I've read the notes I've left, and I remember - being here, if not the details of the place and those I'd met. It completely dismisses the original theory I had about the nature of Adstringendum, but I suppose I'll just have to come up with another
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You're welcome.
[And her look is slightly cautious. She's kinda expecting him to have something to ask her.]
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The graves are empty. The tombstones only seem to trigger visions or memories.
[Read: No need for you to go outside to try and retrieve a corpse.]
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I know. I've checked.
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She pauses. Reluctant to ask her next question. But somehow she just has to.]
Did you find his tombstone?
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[Another pause. Johannes is suddenly absorbed in his notes.]
Three of them. Odd, isn't it?
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He died once when he became a vampire. He died for the second time here after you left. And you told me he commits suicide a while later back there in your world.
That makes three.
[And she sounds so detached about it. But some emotions flicker across her face that betray how hurt she truly is.]
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No, no, I'm aware of all of that. [Spoken in the tone of: I'm not an idiot.] But that the place saw fit to give him three. Simply over the top.
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And since when do the Animus care about being over the top anyway?
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...Was there something written on them, your name aside?
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[It wasn't his tombstone he was interested in. Nor Horsts' several, really.]
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[Raven won't ask for whose tombstone he was looking for. She gets the feeling she already knows the answer to that. And she's not supposed to mention her anyway.]
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They could have at least given us bodies to work with.
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[A soft snort.] That would have been way too close to nice for them.
Also there's that well known biblic quote: 'We're all dust and to dust we shall return'. They do seem fond of clichés. That or they're just big fans of Queen.
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It would be doing me a service, however.
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