one's never going to let go of that wire
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The Demon Realm — apparently that is what it’s called — is still terrifying, but—less so, with Veralyn at his side. He… he doesn’t handle it very well. He doesn’t know how to handle it. Because it’s just that, just a realm like his own, full of people and families and schools and houses, just like Hartford. In a way, Bonesborough is almost charming; sure, it’s a lot rougher than he's used to, but he thinks he can understand the appeal of it.
But it hurts his head, trying to make sense of it all.
Witches aren’t evil. But they are, he’s known they were since he can remember knowing anything. But they aren’t. They’re just people, maybe, who are capable of magic. Spell circles. Bile sacs. No devil hellbent on the destruction of humanity, at least not in the witches’ actions.
He doesn’t handle that realization very well, either.
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When Caleb Wittebane is five years old, his mother is accused of witchcraft.
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- Part 1 of one's never going to let go of that wire
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The first time the palisman souls speak to him, he genuinely thinks they’re God Himself, gifting Philip, his most devoted follower, a chance to convene with the Lord Almighty and rewarding his utmost belief. God, of course, cannot see him right now, not in Hell, but Philip doesn’t like to remember that, doesn’t like to think about how alone he is here.
It starts quiet (doesn’t everything?), just a whisper in the back of his head, going, "Phi—lip, Ph—ilip, Phil—ip. Philip, who are you?"
They claw their way into his memories and rip out his darkest moments, attacking him with them over and over again. They whisper blasphemies of the mother he doesn’t remember, tell him she didn’t deserve the end she got and that perhaps he’s the evil one. They tell him his old friends in the Human Realm will have forgotten him by now. They taunt him with images of his brother, of the red cardinal, and they promise to haunt him forever.
Then they dig into his memories of the Word of God, and a particular story he’d been fascinated with as a child, and—
"CAIN," they begin to call him.
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- Part 2 of one's never going to let go of that wire