Drugs
only keep the urges numbed - quiet, and well-behaved. But it grows
more and more - like treating hunger with handfuls of candy...it's
instant gratification, but it doesn't do much for your actual hunger.
Eventually the taste of sugar makes you recoil, and all you can think
about is the meal you've been putting off.
That's
what it's like on a daily basis - a pervasive itch I can't reach -
though it used to be drugs, before I was corrupted. I was addicted to
mana, and I thought that was
bad. And it is - I'll never say it isn't. But that's a thing one can
have treated, and overcome with time and effort. Now? Am I more demon
than elf? I don't know anymore, but I know what demons feed on. I
know what they want, more than anything. I...