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Region: The Great Chili

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.

"They don't know who you are," Heimrich says as they walk under the trees. "And they don't want to know. They don't want to think that there's anything good in you. They see Vengeance as a monster that took Duncan from them. If you want to prove that there's more to you, and how much you want to prove you're desire to change, we have to use the few days we have wisely." He notably does not disagree with Vance's inward look at his past self, even before he had met Scotti, and is brutally honest with how Scotti's friends and Duncan's family saw Vengeance because it had to be plainly said for Vance to move forward. He knows full well that Vance already feels the same, which is why it must be not just accepted, but moved past. Vance isn't Vengeance. This is a fresh start, one that Vance is fully focused on and must not dwell in the past, as easy as it might be.

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