Main Dorm Porch, Monday Evening

[faithfulchosen]

Faith sat on the porch steps, a beer between her knees, cigarette between her lips. She exhaled a deep breath.

She was bored.

[open, as porches are]

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[cirrasurvivor]

Callisto wandered by and stopped when she saw faith. She tilted her head and watched for a moment.

[faithfulchosen]

"Sup, Cal?" Faith took a sip of her beer and reached back towards the cooler. "Want a beer?"

[cirrasurvivor]

Callisto smirked and approached. "Perhaps I shall have one," she said.

[faithfulchosen]

Faith opened the beer with the opener attached to the cooler, and handed the bottle to Callisto. "How's it going?"

[cirrasurvivor]

"I have yet to kill those who employ me," Callisto said. "That is about all."

[faithfulchosen]

Faith nodded. "Good for you. Homicide of employers isn't a good way to stay employed." She took another sip of beer. "Not a good way to stay out of jail, either." She grinned.

[cirrasurvivor]

Callisto chuckled. "They would not catch me."

[faithfulchosen]

Faith shrugged. "I dunno, Cal. I've been caught, and I was cocky like that, too."

[cirrasurvivor]

"Did you try to kill your captors?" Callisto asked.

[faithfulchosen]

Faith nodded. "Damn right. First time I did get away, but eventually, they got me. Spent damn near three years in the state pen."

[cirrasurvivor]

"Was escape not possible?" Callisto asked.

[faithfulchosen]

Faith shook her head. "Not even for a slayer. Trust me, I tried in the beginning. After awhile, I just kind of accepted it. After all, I did do something that I needed to be punished for. I killed an innocent man."

Faith lit another cigarette, and took a swig of her beer. Somehow she didn't think this was going to go well.

"It was an accident, but still."

[cirrasurvivor]

Callisto chuckled. "Is that all?"

[faithfulchosen]

Faith looked at Callisto. What was she playing at? "Whatcha mean, Cal?" She took a drag of her cigarette, and finished her beer, dropping the empty in the cooler and extracting a fresh one.

[cirrasurvivor]

"One life is barely crime," Callisto said.

[faithfulchosen]

"Well it is by the standards of this day and age, Cal."

Faith cracked open her beer, took a swallow, and said, "and to me, too. You're one life. Your mom is one life. If it was you, or her? It deserves punishment."