THIRTY-TWO | VIDEO

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[ Through a window, (how he'd managed to knock the locusts aside, don't ask) the device records a dark, almost black sky. His voice comes from beyond the image. ]

It's nine in the morning, by the by. And darkness is usually the ninth day. I had thought all this talk of slaughtering the conveniently placed lambs to be a touch rushed, but it does

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[adamantined]

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[adamantined]

Thank you.

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[anti_buttons]

There's no need to

I am surprised that

You are "playing", so to speak?

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[adamantined]

I wouldn't say "playing." I don't know what you'd call it, really. But I'm not going to sit around on the off-chance that the people I care about might not die at the end of the day.

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[anti_buttons]

Thus the emphasis. There is no appropriate word for it. Your reasoning is relieving surprisingly sound.

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[adamantined]

Surprisingly?

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[anti_buttons]

You strike me as more the type to refuse to slay the lamb, or in any way condone it.

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[adamantined]

I don't condone it. And I'm not going to do it if I don't have to. But if it comes down to the wire, then you have to do what you have to do to protect people, and people are more important than lambs, no matter how bad you feel afterward. It's nothing compared to a -

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[anti_buttons]

Unfortunately, we have no way of knowing if things will play out as they should.

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[adamantined]

I think everyone should expect the deities to trick us or screw us over somehow. It's just hard to figure out if they'll do it by turning it into a joke or by actually going through with the cliche.

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[anti_buttons]

Perhaps only those who kill the lambs and spread the blood will die. Perhaps the lambs aren't lambs at all; perhaps we're missing a few hundred citizens. We haven't exactly been walking the streets, with the rest of it.

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[adamantined]

Speak for yourself.

Too many what if's for me, not enough tangible things to fight.

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[adamantined]

Do you have any extra?

I'm not saying that I won't do it myself if I have to, but there's no point in going all psychotic if there's... something left over.

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[anti_buttons]

[Fff, has been out- but spoke generally.]

Would you like to make a wager? It could all be an April Fools' joke.

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[anti_buttons]

I wonder if sharing the blood would dilute or negate its effects. Or, if one can even have others stay in their apartments, and have it count.

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[adamantined]

I'm not making a bet on whether or not people are going to live or die.