Double EP!

[onlyneed1shot]

There are certain principles involved with Mardi Gras-type events, and Camille Montes is well aware of them. She also has no fundamental problem with them (not to mention a sneaking suspicion that her father’s family would disown her for being so unBolivian if she did have problems with partying). No, what she has problem with is that whoever it is

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[mr_v_and_mr_c]

(Let me see . . . which one of them would cope better?)

[mr_v_and_mr_c]

"Yes."

[onlyneed1shot]

"Then you would know that flailing scares them."

[mr_v_and_mr_c]

"But if you don't let the person get out, they tire before long. And then the real fun begins."

[onlyneed1shot]

"And by that stage, they've found a tree or ducked under the water and swum away from you. And them. Piranhas are scavengers. Good for getting rid of bodies, bad for killing them in the first place."

[mr_v_and_mr_c]

"Oh, that's not where we start. That's just one of the things we do once they're already bleeding.

"Blood in the water will draw them before the person dies."

[onlyneed1shot]

"Then why were you making the comment about the fun starting when they tire?"

[mr_v_and_mr_c]

"Because then they're completely helpless.

"And because that when that part of the fun really gets going."

[onlyneed1shot]

Smiling at them, Camille shakes her head.

"Which...would be the same as if they were in a frenzy over the blood. And you only mentioned the blood when I pointed out that people can swim away from them.

And now you are back to tiring again, even though...from what you've been trying to say, in your...experience, the person is already...dead.

Or have I missed something beyond logic?"

[mr_v_and_mr_c]

"Logic is overrated." Croup shakes his head. "Anyway, we've done it differently different times. Seeing what works, and all that.

"Hell, some people will have heart attacks just being dropped in."

"Useful, that. Means we get to eat instead."

[onlyneed1shot]

"Logic is an option for arguments. It's a necessity for actual events."

[mr_v_and_mr_c]

"You'd be surprised, especially when magic is involved."

"Makin' me hungry."

"When aren't you hungry?"

". . . never?"

"Right you are!"

[onlyneed1shot]

"Then the Bar is right over there, gentlemen," she says, pointing it out.

Helpfully.

[mr_v_and_mr_c]

And Vandemar is at the Bar.

"You might not want to look at what he orders," says Croup. "He's got unusual tastes."

". . . only cannibalism if your human, and it's not a crime in itself . . ." and similar comments can be faintly heard from the direction of the Bar.

[onlyneed1shot]

"So I've gathered," Camille says, getting to her feet. Glass in one hand, sandals in the other (glasses can be thrown, broken, alcohol burns; stiletto heels can double for weapons in a pinch). "Probably best if I leave you to it."

[mr_v_and_mr_c]

"Probably so, yes."