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She saw him tense up and she gritted her teeth. There was something about the way he was looking at her now that was truly angry, but she held her ground and kept her expression steady. "Me," she said.

At least it seemed he finally understood. "They're infected," she recited. "It helps them do terrible things. They could murder me or leave me cut in pieces but alive." The light in her voice was gone. It was flat now, somewhere between calm and resigned. She squinted, trying to remember if there was more. She didn't think she'd heard of starseeds yet, which was odd as Scholomance had specifically been trying to tell her all the gritty details. "I'm not sure about the starseeds, though," she finally said with a little shrug.

Then, she licked her lips nervously. "It's no reason to be cruel in return. Violence for violence, fighting for peace," she paused and shook her head, "It doesn't work like that."

She kept a careful eye on Faust, getting the feeling he wasn't going to agree.

Pendour shook her head slightly at his enraged question. "No, I don't know about starseeds," she said. At least it seemed like they were finally on the same wavelength, and if she needed to stay nice and concrete for him, she would.

Still, she couldn't help but squint a bit at the profanity-laden rant that followed. Even if she ignored all of the curses, she wasn't entirely sure what Faust was getting at. For example, she wasn't sure if she believed in reincarnation, especially as she had now quite literally seen a ghost, but here was Faust, talking as if he knew for sure what came after death. Slowly, she relaxed out of her tensed up stance to fidget with the end of her braid.

Still, she got the idea that her chest-gem was important, and that at least by the record of this one cat, the Negaverse was capable of some substantial horrors.

"Okay," she whispered. "Um, we don't have to talk to you about philosophy if you don't want to, that's fine." It would most likely just stress both of them out and not change either mind in the end.

At least if didn't seem like it would hurt Faust too much if something did happen to her, if she looked like a lost cause, but just in case, she did say, "Well, if something does happen, and you do have to fight me, know that the real me won't take it personally."

She nodded and gave a gentle smile. "We're cool."