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[ He should have expected it to come to this. It's no lie he hasn't had to say before. But lying about it now seemed wrong and unfair in a way. Let people help him and stand by him Adele had said. He was going to try because...he couldn't do it on his own, not here at least. Helios looks...physically pained when she asks that. His hand balls into a fist as he hears Elise's screams ring through his ears and he can remember the smell of her blood in the air.

He looks away, distant too, for a moment. ] It was...something else. A s-summoning spell of mine went very wrong. And it-it attracted Apep instead of the demon I meant to contact. [ He takes in a shaky unsteady breath of air. ] It was an...accident. I-I didn't, I didn't mean for it to happen like that. And Apep he...

[ he bites his lip and shakes his head. He shouldn't be discussing such things when he was trying to make her feel better. It hurts to even talk about as evident of his pained expression. But the unspoken truth is still there and there's more to the story than just that. He blinks away the quickly forming tears from his eyes. ] He t-took away someone very dear to me.

[ More than that. He took a part of his soul and the one good honest thing he had in his life. She was gone just like that. ]