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<span class="mu-s">“Yup. I helped save this Gorgon Queen a little while ago, and she lent me her phone, which gets service pretty much anywhere!”</span> you remarked, taking a moment to marvel at the compact little device.
<span class="mu-r">“Gorgon Queen!? Like, a Medusa, or something.”</span>
<span class="mu-s">“Pretty much, yeah.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“And she's, like, royalty?”</span>
<span class="mu-s">“I think so. She's the leader of the Amazon Tribe down here, and everyone seems to respect her a lot.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“Riiiight. Can we get back to the thing with your mom kidnapping you?”</span>
<span class="mu-s">“Huh? Oh yeah, sure.”</span> you said. <span class="mu-s">“So, it turns out that my mom has been running this government organization called ‘Cradle’, and she's been recruiting all these super-kids to work for her. Some of those kids jumped me at a construction site, and I was totally whooping their butts for a minute, but then this army of zombie soldiers trapped me in a shuttle and brought me back to their base.”</span>
Wanda gasped with an appropriate amount of shock.
<span class="mu-r">“And you actually made it out?”</span>
<span class="mu-s">“Yup. My mom showed up wearing some weird getup, and she asked for me to meet her in her private quarters.”</span> you continued. <span class="mu-s">“We unmasked, we cried, and then we started catching up.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“Aww, that's so sweet! I think…”</span>
<span class="mu-s">“Yeah. It got a lot less sweet when my mom told me that I'm half fox demon.”</span> you said in a flat tone.
<span class="mu-r">“What, like a hidden bloodline!? You're so lucky…!”</span>
You sat there sputtering for a moment, genuinely taken aback by her reaction.
<span class="mu-s">“Lucky!? I've got white hair, animal ears and bag-lady claws!”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“That sounds like a pretty easy cosplay…”</span> Wanda muttered.
<span class="mu-s">“Wanda, this is serious! I can't go to school like this!”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“Why? Can't you turn back?”</span>
<span class="mu-s">“Well…I can, but-”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“Then why’s it such a big deal? Ooh! Does it come with any new powers!?”</span>
<span class="mu-s">“Well…I'm stronger, faster, I've got sharper senses, I heal faster…”</span>
With each improvement you named, you found yourself getting quieter and quieter, because you just knew that anything you said would only prove Wanda's point.
<span class="mu-r">“Oh no. The absolute horror of it all. What a terrible curse you've been burdened with…”</span> Wanda said in the flattest tone that you could ever recall her using with you.
<span class="mu-s">“Okay, so it’s not all that bad.”</span> you begrudgingly admitted. <span class="mu-s">“But it still sucks how my mom kept it from me for so long. Also, it turns out that my mom never even believed in Khonshu! Unbelievable!”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“Okay, now <span class="mu-i">that’s</span> a serious issue?”</span>
<span class="mu-s">“Really? <span class="mu-i">That’s</span> the one you care about?”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“Absolutely. It’s one thing to force a religion on a kid, but to do it without even caring about the religion in the first place? I’m sorry, but that’s psychopathic behavior.”</span>
<span class="mu-s">“Sociopathic, maybe.”</span> you murmured. <span class="mu-s">“And the religion wasn’t <span class="mu-i">forced</span> on me. It was just…introduced to me at an early age.”</span>
<span class="mu-r">“Uh-huh…”</span>
<span class="mu-s">“Shut up.”</span>
