Unbalance my State of Mind

He was there, when I woke up my first night back as what passes for myself. Pagtuk, sitting by my bed, smirking at me. My bed, in Thunder Bluff. The only demon I've ever summoned there was Darneth, to help protect Cairne on that dark day that Thrall fell. Yet, there he sat, that irritating, arrogant, annoying little brat. I dismissed him with a word, only to sit in stunned silence after he faded.

It hadn't been Orcish, nor even the more comfortable gutter-Common the Forsaken have adopted. I'd know, of course, that things had changed after my enforced stay in the Apothecarium. Not just in what I saw, but in what I understood. And it hadn't been the first time I'd spoken demonic words by accident. But the last time, I had been in Tabaqui's body, and had hoped…

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