jealousy injures us with the dagger of self-doubt

[bridgetroll]

[Death has shaken her will more than she thought, but Parsee never was one to run from pain she deserved. She picks up the phone and calls the whole town.]

A week or so ago, some of you might have suddenly found yourselves feeling very, very....jealous. Did these feelings make you hurt yourself? Or someone you care about? I don't know- in fact, I

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[hellooo_witch]

Why, dear, why would you want such a thing? Surely there's a better way to solve this...

[bridgetroll]

I guess I could kill myself and save everyone the trouble, but hell- I don't even have the decency to do that.

[hellooo_witch]

Come now. Whatever you've done or have had done to you, I'm sure it's nothing that can't be worked out by talking reasonably like adults. Why don't you tell me what happened?

[bridgetroll]

Oh, now you assume I'm mature? How kind of you. I'm jealous.

[a quiet little snarl of laughter]

And, in fact, jealousy itself is exactly what happened! I can manipulate it, and one day I decided to screw around with anyone unlucky enough to be near me.

[hellooo_witch]

And why would you wish to do that? [though medusa thinks she already knows.]

[bridgetroll]

Because I wanted to spread the bad feeling. Because I wanted everyone else to suffer.

[and in part, yes, that's true- but not the entire reason.]

Because I got sick of lies and leaving. Because I decided it was better for everyone to realize that it was better to hate me, like they should.

[hellooo_witch]

I don't think the problem lies with everyone else. I think the problem lies within your own heart. Rather than spreading that pain to everyone else, why not try to remove it from yourself?

I may be a stranger, but I do not wish to see a girl in need suffer without cause. My name is Medusa. Please, let me help you.

[bridgetroll]

I don't have a heart. Not in the stupid, goopy metaphorical sense, anyway. And I can't get rid of it. It's part of me.

Without cause? Lady, you're too innocent for your own good. I deserve every bit of pain I get.

[hellooo_witch]

[innocent? it's all medusa can do not to laugh.]

No one deserves such pain. All you need is someone to talk to... someone to show you what you need to do to be happy.

[bridgetroll]

I can't be happy.

[it's not screamed, not growled- just uttered in the tone of one who believes they speak the gospel truth. Resigned.... and yet Parsee is not.]

[hellooo_witch]

I once thought the same way.

And I was wrong.

[bridgetroll]

Good for you. I'm jealous of your epiphany.

[hellooo_witch]

You needn't be jealous of something that can so easily be yours.

[bridgetroll]

If you want to screw with me, lady, then go ahead. But I know better- I already spent hundreds of years trying to get what you have.

[hellooo_witch]

Alone? Then no wonder.

The choice is yours. You can suffer needlessly for the rest of your life, or you can finally achieve the happiness you've longed for all these years...

Should you choose the latter, I am always available to talk to.

[bridgetroll]

I don't even know your name.