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[seeingscarlet]

[The camera's pointed at the ceiling at first, and for a few seconds there is only Wanda's ragged breathing. When she finally gets it centered on her face, it's obvious she is terrified and near tears. If Elizabeth hadn't been there...]

I saw it. That thing...

It-- he was like us and he changed and he can't go back. Doesn't want to go back.

[She buries her head in her other hand.] How can I make you understand? It would drain us all, kill us all if it can because it can. Because it likes the pain and the fear and...

[There's no hiding the rising note of panic in her voice and Wanda needs a few breaths to try to sort of compose herself again. It doesn't work.]

I felt it kill them...

Stay out of the dark.

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[realitywarped]

[...Loki understands all too well what it's like to be inside a head like that. He changed, once, stepped between his lines and became something that wanted mayhem and pain and couldn't even understand why he should want to go back. And that was his own head, not something alien.

So when he talks to Wanda, it's oddly gentle. A little flippant still, all the exaggerated gestures he usually uses there, but his voice is mostly free of mockery or sarcasm.]

Because it lives on pain and misery, and understands nothing else.

[He tilts his head, smile almost entirely too wry.]

You seem a little distressed, mistress Maximoff. Are you safe, or would you prefer a little company to wherever you need to get yourself to next?

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[hellsbel]

Wanda? Wanda? You're not alone, are you? Do you need help?

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[noassgardian]

Wanda? Where are you?

[He can't help the concern that's clear on his face, brows furrowed.]

Are you safe?