>>17946225Real.
>>17946038You and Anina end up answering at the same time.
"FRIENDS! POWER OF FRIENDSHIP!"
"HUBBIES! P-POWER O-OF B-B...B-BACK-RUBBING!"
Which sparks a back-and-forth between you and the maniac, it's almost like she could have sworn you were going to say some cutesy variation of the word 'wife'.
"Interesting answers, children. But not what I'm looking for, I was more or less thinking of
time. The more time you have, the more time you have to do some of your most favorite things in the world..."
The underlying tones of this conversation's atmosphere start to get significantly darker. Purrloin purrs in Anina's lap, snuggling up to the young witch.
"I needed more time since my immortality was gone, so do you want to know what I did to get it back...?"
"I'm kinda afraid to ask..."
The deformed hag walks up to the hut's left eye and looks out into the woods and St. Groatiuhm,
"I placed a powerful spell on the town about fifty years ago, stunting the passage of time and growth of everyone there. The villagers feel older but they never /look/ older, so they never know why they keep getting tired or sick more and more often.""All that life force I'm sucking up is going to /me/. That's why I'm still alive, some fifty years later. Isn't it the grandest scheme you've ever heard?" 