The lights have gone...

[dread_whispers]

Isn't it lovely?  The sun set forever, and a melancholy cloud fell on our heads.  The tick-tock heartbeat is slow and sad... it hears the whispers of things to come.

I've a home now... Gentleman Walter ought to collect his payment.  I wonder... is he still singing with the other piece's blood?

What thoughts my other half has!  Full of blood...

Comments

[banditfox]

A pet?

[dread_whispers]

Mm hm! Not so pretty and well-behaved as you. This one is naughty... I've had to punish him.

[banditfox]

Punish how?

[dread_whispers]

Spankings and bitings... the poor thing is unhappy, but he must be trained.

I told him that I will be good if he is.

[banditfox]

Perhaps we should establish what you mean by "pet".

[dread_whispers]

A little living doll...

I get lonely...

Are you angry with me?

[banditfox]

A human?

I cannot say that I approve, but there is nothing I can do against you if you do not release him of your own volition, not without permission from my master.

[dread_whispers]

Mm... human, yes. He was lonely, too... lost from his home.

Don't be angry...

[banditfox]

Why shouldn't I be?

[dread_whispers]

I try...

[banditfox]

I've lived as a human. I have respect for them. Therefore, I do not enjoy seeing them treated as toys to be broken and thrown away. Let him go. I will ask my master for permission to persuade you more strongly if I must.

[dread_whispers]

He doesn't have a home... who will care for him?

[banditfox]

Humans are remarkably self-sufficient in spite of their frailties. How badly have you damaged him?

[dread_whispers]

But frail regardless... it's rude to break so easily...

He won't come along...

[banditfox]

If you have pushed him past the point where he can care for himself, I am certain that someone will take him in.

[dread_whispers]

Mm... he doesn't like me. Poor stray... he's sleeping by the sweets...

[ooc: Dru left her pet by candy mountain. He's alive, but not very.]