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As you catch yourself slipping back into a run, you are still wrestling with this when it occurs to you of all of the time that you and father have spent together burgling the burying grounds of the Mount, there are actually very few times that come to mind where you were on hand when anything was reinterned; and the reinternment was just him telling you what grave the remains of the remains came from, while he went elsewhere to work on fresher graves. The rest of the time, he would do the reinternments himself. Or at least, he said that is what he was doing. You hadn't really had much time or even the wherewithal to think about it, but if you take it as truth that the Constructs that the Inquisition recovered from that unlicensed cockpit were your father's Witchwork, and they were made from 'swag' taken off of the Mount's burying grounds, then it forces you to ask the question where exactly he got the material to make them from, if everything he brings back to the Belfry is ultimately reinterned, unless it is not in a state safe to bury.
You ... you know that you are not a moral or Clean sort. But your whole life, you have been telling yourself that had things only been different, had you not been born into the Mysteries - or if you had been born comfortably before the Strangeness, you would have been. Somewhere along the way, you just ... assumed that your father was the same. But after this ... you don't see how you can do that anymore. For father - or you. Because it isn't just father who has been doing these things; you have killed people, you have cremated remains. Perhaps you have not killed as many, but you have most assuredly not killed none. And perhaps you didn't manage to Unmake that unfortunate Comptroller, but you consigned him to the flames knowing full well that could happen. His sins mirror your own.
> Please choose ONE of the following:
> And what are the wages of these sins? After everything you have done, you are still on the precipice. These half-measures, these fantasies of decency - they are going to get you killed, or worse, captured. Perhaps being a Witch isn't a sin, but living as one here and now is necessarily sinful. If you cannot accept that, if you cannot ... accept what you are and what you have to do to survive, then you are just wasting your time. [Survival]
> Just as the Mysteries have been made a Trial by the Strangeness, living as a Witch has been made a Trial by the world at large. And you now see how it is a Trial that you have been failing. But failing is not failed. So long as you are alive, turnabout and reversal are only impossible if you refuse to try for them. So then, believe that you can be better than your father, then set out and actually be better than him. [Praxis]
