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[silvereyedlion]

[The view of Anatole is from a rather high vantage point, and shows some of the more damaged areas of the city - all the crumbled, trampled and cut down buildings of the slums, the bodies littered here and there. The occasional patch of fighting still going on

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[yetsleeping]

Rigaldo... you were right.

[She lifts her hands, which are all sticky and reddish.]

Strawberries don't taste very good.

[But she licks her fingers anyway.]

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[silvereyedlion]

I did try to tell you.

...Mind your appetite.

[Leave some for the rest of us.]

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[yetsleeping]

I haven't been eating at all.

[A little pause. She cocks her head to the side a bit.]

...oh, no. Once. Riful.

She wasn't very tasty.

[She stretches a little, and rolls onto her back. She appears to be in a patch of grass inside the ruins. ...there's a rod twitching on the ground beside her.]

I miss the city. It was more beautiful before. But it likes to heal itself, brick by brick, when you aren't looking. I think.

[Video] forever and ever

[silvereyedlion]

[Hopefully this blink he gives her will encompass everything that is wrong with what she just said. He's practiced it a lot.]

Riful?

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[swordofthenorth]

Personally...I agree, Rigaldo.

[ He is far too pleased with the way things played out. Of course, with everything in his favor, why shouldn't he be? ]

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[silvereyedlion]

I thought you might. Things do seem to work out well for us here, don't they?

[And not so much for everyone else, but who cares about them.]

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[swordofthenorth]

For now they seem to.