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Card #c355IR // #c355Synthesis

This is real life, and your father is lost to us now—alive or dead, I don’t know—and if I don’t get home, you will be lost to me, too.

— In our words · Source: Tilt (Emma Pattee)

[Use when]

Use when disaster stakes are not your death but losing the dependent.

[Why it matters]

Disaster stakes invert: the dependent's survival, not your own, is the load-bearing fear.

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