//Once again sorry for the delay.
[X] "....Hello?"
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"Um... hello?" you call out, still looking for signs of a potential source for the mysterious voice, "Is someone there...?"
What do you think?
You glance around again when you hear the voice speak once more, "Seriously, you can come out now..."
Wait...
"...Wait for what?" you ask. Seriously, this is starting to creep you out now.
Oh, good. So you CAN understand me. Great! That makes things much simpler. The voice replies, Could you do me a favor and let yourself fall to despair again? I've been wanting to use the ink I collected during the last couple outings for quite some time now...
"...Um, no thanks." you frown, "I prefer not having any more blood on my hands thank you very much..."
And why not? Human blood makes a remarkably good ink, after all...
And that's a detail you could've gone without knowing...
You sigh and begin to think. So what you assume is your witch is living inside your head as a voice... Whether or not this will be a permanent thing, you don't know, but you should probably think of a way to manage it.
Glancing towards the city below, you wonder if you should find a library and look up books about multiple personality disorder... That's almost the same thing right? Maybe you could find something helpful in it?
If it's a library you want then just manifest the barrier... your witch complains, We have all the books we'd ever need in there... Though admittedly nothing you don't already know is written on their pages...
... ... ... ...
...Anyway, this is getting rather boring, so if you would be so kind as to cry your eyes out, I would really like to get to writing... or at the very least collect some more fresh ink. This city seems like the perfect place to get some, you know~?
"Look, I understand it must be boring having to basically backseat me." you say after a moment, "But please understand where I'm coming from: I'd rather not turn into a monster and kill people. Again..."
I mean technically it would be me doing the killing.
"But we share a body, though..." you sigh, "...What's your name anyway? If talking to you like this is going to be a thing then I might as well know what to call you."
What kind of stupid question is that? I'm you and you're me. We are both Mnemosyne, the Witch of Recordkeeping.
"...Memory? ...You're named after a greek goddess of memory?" you skeptically raise an eyebrow, "...That's a bit on the nose isn't it?"
It's not as if we had a choice in our name. It was bestowed upon us at the moment of conception. We simply are, and always have been, Mnemosyne...
"I see..." you blink "So wait, does that mean you could pick a different name if you wanted to?"
Our name cannot be overwritten. Any other name we take would not feel right.
"Alright then... Mnemosyne." you find the name a bit hard to roll off the tongue, "...Mind if I called you Nemmy for short or something."
Absolutely not!
"Alright, fine..." you blink, "...Though there really isn't anything stopping me from doing that, is there...?"
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...Could you... please... not call me something so... degrading? Mnemosyne seems to force out
Well, she did say please...
"Hmm, okay then..." you shrug, "Anyway, I guess if we're going to be stuck together like this we should probably come to an agreement on how things go moving forward..."
And what would I have to gain by reaching an agreement with you?
"Well, it would first depend on what you want from me." you think for a moment, "Actually, before you answer that I have to ask, what are you using your... ink... for anyway? What exactly are you writing that needs... uh... blood?"
Why, records, of course! the witch answers, Every moment... every bit of information... both good and bad, is precious. If they are not recorded and preserved inside the library then they will inevitably be lost to the sands of time forever, and that is something I cannot allow.
"Huh... that's actually kind of a noble goal to be honest... But you specifically need blood for this... because...?"
Well... it technically doesn't HAVE to be blood. ...It's just that human blood is the best and most plentiful, not to mention aesthetically pleasing to look at.
"I see..." You frown in thought.
Anyway, to go back to the earlier topic, it should be fairly obvious what I want from you.
"Yeah the whole driving me to despair again thing... right..."
You take a moment to think about what to offer your witch as an alternative...
[] Offer to share whatever stories she writes with others in exchange for her cooperation.
[] Offer to let her stretch her legs every once in a while, assuming she behaves whenever you do so.
[] Make an argument that cooperation would probably mean a higher chance of survival for both of you.
[] (Write-in?)