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[jermastrat]

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[galvanist]

If this is the perception of himself he has, clearly it isn't basic fact to everyone. You're trying to break through a lifetime's worth of indoctrination. It isn't going to be easy.

[jermastrat]

A lie spoken often enough becomes truth, I can assure you it is a lesson I already know quite well. I would repeat the truth then a hundred thousand times over and smother that lie to death, I'd be happy to do so.

[There's a bite to the words that border on almost righteous anger, as if personally offended at the idea that Balthiel would have had to endure such a vile untruth.]

[galvanist]

Father figures are absolutely stellar at that particular lie. If you're prepared to repeat the truth as long as it takes, you don't need any more advice from me. Just--don't give up on him. Don't give him hope that he can be more than what he's always been told he's for if you can't keep reinforcing that.