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Come in.

[She's standing a little nervously over the kettle, watching it closely.]

[Break comes in.]

Almost ready?

Yeah. Sit down and I'll bring it to you.

[He takes a seat.]

Where did you want me to start?

Why you did it. Why you - killed people.

[She settles the tea and Emily both onto the table in front of him.]

Real answers, not "I was selfish" or "because I wanted to."

All right. Do you know what a chain is, Katara? In the context of my world.

It's a sort of monster- they can form contracts with humans.

You made a contract with a chain?

[And she sits across from him at the table, not touching her tea.]

They can turn back time itself. If you feed them enough, they give you the power to undo the past.

Why did you make the deal?

When I was young, I was a knight of a noble family.

Go on.

[And she settles a little in her chair, waiting for the story.]

One night, I had left the household to visit the town- I rarely did. But on that night in particular, an assassin broke in and killed the whole family. The only survivor was the youngest daughter.

[Katara doesn't look shocked, simply sad for him.]

How old was she?

Oh- six, seven?

[He tries to remember.]

Too young. I couldn't care for her alone. I thought their deaths were my fault. And then Albus came and promised me that he'd turn time back for me, if I just kept him sated with blood- and I did.

And that's why you killed people.

[It's half a question.]

I did it. The world got turned back- and they weren't assassinated that year.

You saved them.

A few years later, the father was assassinated again. The youngest girl, who had survived? She became a contractor. She fed the rest of the family to her chain, before being killed by the contract herself, without managing to change any of it.

If I'd left it alone, she'd have lived.

Break, I --..

[How do you respond to something like this?]

How long ago was it?

Mm. Ninety years.

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How old are you?

Contractors don't age.

Do you still have to - do things? For the chain?

No. Albus is dead. I'm contracted to the Mad Hatter these days, and he isn't in Adstringendum.

[To her tea:]

Do you have to kill people for him when you're not in Adstringendum

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