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- I needed a form that the kids would feel comforted by. They tended to trust women better than men, and beautiful women better than ugly ones. I created an illusion of myself as a beautiful woman with long flowing silver hair, and then I slipped through a portal I opened a moment later. I had tentacles attached to the wall on the other side, and I leaned out of the portal.
- “Do not fear children,” I said, and my voice was glittering, beautiful. “Come with me and be saved.”
- I must have looked like a Disney Princess to them, with a gown that glittered with its own light, illuminating me in the darkness. I could hear people shouting up at me from below.
- ***
- Glamour wasn’t just an illusion; it had a mild form of mastery. Unlike parahuman mastery, it wasn’t something that couldn’t be thrown off, but to an unsuspecting mind it could work quite well. I knew what to say and how to say it to get the kids to trust me, but sometimes that wasn’t enough. I didn’t need them to be so terrified that they tried to squirm out of my grasp fifty feet over hard concrete.
- ***
- Inferno
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