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[VOICE]

Apr 12, 2011 23:18

So...this is Tartarus.

I knew I would end up here someday.

[Cassandra sighs heavily]

Or, perhaps it's just the town and these terrors will go away, the same as always, when we leave. There no need for panic.

cmt: heine rammsteiner, cassandra of troy

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[Voice] canisorption April 14 2011, 03:34:41 UTC

[The voice is a woman. Ordinarily that would keep him from even saying anything, but...there's distance when the talking's through machines.

But there's the self-convincing in your voice, the lambent terror.

It takes him a while to comment, and put the words out there.]

And if they don't?

[It's not even that he means to be so curt, or so insensitive. He's not good with people. In his way, he's suggesting a backup plan. Possibly one with bell, book, and bullet. But it's pretty hard to know that when being confronted like that by a stranger. Especially one with this sort of abruptness.]

[Voice] cassie_of_troy April 14 2011, 03:36:04 UTC

Then I suppose we learn to live with them.

[Voice] canisorption April 14 2011, 03:41:54 UTC

...

[He considers that, in the silence. It's not a bad point...

But not quite his style.]

Or...you bare your teeth.

[The fact other people can see these things too means they're probably not a hallucination, if nothing else. That's something to think about, for him.]

[VOICE] cassie_of_troy April 14 2011, 03:44:29 UTC

...I guess? But they're ghosts. I don't think they're going to scare easily. What are you going to do? Kill them?

[VOICE] canisorption April 14 2011, 03:52:00 UTC

[Another long pause. He's not sure if they're ghosts or not until he tries. But explaining that you have a thing on your neck which means you yourself can't die, and occasionally suffer delusions that might or might not be direct transmissions from someone else isn't something even the most verbose of characters could get a handle on too easily.]

...Just because it haunts you doesn't make it a ghost.

And just because it's a ghost doesn't mean it can't be put to rest permanantly.

[There's the crunch of leaves in the background. Whoever the creepy monotone is on the other end seems to be walking through the city, and his end sounds quite...silent.]

[VOICE] cassie_of_troy April 14 2011, 03:53:43 UTC

You sound like a man looking for a fight.

[VOICE] canisorption April 14 2011, 03:57:03 UTC

No.

[There's a grim, funny humor in it, too, if you listen carefully. Of course, you'd have to be him to get the joke.]

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