bestamontillado: You've got to be a monster too (To be your own man -)
Daemon Spade ([personal profile] bestamontillado) wrote in [community profile] arcanarum 2012-05-06 08:45 pm (UTC)

That's what makes an illusion dangerous even to people who know what they're facing - that they can make your own senses lie to you to give them power.

[He gives her shoulder a gentle squeeze with one hand - a physical reminder of his presence.]

Focus on what you know is false about it, and what the reality is. I don't belong here at all, and you remember how things actually went; the flaws will weaken it, and even if your senses are deceiving you, faith in what you know to be real will push it back.

[He knew he'd gotten out as easily thanks to long practice and experience, and that it could be incredibly difficult for someone with no familiarity with it...but as couched as it was in belief, the stronger she believed she was against it, the more likely she'd overcome it, enough that warning her how hard it could be to overcome a powerful illusion would be counterproductive.]

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