The Drow Queen of Glaley [Very NSFW]

[Coquette Blacquin]

~no, it's nothing like that. Nothing... supernatural. Just... I don't know. I had to be so many things, and then, I had help.~

[NPCs]

Oh, I remember reading about that somewhere... what was it called? Dammit. ~I see. Do you remember how long ago this started?~

[Coquette Blacquin]

~Years and years. Before my children were born. I think before I left Glaley.~

[NPCs]

~During your childhood? Before puberty perhaps, or afterwards?~

[Coquette Blacquin]

~I... don't remember a lot of my childhood, but I don't recall being this way until I was a teenager.~

[NPCs]

Hmm. I need to track this down... I'll have to ask zi'Smith to point me in the right direction. Or Healer Janus, if zi'Smith is busy. Should I..? Yes.  ~I've actually read about this condition before, I think, but only in passing. I'll have to do some research to be sure. Well, and speak with you more about it, of course.~

[Coquette Blacquin]

~You don't think I'm... making things up, or, imagining things?~

[NPCs]

~No, not particularly,~ Seli replies frankly. ~Oh, I've been lied to enough to know it's a possiblity that you're making it all up, but I don't think that's the case. As for imaging it? Well, when one is dealing with purely mental conditions, it's a very blurry line.~

[Coquette Blacquin]

~...i've only ever told two people before, and both of them I trusted with everything I am first.~

[NPCs]

~Oh.~ There's a pause, then, with great warmth, ~then thank you. I know you didn't plan to tell me but you didn't lie to me when I asked and that's a show of trust that I truly, deeply, appreciate. Thank you, all of you.~

[Coquette Blacquin]

~It was mostly me,~ says Noire. ~Cindy's still spell-shy about the whole thing~ 

~I mean it's working out so whatever,~ says Cindy, sounding a little irritated to be thrown under the dragon's claw. 

[NPCs]

~It wasn't a... hmm... A team effort? You don't all have to agree to do things?~

[Coquette Blacquin]

Bitter laughter from Cindy. ~No. We almost never all agree. I'm the, uh... I'm calling it the host, like at a hotel? I am mostly in charge. But Noire is behind our day to day actions more and more. I'm... not that useful anymore, really.~

[NPCs]

~Day-to-day usefulness is a poor measure of someone's worth,~ Seli points out gently. ~Even aside from your value simply as a person, I'm sure you offer something to your... Sisters? Family?~

[Coquette Blacquin]

~Family; Cedric is male.~ A hesitant pause as she considers the rest of it. ~I suppose. I'm the most even-tempered one. I'm probably the original one, all these others came about because... well, because I needed to be someone else.~