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Yes. [This is a bit of an awkward way to have a conversation with someone, but he can tell she's uneasy, so he stays put.] I was hunting them, and while we were fighting some force or another hurled us together, and that's how I got this way.
They're stuck, basically. A magic user I traveled with considered it a "possession", but they don't control me. [That he knows about~]