Blood Sickness

"One other," Isla murmured, "but he was your polar opposite. I don't think I care for him very much." She frowned, very much not wanting to think about Archebold or any of the conflicting emotions he awoke in her. She smiled at his comment, her hands placed politely in her lap. She nodded gently. "Yes," she said, "it does sound like that, doesn't it?" Absently smoothing out her tunic, Isla glanced away for a moment. "Shortly after the new shrine was discovered in the Underground, I paid it a visit. I needed to know what it was, how it changed things for the people of this place... And I Ascended, whilst I was there. Please, though - don't feel bad for me. For all of its drawbacks, it's allowing me to help more people in the long run." ISLA pray for me pray to me