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Michel feels dead bodies grabbing at his ankles, dragging him down. He's covered in blood and human remains. He's deeply disgusted that a 12-year-old girl had to witness so much death. Morgana mourns the fact that she had ever experienced happiness, or human emotions.

Morgana travels for a while on her own, and comes upon a witch's cabin. She dumps the witch's body in the nearby lake, as she had died of natural causes. She lives there until she is 16, making remedies for the locals in exchange for food, until she meets a flaxen-haired boy who is not repulsed by her and spends time, talking and walking around the lake with her. He is very close to his sister. [sounds like Mell??] The sister is bedridden and needs something - so Morgana gives her blood. Multiple times.

She heals a bit at first, probably placebo, and then nothing really improves after that. The visits become more infrequent, and the consuming of blood was taboo in that time.

A man comes to the door and asks about the witch with the miracle blood. The man's voice sounds like the carriage killer from earlier. Morgana demands that he leave, her blood is not for murderers but for the sick and needy.

The flaxen-haired boy returns with an apology and wants to reconnect. Morgana opens the door without a second thought, and the man is standing behind the boy, holding a sword. He hacks off her arm and gives it to the boy, calling it his 'share', and the boy runs off. The murderer talks about saving a church with her body, selling it to the lord and then giving the money to an altruistic church run by a nun known as the Saintess. The murderer calls Morgana a witch.

Morgana is pulled up the tower and her blood let to mix into red wine and be sold off as a miracle cure-all elixir. No one would buy it if they knew it was a witch's blood. The observation tower is locked with a lock with 3 keys - the lord, the swordsman, and the young man each have a key. As spring celebrations begin, as the lord and Saintess are both complimented in her stead, she can hear it all happening below through the window.

The church bell tolls 12 times, and on the twelfth, Morgana dies. The men arrive to drain her a little more, and are annoyed and frustrated at her death. They start to blame each other. Morgana rises from her body, not tied down by it anymore, and makes a wish - or as some would call it, a curse.

The young man's sister immediately begins to vomit blood and dies. He shouts the truth as loud as he can - 'you're all drinking witch's blood', stabs himself in the throat with a fork, and dies. Everyone drinking begins to vomit blood and suffer. They swirl around the Saintess, but the murderer slices anyone who draws near. He is quickly overwhelmed by the mob, who then return their attention to the Saintess. Once she is destroyed, they turn their attention to the lord. He's quickly run through.
A plague spreads over the town, and people bemoan being cursed by the witch. The whole city is dead within the week. But Morgana is not satisfied.

She wishes for the reconstruction of the 3 men:

To the flaxen-haired young man who cherished his sister - let him be destroyed by love gone too far.

To the beast-like man who desired to be more human - let him feel the pain of never being able to draw close to that goal.

To the lord who was greedy above all else - leave him abandoned by all but his money and power. No friendship, no love, no loyalty. Nothing.

Michel feels nothing but unending pain. Morgana encourages him to give up. He stalwartly refuses, pushing forth despite his profound injuries. He reaches the top and addresses Morgana. He tells her that he understands why she would hate them, but to go on hating them does no good. He apologizes for never paying attention to Morgana, for never asking how she felt. Morgana tells him to open the door.

It opens to Michel's old bedroom...? Giselle is there and she says she's not an illusion. Morgana chides you for returning so many times and not remembering Giselle. For toying with the different men. For not knowing who you were. You are the White-Haired Girl.

Giselle had read the letter. You are not a man at all. You feel rejected. When you learned your father, Antonin, had passed, you wrote one letter to your brother, and another to your mother. To your mother, you ask her to consider that you were never cursed. That you were always her son, Michel, not Michelle. Your body is no longer female. You wish to live together with Giselle, whom you love. Shortly after sending that letter, you were killed.

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Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself...: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?
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