Ah. Feel free to continue as you like, then. Anybody who thinks that those things really come "for free" only has themselves to blame.
[Douman has learned that the hard way. Even though he had been prepared and paid the price in advance with his humanity as a whole, the full consequences of his wish had still hit him like a sledgehammer and left him with a trauma or two. It had been worth it in the end, since that one wish had given him the time needed to realize his goals with his own power... But sometimes the monkey's paw that curls still pierces his back rather than scratches it.]
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Anybody who thinks that those things really come "for free" only has themselves to blame.
[Douman has learned that the hard way. Even though he had been prepared and paid the price in advance with his humanity as a whole, the full consequences of his wish had still hit him like a sledgehammer and left him with a trauma or two. It had been worth it in the end, since that one wish had given him the time needed to realize his goals with his own power... But sometimes the monkey's paw that curls still pierces his back rather than scratches it.]