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[video l private] halcyonthird November 21 2011, 02:00:21 UTC
[She believes she understand his masquerade costume a little better now.]

Is that a memory?

[...]

It may come as a shock to you, but the broadcast was public.

[Better hear it now than later, right?]

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[video l private] singersalvages November 21 2011, 03:24:28 UTC
[Bobby's breath catches and he comes fully awake: remembers his dream and realizes what she's saying.]

...Damn.

Sorta. In a crazy, messed-up kinda way.

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[video l private] halcyonthird November 22 2011, 01:13:20 UTC
I am sorry. These monthly fluctuations of the mist bring with them unkind ...effects.

There is no way to stop them - that we know of. The invasions, while relatively harmless compared to some of the dangers here...

...they are not without their own lingering scars.

[...]

I have a similar memory, Bobby Singer. You were brave and did what was necessary. I was not.

I do not know if that is a comfort, but there it it, all the same.

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[video l private] singersalvages November 22 2011, 03:57:24 UTC
[That we know of. Bobby intends to work on that. Surely somewhere, in the history or myths or bedtime stories of this place, there's a way. But as for the rest of what she says:]

How similar are we talkin' here?

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[video l private] halcyonthird November 23 2011, 02:22:09 UTC
[Why pull any punches?]

The man on the floor. I could say that the same fate befell my family, long ago. I couldn't have stopped it, I was just a small thing. A child.

Still, I could have stayed behind.

[Instead, I am this. Perhaps so that less little girls find themselves upon the same path.]

It is never an easy thing to have to kill those that we are close to. But it might be easier than watching some beast wear their skin.

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[video l private] singersalvages November 23 2011, 04:09:53 UTC
Things like that ain't something a child should have to go through.

[He sounds angry on her behalf. But he knows a couple of boys who've been there, robbed of their childhood because they saw and experienced things that children never should.]

I'd hope that someone cared about me enough to pull the trigger.

[He's quiet for a moment, trying to piece together things from what she told him before.]

So what happened after your folks? Where did you go instead of staying behind?

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[video l private] halcyonthird November 26 2011, 00:24:10 UTC
[I'd hope that someone cared about me enough to pull the trigger. That sounds not so much different from the sentiment of taking one's head before the inevitable.]

Mm.

[She stops a moment, and smiles just a little as she verbalizes prior thoughts.]

You might say that I became what I am so that less might go through it. Even if it wasn't wholly by choice, there was nowhere left for me to go.

It is a common tale among warriors.

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[video l private] singersalvages November 26 2011, 02:15:38 UTC
You were forced into it?

[Well even that's not so different. What other choice do a lot of hunters have after seeing their loved ones killed or eaten or possessed by things that shouldn't exist? Most times it's a choice between being crushed under the fear and sorrow, or getting revenge the only way you know how - by hunting down the sons-of-bitches.]

Yeah, sounds like.

Those things that you hunt. Any of 'em here?

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[video l private] halcyonthird December 4 2011, 03:11:56 UTC
I was sold, most likely.

[Maybe she was just given away, she never had the time (or the forethought) to have asked. But she shrugs a little, because it's long past and does no good to dwell.]

They show themselves in the ruins frequently enough. Why do you ask?

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[video l private] singersalvages December 5 2011, 05:15:55 UTC
I'm something of a hunter myself.

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[video l private] halcyonthird December 6 2011, 00:39:35 UTC
Well, then. It appears we have even more common ground.

[ Hadn't she said she was going to stop associating with humans? Between you and that kid, she's sure sticking to her guns on that. Yep. :a ]

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[video l private] singersalvages December 6 2011, 02:37:43 UTC
Guess we're just unlucky that way.

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[video l private] halcyonthird December 6 2011, 02:53:47 UTC
If we ventured into the ruins it would be the yoma who would be unlucky.

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[video l private] singersalvages December 6 2011, 03:01:00 UTC
Since you put it that way, I've suddenly got a real itch for the ruins.

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[video l private] halcyonthird December 9 2011, 01:38:41 UTC
An itch?

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[video l private] singersalvages December 9 2011, 20:23:37 UTC
If some of those bastards really are out there, we gotta get them before they get someone else.

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