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wished for some dear relative or acquaintance to take these grim tasks from my shoulders, but there was no one. I was alone, as in all things.
I learned: learned, then, that mastery is the gift that befalls the isolated and unhappy. There was no help forthcoming, so I learned to take complete and total control myself.
It has served me well.

When I am done, I look away, hastily blinking back tears.
"Ah," says Carmilla softly. "I see.
"It is only the past. No more than many have endured."
"And yet so much more than you deserved."