† II Hail Marys †
[†]Video flicks on from breast-pocket level, focusing upon a weaving white-gloved hand and feathered quill-pen dancing Gregorian calligraphy across ancient parchment paper. The man who writes diligently while humming the melody of The Crusader's Hymn: Fairest Lord Jesus, pauses in his penned thoughts every so often to look back, keeping vigil over
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You didn't die. [To be honest, if you listen reaaaalllllllyyyyy carefully, he sounds a little bit impressed]
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O'course! Tis a wee beastie, efter aw.
Guid tae here ye again, lad.
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Hmph...
So did that... other man you were fighting... die? [He didn't know what to call it.] What was he?
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Dinnae believe me when Ah said he was a monster, did ye? A vampire tae be exact. Th' most viscoos thaur is.
Yet nay.. Ah lit him bide fer noo. Scurried back tae his hole most likely.
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[He can't really huff and say it was all impossible now, now could he? Not after what he had seen for himself. That creature was horrifying... Is that what they were trying to make in their various tests back at the station? He shuddered at the thought of it]
Why? Isn't he dangerous? Won't he hurt people? Tear the island apart or eat the civilians or...
Why!?
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A civilian got in th' way though.. I couldnae tie him doon then wi'out someone gettin' harmed. He's retreated fer noo, bit Ah'll be efter him again once he rears.
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But then again... he wasn't supposed to care. Right...]
... So you're just going to wait for him to pop back up again? Why not hunt him down yourself? Assemble an army or something?
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Ah will track him doon, I will dash him like pottery and grind him tae dust, fur his time is short.. Yet fur noo, Ah have my brother in need.
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... You're with... your brother? [His voice softens... just a little]
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Aye, Ah was fortunate tae find him sae soon efter the skirmish, he hasnae taken thes sudden deliverance sae well.
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Tch, no one should take being kidnapped well. At least you got to him before something went ant ate him, I guess.
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Nae Ah'm afraid Ah havenae. Whit is it?
As fur my kin.. Well, with our line ae work, abduction isnae out of line. Heh, yet such assailants'll be tastin' my blade afair they be tastin' him.
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It's what I was made for.
Good. It's only what they deserve.
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[And the second he fails a test, well...
Failure wasn't an option.]
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[Anderson... Had been the first and last child to survive the experimental regeneration process. First to live, for his indomitable will, the last, because he had violently denounced and abolished against his 'makers' to never put a child through the nightmarish ordeals he had gone through.
With his duty sworn to the Vatican and to God, he made it his goal to be their paragon of piety and protection. There would never be a need for another youth to lose their will.
To become a tool.
Failure... was neither his option.]
Lad.. Tell me yer name?
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