Re: louis d/seven m
Her name was Zatanna, and yes, unfortunately she is no longer here. It was she that helped me out of my predicament. [...] I see.
The truth of it is that I was kidnapped by a cult and subjected to a number of enchantments. I was used as a sacrifice and marked as a channel for an old and traditional deity to do its work on earth. [...] To keep me from learning of this, a vital part of me was taken and imprisoned in a talisman. I eventually had it restored, but it took a year before anyone put it all together. I did not sleep in that year. The god used my body at night for its own work.
[...] This will all sound mad, I'm sure, but you know strange things are possible in these doors. All these things happened in Marvel. The branch of the cult that did this to me, they are all dead now. Their god killed them for deigning to try to use it directly for their own gain. But I do not believe they are all dead. I believe they operate in cells, interrelated but worshipping different gods, united in their study of magic for bad ends. I believe Liam may have been similarly affected by another cell of this cult, though not in the exact way I was. He seems to wake up in places and not know where he has been, and appears to have some memory of the cult members and some awareness of what's been done to him. Like me, he has forgotten much of it or is unable to speak of it.