them after all of that would be to erase the effort it took to live with them. They are part of me, and I will not forsake them."
He sighs, and then speaks the word to bring them back. "Drake." And so they reappear and somehow he seems to be standing more at ease with them back than when they were gone.
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He anticipated her confusion. The question comes as no surprise. The answer may come as one to her, however.
"Because I had already learned to accept them as a part of myself by the time I learned I could banish them. It took effort. I relearned how to stand, sit, walk, fight with a sword. Anything that required balance at all. And I learned to use them as an extension of myself. I can still feel them now, like a phantom limb. To erase them after all of that would be to erase the effort it took to live with them. They are part of me, and I will not forsake them."
He sighs, and then speaks the word to bring them back. "Drake." And so they reappear and somehow he seems to be standing more at ease with them back than when they were gone.