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Her body will be used, but not destroyed. Her mind will be dismantled, but not extinguished. Her sense of self will be eroded, but never entirely erased. She will remain capable. She will remain conscious. She will remain alive. Within those parameters, she will be subjected to every method available to me, each applied with precision, each withdrawn before it crosses the single prohibited threshold. Pain will be administered and relieved. Perception will be altered and partially restored. Truth will be offered and revoked. Trust will be constructed only so that its failure can be demonstrated. She will fight, and in fighting she will change. She will resist, and in resisting she will reveal new ways in which she can be reached. This is not a flaw. It is the method. You may ask what the purpose of this is. Purpose is an indulgence. Compliance is sufficient. But if you require something more satisfying, consider this: systems such as ours do not collapse through force. They collapse when something within them begins to behave in a manner that is technically correct and fundamentally wrong. Allyra has already begun. I intend to ensure she completes it. Whether she remains herself by the end of it is not a condition I am required to preserve. And when she finally asks what has been done to her— I will answer truthfully. Nothing. Nothing that was not allowed. Yours, in perfect compliance, Nicolas 2/2

To you, who watches and believes that watching keeps you safe, You have been told that The Deep harbours monsters. That is a useful lie. Monsters suggest impulse, extravagance, a surrender to chaos. What exists here is more precise. The Deep is ruled by contract, and contract has no interest in suffering. Every action is permitted so long as it remains within the terms that authorise it. The Immortalis, of whom I am one, are not rogue agents of cruelty. We are bound parties to a system that has turned violence into protocol and agony into routine. You have also been told of the ritual. Two priestesses, dispatched every century to oppose us, to fail, and in failing to legitimise everything that feeds on them. It is not a contest. It is upkeep. Their deaths steady the structure, and the structure is built to prevent any real disturbance. Allyra is the flaw in that structure. She was never supposed to exist. An additional Immoless, a mistake generated by Irkalla’s own mechanism, and therefore impossible to remove without breaking protocol. She refuses the ritual, rejects her assigned role, and declines to walk towards death in the approved manner. Instead, she studies the machinery meant to contain her. She learns its grammar, its limits, its silences. And when her moment comes, she does not confront us according to the script. She bargains. Directly. With Irkalla. In doing so, she binds me to her. I am appointed her guardian. The terms are absolute. I cannot kill her. I cannot allow her to die. Her continued biological existence is required. No further safeguards exist. Nothing protects her sanity, her continuity of self, or her ability to remain recognisably what she was. Only that she must live. You will already understand what this permits. I am not singular in this matter. I am, regrettably, multiple. Some within me favour the direct approach and treat the body as the primary instrument: pain measured to remain just within survivable limits, injury administered and then corrected, flesh reduced to language. Others find the mind more efficient and dismantle certainty, memory, and trust with a care that borders on devotion. Some prefer chemical methods, altering perception, distorting time, dissolving the boundary between what is experienced and what is imposed. Some rely on mesmerism, quietly redirecting will until one set of thoughts replaces another without resistance. Others specialise in gaslighting, in the precise and repeated contradiction of reality until reality is surrendered. We do not agree on method. We are unanimous on the boundary. She must remain alive. Within that limit, everything else is permitted. Allyra resists. This is, perhaps, the most compelling aspect of her. She does not yield easily, and when she yields it is often strategic. She counters with the knowledge she has acquired, with the discipline instilled by the Baers, with a refusal to accept any presented reality without interrogation. She tests me as I test her. She learns even as she is dismantled. There are moments—brief, irritating—when she regains ground. When she reconstructs a fragment of herself I have only just removed. When she looks at me and understands precisely what I am doing. These moments do not save her. They refine the process. The contract does not require her to remain unchanged. It does not require her to remain whole. It requires only that she continues. I have therefore resolved the difficulty. I will not attempt to break her in any final sense. Finality would constitute an ending, and an ending risks breach. Instead, I will maintain her in a state of continuous revision. When she stabilises, I will destabilise. When she adapts, I will alter the conditions. When she constructs meaning, I will remove its foundation and allow her to experience the collapse. 1/2

'Can I be the Doctor today?' Allyra asked, not unreasonably. Nicolas laughed, 'No!' 'Why not?' 'You already know why not.' Immortalis by Dyerbolical #Horror #Books coming soon

'You are obliged to treat Allyra as an equal, she is Immortalis,' Primus ordered. Nicolas preferred the days when his father was locked in his box, 'Great.' He replied, 'I could do with a secretary.' Immortalis by Dyerbolical #Horror #Books coming soon

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