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[truepotential]

[All that work, all those collected abilities, and for nothing. Here he was, trapped, locked up in a much bigger cage, but trapped and powerless. Insignificant. Ordinary.

Everything he didn't want to be. And everything he worked for ripped from him.

Which meant he needed a different tactic to face the people of this strange place. And that meant friendliness. For at least as long as it served his purposes.

It's only been a few hours. Might as well start with the first gullible sap he could find.]

Hello, neighbor.

[That's right, Gabriel. Most charming smile. Just another new person to the neighborhood.]

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[truepotential]

A good point.

[He used to understand everything. How things worked. He understood things right away. But since waking up here, it hadn't been working. He was ordinary. Human.]

But a curse? As in magic?

[How does that work?]

[replacer]

Magic.

[He confirms it with a nod and a grim smile.]

We'd know if this was a curse. [Wait.] Or well, we wouldn't. We wouldn't remember anything. Our past, who we are, none of it.

[All he can do is shrug.]

[truepotential]

Do all curses have the same effect?

[Stripping away his past? Well. That would be better than what they had done to him. Stripping away his powers? He was seething internally and with no where or abilities to vent his anger with... well.

A curse could just be a non-special's word for an ability.]

Because if there are other possibilities-

[But that's not the important thing to focus on right now, is it, David?]

I'm sorry. I'm... Gabriel. Gabriel Gray.

[replacer]

It's nice to meet you Gabriel, even considering the circumstances.

[And really, it is.]

Well, no. But the only curse capable of doing something like this does exactly that.

[There's a noise of frustration because this really isn't his area. He's just there to find his family, so they can fix the problems.]

There's also the Sleeping Curse, but there's not enough fire for it to be that.