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[silvereyedlion]

[The view of Anatole is from a rather high vantage point, and shows some of the more damaged areas of the city - all the crumbled, trampled and cut down buildings of the slums, the bodies littered here and there. The occasional patch of fighting still going on

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[Video]

[yetsleeping]

Rigaldo... you were right.

[She lifts her hands, which are all sticky and reddish.]

Strawberries don't taste very good.

[But she licks her fingers anyway.]

[Video]

[silvereyedlion]

I did try to tell you.

...Mind your appetite.

[Leave some for the rest of us.]

[Video]

[yetsleeping]

I haven't been eating at all.

[A little pause. She cocks her head to the side a bit.]

...oh, no. Once. Riful.

She wasn't very tasty.

[She stretches a little, and rolls onto her back. She appears to be in a patch of grass inside the ruins. ...there's a rod twitching on the ground beside her.]

I miss the city. It was more beautiful before. But it likes to heal itself, brick by brick, when you aren't looking. I think.

[Video] forever and ever

[silvereyedlion]

[Hopefully this blink he gives her will encompass everything that is wrong with what she just said. He's practiced it a lot.]

Riful?

YES.

[yetsleeping]

Yes. I owed her another death... for what she did to me.

[silvereyedlion]

I see.

...You probably could have accomplished that without consuming her, you know.

[yetsleeping]

Yes. But I was so hungry.

...do you know what she did to me, Rigaldo? I can tell you, because you're you. Because I've known you for so long.

She took someone I loved, and she murdered him to hurt me. And she nearly killed my sister, and my friend. And she terrorized me, and threatened me, and made me hide.

And she killed everything there was about my life that I loved.

And I couldn't do anything. I was so afraid, and so helpless, for so long.