[Her eyes drop to the ground--it's not that she minds being open with Nanaly, but it's still a difficult subject.]
No. Once the change is wrought, there is no going back. They are reduced to their basest instincts--to seek out the aether of other living beings to satisfy their hunger. They seek only to feed and multiply. [Except for [jet engine noise], but that's not pertinent to this conversation.]
The boy you saw, Halric... he had been touched by their corruption as well. Not like Tesleen, but a sin eater had planted a seed of light within him as a seed in soil. Those cases were just as difficult to bear witness to.
[That gets a humorless chuckle out of Alisaie.] It was worse than what you saw, actually. Shortly after, Alphinaud and I assisted a few others in the evacuation of a town under attack from the sin eaters.
[...]
Tesleen was one of them.
[So, uh. They worked that out, if you wanna phrase it that way...]
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No. Once the change is wrought, there is no going back. They are reduced to their basest instincts--to seek out the aether of other living beings to satisfy their hunger. They seek only to feed and multiply. [Except for [jet engine noise], but that's not pertinent to this conversation.]
The boy you saw, Halric... he had been touched by their corruption as well. Not like Tesleen, but a sin eater had planted a seed of light within him as a seed in soil. Those cases were just as difficult to bear witness to.
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I'm sorry. Seeing someone slipping away slowly hurts a lot, but losing someone so quickly and unexpectedly has to be just as hard.
[ Especially if they're still there but as something barely recognizable. ]
If there's anything unresolved between you, I guess you don't have any chance to work it out.
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[...]
Tesleen was one of them.
[So, uh. They worked that out, if you wanna phrase it that way...]
But I know she's at peace now.