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Wabacha wrote:

It is hard to miss the pain Vance was going through as they walk back across the village. Heimrich had some unorthodox advice to give him to break the silence. "Everything you're feeling right now? Own it, and don't try and hide it. It's your proof you're human." Heimrich lets that sit for a few seconds before continuing. "The more intense that pain is, the more likely everything will work out in the end."

"Heimrich already has a plan for you to see her again," Alice trails back to walk next to Vance, to give him some hope.

"And it might be sooner than I thought. Scotti's real pissed. May only be another day or two before she's ready to come for my head. That'll be our chance." Heimrich looks back at Vance who's been trailing behind, with a determined grim grin. "That's when we put everything on the line."

Heimrich's strange advice was met with a kneejerk look of confusion, though a second was all it really took for Vance to consider it again and see reason in what he said. This pain, this heartbreak, it was necessary. It proved that he was alive, it proved that he was human. And looking at just how intense Scotti's pain was shining right now, along with his own, he really hoped that what Heimrich said was true about it working out in the end... Oh he really hoped that...

Alice's words having Vance quickly looking to her and then back to Heimrich. That small glimmer of hope growing. Though that encounter not ending in bloodshed would be a miracle... Right now Scotti believes that he is then same as that beast that Salem butchered him into at the Rematch. Heimrich was right, Scotti is really pissed. He's gotten to know Scotti... Really well... And he was right. A confrontation was soon to follow. And that was going to be difficult, Scotti wasn't going to hold anything back against him and Heimrich.

"Immediate problem, she and her echo chamber of buddies think I'm still the Godling beast. And most of them won't care to correct that way of thinking. Not that I blame them, I was a bastard before I started to become human." Vance says as Heimrich tells him that their chance will come in only a matter of days. It felt so sudden... But he needed to be ready.

He didn't shy away from the kind of beast he was before he started to wish for more, to be shaped by the feelings of another, to want to protect those feelings and wishes. He embraced them, they are who he was but he won't let that change who he is now.