They were all sat in the room, on chairs that Crimson had made appear, to suit everybody needs. Even Sharon and Mint had a seat that meet their specails needs. Sharon seat was a very large basket filled with pillow that the snake woman found very comfortable, as she layed coiled within and resting her top on a large cushion, so that she could eassily look at teh others. Mint seat, seemed to hang from the ceiling, coming to a stop near Caitlin's head. Mint seat itself seemed to be like an easy boy, but made out of a strange rubber and it was doing something tyo mint that caused the little sex fairy to moan softly with pleasure. Caitlin own chair was a large soft leather easy chair that seemed to have a hidden soothing motion to it. It softness and warm surprised her and she copuld help but relax into it. She suspect that Crimson had tailored each chair to the person in it's likes. Lucy, who was sat near here, and as far away from sharon as Crimson had allowed, had a Latex chair in the shape of pursed lips.
Crimson himself, sat crossed legged, in the middle of large round bed and arrange the chairs which the sat in a half semicircle around his bed. He had even asked them each, what they would like to drink and had supplied the ask for drink out of thin air. Caitlin couldn't help but get the expression that, Crimson was going out of his way to but them at ease, before he started explain things, meaning that some of it was gonna be bad.
There had been a slight period, encoraged by crimson, where everyone had introduced themselfs and explain briefly how they had got involved. When she had told roughly about following Meredith, then how a change girl had come after them, that if it hadn't been for Crimson help, that was as far as she got. Caitlin hadn't realised, at that point, but she had started to shake and go into delayed shock. She didn't even notice Sharon slowly slither over to her and then gentle embrace her motheringly. Sharon had held her, letting her sob out all her fear and anger, as the snake woman whispered kind gentle soothing words.
Now, as Catlin sat in her seat, her attention was brought to the human lump in the snake woman tail. Lucy kept glancing at it, shuddering each time and a tiny animal like sob would come out of her mouth. Caitlin remembered that lucy had said that Sharon had swallowed her Father. The shape in Sharon was female, and Caitlin had a gut feeling why Lucy sob at this, the snake woman had made Lucy an orphan in one night. How can any one seemingly as kind and loving as Sharon do something sop cruel.
It was Crimson voice that snapped them all back to the present.
"I know that all of you have questions and would like some answers!" Crimson said softly to them all "I gonna tell you, as much as im allowed, every one here more then has the right to know at least some of the truth, even if they rather not hear it!"
"What do you mean, sssome of us might not like it?" Sharon asked "I take it that some of the truth is bad?"
"I mean, that some of the answer i will be giving, will not be the one you want to hear!" Crimson said kindly "It is the way of things, it will be the truth and you will need to know it!"
The room remained silent for a few minutes, the group sensing that they would have to choose their question carefully. At last, one of them decide to end the silence.
"Rick, he changed me, didn't he, it was like that woman siad on the phone?" Robin asked, the rage she felt returning "And Jim help him, didn't he?"
"Yes, Rick and Jim changed you, shaping you to fit better into Rick idea of a perfect you!" Crimson said calmly and gently "But he did it out of love, misguided and maybe selfish, but still out of love!"
"Love?" Gasped Robin, barely containing her rage.
"Yes, but before you lay your anger out, and decide to let them know how you feel, let me tell you something!" Crimson said softly to robin and smiling kindly "They were both foolish at the time, not mature enough to handle the power at their hands, Rick changed you out of a need for you to love him, Jim helped out of his friendship for Rick, But that was then!"
"And?" Robin asked, barelty keeping her control! "Now, both Rick and Jim have matured, Jim a little more so, they know what they did to you was wrong, part of their them wishes they never done it and both deeply regret it!" Crimson said softly "Rick should have told you, he been wanting to confess to you for a long time, but fear of how you react and that you might never forgive him, kept him form doing what was right!"
"So your saying, i should forgive him?" Robin hissed, barely keeping herself in check
"No, Im saying that it up to you to decide, if you want to forgive?" Crimson said kindly "But you shoukld at least let him try to explain himself, if not for him, yourself, so you can decide?"
Robin slowly nodded and asked "How did that bitch on the phone know all this?"
"That was Serisun, the Sin of Pride, Robin" Crimson said "She knows the same way i know, but you have to remember, Pride is working agaist us here!"
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