[God Quest] Delivery

the Voice "Such tricks are not difficult to see through, with the right eyes," she murmured gently to Bastien - and with Ludo's mask in her possession, seeing was hardly a problem at all. Her lips parted as he spoke - and thought - with such abandon, the Voice about to remind him of that small fact when he accepted the offer to ascend as though it were that simple. Wisely, she refrained from comment. "Wonderful," she said, the air around her sparking with her excitement. "First, there is another reward to give." Slipping down from the platform, the Voice moved to stand between the two men. Her hand reached out for Sam, fingers dancing along his jaw and down to his lips, pressing softly. "Your tongue will trouble you no longer, bright one," she murmured. And from within, it would appear to Sam that something crackled up the length of his spine and through his teeth, soothing and calming and lending beauty and song to his words where he had stumbled so often before. "Well done, Samuel. You are excused," she murmured to him, turning now to take Bastien's hands, gently lowering them to his sides. "This will hurt, but only for a moment. And it will be the last time pain will bother you." Carefully, she placed her fingertips against his temples. "Are you ready?" 01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00101100 00100000 01110111 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01100010 01100101 00101110