I am completely reliable when it comes to secrets. It's actually one of the few things people can trust me with.
This wasn't always the case. When I was younger, my need to instigate discord and feed on the resulting calamity was too strong to ignore. I wasn't aware of why I did some of the things I did, only that there was a compulsion in me to dabble in betrayal which I simply could not deny.
Learning how to control my feeding, and through that, the reasons behind some of my more irritating and alienating actions, helped me to suppress this side of my nature.
Oh, I don't keep confidences because I wish to be a good person, or because I care about your feelings......because that type of thing is beyond my capabilities.....No, I do it because knowledge is power, and secrets are doubly so. To have knowledge to myself, or that which is limited to a select few, is to have power over another.
And I don't like to share my power.
So go ahead, trust in me. Make your confession. Lay your every secret open and bleeding upon my altar.
I promise to forgive you your sins and make your penance as painless as possible.
