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the Voice
"Too far." She repeats with a bitter but pretty scowl on her youthful features. "Interesting how Caido was noticeably silent during all these warnings. " The Voice says, her voice casual even as she tries to twist the knife she holds a little more. "Perhaps this was foreseeable. But the story is not over yet."

Regarding Ludo quietly for a moment, the Voice's electric stare seems to wain slightly as she considers. "A soul for each new sight, is that it? And you would keep them as your own, until the time comes?"
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"Caido was silent long before the likes of you, and it was precisely because of the things your kind did," Ludo said smoothly. "And of course the story isn't over yet - but that doesn't mean you're still a main character. They may have all forgotten you out there. With any luck, anyway." It sneered. But it seemed as though they were actually getting to the core of the matter here, and it perked up to hear her out. Each new sight? Ugh. Hardly what it wanted, but still. Better than nothing.

"And the return of my mask," it said simply. "If that is done, we have an agreement. And yes, I will keep them until the time comes for them to return from whence they came. To see their families and their gods." And to be free of you.

LUDO
Braved the forests, braved the stone
Braved the icy winds and fire
Braved and beat them on my own



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the Voice
"I am sure that is what you and your lot tell yourselves...but when was the last time you even heard Caido's voice? I'd wager I have heard it more recently than you..." She said with a tempting smirk, sure that Ludo wouldn't take the obvious bait, but dangling it anyways.

"Maybe they have forgotten ... but what does that say about you? Does that mean they just never cared at all? To leave you to wither away in here with me?"

Raising her fingers, she tapped them against the mask. Electric blue shot out from where fingerprints might have been as she considered. I am their god. She thought with piercing acridity, though she did eventually nod.

"Fine. You have a deal."

Removing the mask, for a moment the Voice simply looked down into her the empty porcelain shell. Then, with a sigh, motes of blue light appeared around her. Ludo would see them for what they truly were, but for everyone else, it was mere static on the breeze. "I will kill you if you harm them." She said in a low, but serious voice.
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Ludo merely regarded her with a flat, ink black stare at her pitiful excuse for temptation. It shrugged its shoulders at her barbs, her questions, her attempts to rile it up again, having already decided that it would not allow that sort of thing a second time. "I will not wither," it said calmly. "A true god's energy is boundless. It is something you will never know, regrettably."

But they had a deal, and the mask was off and the souls - oh, the souls rose up like a song around her, trapped for long enough that it brought tears to Ludo's eyes. Inhaling deeply, a pulse of willpower had the motes of light rushing towards it, swarming like fireflies and settling on its skin. "I only bother the living with petty tricks," it muttered. "When you die, I shall collect your soul as well. What little of it there is left."

A wave of its hand and the mask would disappear from her fingertips, Ludo raising it to its face once more. Almost instantly, ribbons of deep shadow erupted out around it; it surged into the sky and was gone.

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LUDO
Braved the forests, braved the stone
Braved the icy winds and fire
Braved and beat them on my own



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