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[shiningdown]

[When the device clicks on there is some silence muddled by the background noise of the forest at night, albeit a presently uneventful corner of it. Well, sort of. Then there is a breath, not quite a sigh or anything so quickly named, but a sound that can amount to a combination of distaste and upset.]There ought to be a law of some kind against

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[unseenprince]

Don't spare me any details.

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[shiningdown]

[shiningdown]

Why?

[unseenprince]

How do you know it was killed for other purposes.

[shiningdown]

The only part missing was the horn.

And its life, but that much I've already been over.

For any other purpose for the matter of food, the body itself would have been taken, surely.

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[unseenprince]

[unseenprince]

Humans.

Did it die a quick death?

[shiningdown]

It looks that way.

[pause]

And I don't know for certain, but the throat suggests that it did.

[unseenprince]

Disgusting but unsurprising.

[shiningdown]

What is unsurprising about it?

[unseenprince]

Humans have always prized beasts for what parts can fulfill their greed.

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[shiningdown]

[This is what she thought herself, yet even thinks. But somehow it is more hurtful, more driven home to hear it outright from someone else in such terms. Claire said it too, to a degree, but that seems to pale next to this statement for the centuries.]

[shiningdown]

....terrible.

[unseenprince]

It's the only conclusion to draw from this. Not long before the woods mourned the loss of a wolf by silver bullet.

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[shiningdown]

[as stiffly as could ever be fathomed. maybe more so.]

I see.