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lancer (diarmuid ua duibhne)

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This is Diarmuid Ua Duibhne. The real one.

Please disregard anything you may have been told by the last person on this network claiming to be me. I'm sorry for the confusion.

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[Wherever Saber's living now, early that evening there would be a knock on her door by a very unhappy-looking Diarmuid.]

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I have little idea of where to begin... but I m-must somehow prove whether or not this... this "curse" yet persists.

(What the hell are you thinking, Miles?)

...Even I don't know how to do that. It has never been broken once in my entire lifetime, not until I came to this city. [Absentmindedly, Diarmuid raised a hand to the right side of his face.]

And if it does, what then? I've no idea how to truly dispel it.

I... I cannot honestly claim to know. But... everything begins with the truth.

I suppose you're right. The fact that I'm able to hold a stable conversation with any other woman tells me it's broken on my end, at least.

But if that's so, I truly don't understand why it keeps a hold on Sola.

If it is indeed still there, that would point to a process that isn't dependent on the continued existence of its original source. A snake's venom cannot be cured by killing the snake, after all.

Sound logic, but...forgive me, it's hard to explain.

I once had a lance that inflicted a curse upon those it wounded. But once the lance was broken, the effects of the curse vanished without a trace. Logically, this should be the same; eliminate the source and the derivations fall apart.

But perhaps the mechanics of Gae Buidhe's curse simply work differently. The comparison to a serpent would explain Sola's affliction in the simplest terms.

If the curse does yet affect her, this "venom" should still be present in some way. If we only had a means of detection...

Unfortunately, the most accomplished magus I know of here is Sola herself.

Which, if the popular account of the situation holds any merit, means little here and now. Furthermore, if forensic methods pertaining to... such things exist, I know nothing of them.

I'm no magus myself, so truthfully I haven't the faintest idea.

If Forneus were only capable of seeing more than the strengths and weaknesses of Shadows... Though useful, such an ability is remarkably limited. Furthermore, even an ability appropriate to our needs would be insufficient as evidence in and of itself; it would be necessary to develop something reproducible by anyone.

Forneus...that must be the name of your Persona, then? I wasn't aware they had such abilities.

Unfortunately--and forgive me if this should sound dismissive--I think perhaps your approach to gathering evidence may not apply quite as well in circumstances such as this.

Indeed it is, and apparently they do.

[Edgeworth visibly bristles at Diarmuid's assessment of the matter.]

We can't very well rely on purely circumstantial evidence, particularly when trying to deduce something as elusive as the difference between mental illness, free will, and a curse. Furthermore, a method of detection that only I can perceive the results of, taken alone, would fall into the realm of spectral evidence, no better than a malicious accusation. That being said, if I were so capable, it would if nothing else allow a proper method to be devised with my supervision.

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