CANTO XI | VOICE

[unastregadoro]

This city is simply full of vermin, wouldn't you say?

[A cackle, which echoes.  It appears Beatrice is somewhere underground, or at the very least abandoned.  Following her laughter, there are the sounds of what are horrified---but inhuman-sounding---screams and shrieks, followed by the sounds of tearing and stabbing----even sizzling.]

After all, the

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[holeheart]

Oooh, that's a fun noise, witch.

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[unastregadoro]

Isn't it, though, my dear beast?

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[holeheart]

What's makin' it?

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[unastregadoro]

Oh, just some of the Major's little pets.

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[holeheart]

Oooh, sounds fun. They got souls or did he take those too?

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[unastregadoro]

No.

[A beat as she gets to impaling a few more of the little bastards----]

---These are vampires. They're the walking dead---shells of who they once were, acting only on the barest of instincts.

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[holeheart]

Dammit. I'm half starved here. [he sounds the poutiest]

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[unastregadoro]

[she chuckles. god, what a big baby.]

My dear, I'm sure there are other sources of sustenance up and about---these disgusting, lowly minions appear far from appetizing, even to someone like yourself.

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[holeheart]

There are, but for whatever reason, people don't like it when I kill other people and eat them.

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[unastregadoro]

[pause.]

Do you consider yourself a "hero" or "villain," beast?

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[holeheart]

[a pause on his end, too.]

... Neither. Things aren't that straightforward.

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[unastregadoro]

I see.

An acceptable answer. The world isn't as black and white as people like to fancy it.

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[holeheart]

It ain't that black and white at all. I do what I want, and sometimes other people like it, and sometimes they don't.

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[unastregadoro]

Then I say eat, if you are hungry. Do they not do they same, those silly humans? Eat innocent animals for sustenance?

[an ominous laugh.]

How is eating souls any different?

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[holeheart]

But they might put me in jail.

And I don't wanna be caged.