Camp: private conversations

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I know how to contain it. Defeating it has not come up yet.

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...Is it because you're containing us?

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I'm containing that thing, not you.

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...So It is the cause of the infection. [Hn...] But what about those who are infected?

What do we become?

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Nothing, until you die.

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I'd hardly call people constructed of petoskey "nothing."

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Has that happened to anyone still alive yet?

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I don't know. Was Dan dead?

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He certainly was after Lillith got to him.

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What was he before Lillith killed him?

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Probably, with how far gone he was.

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Why aren't you answering my question properly?

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I am answering your questions. Just because you don't like the answer you are getting doesn't mean it's not an answer.

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You're avoiding it.

I know they aren't golems. What are people made of petoskey really?

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I already told you, they're dead.

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[He makes a frustrated sound.]

Then why are the dead able to walk around and speak to us?

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They're not. That's not them in there.

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We've... heard them, though. [By some accounts anyway.] Their real selves, struggling through the stone.

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And I'm telling you, that's impossible. When somebody dies in this world, their soul leaves their body. It's gone. There's no coming back from that.

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And you're certain it's impossible for any fragments to be trapped by the stone - or whatever it is truly inside - as well?

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I'm very certain. I've checked many, many times before.

[Look. She gets attached to campers sometimes. Of course she's going to look for proof that they're still there.]

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You've... never heard the voice, have you?

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No, it only speaks to campers.

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We heard Talcott's voice today announcing the... motive, for the week. He sounded regretful.

Is that part of the mental effects of thisbplace?

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I believe so, yes.