Cyril shakes his head. "I've never regretted it," he admits after a moment. "Even before I left, I had started doing reckless and stupid things." A pause, as he sips some of the drink.
"I used to track down bandits in the woods and seduce them. I would find smugglers and offer myself and my body to them without a care. The first time I had sex was rough and terrible and I bled for a couple days." He rubbed at his face for a moment. "Eventually, one of them would have turned out to only like women and would have killed me, or I would have gotten sick and died, or I would have pissed off the Keeper enough for her to expel me. Or, worst of all, I would have eventually married and settled down and then died slowly until the Venatori showed up and finished me off."
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"I used to track down bandits in the woods and seduce them. I would find smugglers and offer myself and my body to them without a care. The first time I had sex was rough and terrible and I bled for a couple days." He rubbed at his face for a moment. "Eventually, one of them would have turned out to only like women and would have killed me, or I would have gotten sick and died, or I would have pissed off the Keeper enough for her to expel me. Or, worst of all, I would have eventually married and settled down and then died slowly until the Venatori showed up and finished me off."