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It takes a lot of strength to avoid drawing your weapon here and now, challenging the creature who would strike down a legion of knights and decorate his home with their bones in such a morbid fashion. But you recognize that he is threatening you, and you are in no position to make yourself his enemy; it would simply rob you of what you came here for, which is your sister.
"You keep referring to your immortality as an affliction, or a curse," you say to Strahd, your voice unsteady from the morbid sight. "It is clear to me that these knights made a mistake in facing you. But..."
"But what?" he asks, his voice calm. He looks at you as he asks, searching for eye contact, which you reciprocate.
You shake your head. Strahd's curse is clearly a punishment - he said as much himself, calling Barovia his prison. It may be that his atrocities are what placed him here, and that his fate, on a personal level, is worse than that of Argynovst and his knights. "Nothing," you say. "Let's continue the tour."
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