"Connectivity"
By bardysseus (https://pastebin.com/u/bardysseus)

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Created on: Saturday 17th of September 2011 02:03:17 PM CDT
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[22:21:48] <Charm> <Well now...I suppose you are the other one. I sense...conflict, my dear. Care to explain?> the voice is gravelly, but somewhat comforting. Certainly wasn't gonna mindrape her or anything. 
[22:22:52] <Lilo> <It's pretty simple; Noire's crazy and you're dead.>
[22:23:11] <Charm> <Or maybe you just aren't interested in shooting the breeze with some old biddy who's been dead for tens of centuries. I suppose I can understand that.>
[22:23:49] <Lilo> <I don't think there's much breeze in here.>
[22:24:23] <Charm> <...Fair point. As to your friends inner demon...it troubles you, yes?>
[22:25:03] <Lilo> <How could it not?>
[22:25:41] <Charm> <Of course it would. Can't blame you. But...there is more to it than that. A deeper connection than just concern for her ability to not slip again.>
[22:26:28] <Lilo> <No idea what you're talking about.>
[22:26:54] <Charm> <I'm sure you do...but perhaps you don't know that you know.>
[22:27:15] <Charm> <What I can tell is that you're afraid. Of her, in some forme or another. 
[22:27:39] <Lilo> <I'm not afraid of her, I'm afraid of what's not her.>
[22:29:13] <Charm> <And that brings us back to her inner demons. Although truth be told there is only one. And Noire, as you call her, has shown that she is capable of controlling said demon. You needn't worry about that.>
[22:29:30] <Charm> <And yet, I sense you fear it regardless. Why is that?>
[22:29:50] <Lilo> <She's not acting like the same person.>
[22:31:18] <Charm> <Ah...you are used to only seeing one side of the coin at a time. She is trying to balance the sides on her own, and as a result she is taking on some aspects of her darker self. But that does not change who she is, or what she wants.>
[22:33:13] <Lilo> Waves of indecision emanate from Lilo, <I see... Is that the connection you were talking about? Between her two sides?>
[22:34:46] <Charm> <To an end, yes. But it seems like you have grown attached to the pure white half of the girl, when she is doing her best to level out her light and dark sides. It will not be an easy task, of course. But one she must face alone.>
[22:36:13] <Lilo> <Uh huh. What about the break in--do you know anything about that?> Change of topic initiated
[22:37:25] <Charm> <Sadly, I don't. I may be a mage of legend, but the fact still remains that I've not had a physical, mortal forme in millennia. The cave around me could have been vaporized and I'd be none the wiser.>
[22:38:30] <Lilo> <Well, then... I guess it was nice meeting you.>
[22:39:02] <Charm> <Likewise. The three of you have been such good listeners...I should thank you.>
[22:39:32] <Charm> Lilo feels a swell of magic run through her as her hands are forced off of the slab.