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[cursdbludysmile]

[The feed opens to show Fai sitting in the window of his apartment, the fading sunset behind him the only illumination. The image is canted oddly due to the way his hand with the NV hangs from his bent knee and he's resting his head back against the windowframe, his single eye closed, utterly silent as if he's unaware that the NV is recording him.

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[quackery]

You were the- [A pause.] Are you gonna be okay?

Um, people come back from the dead a lot here.

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[cursdbludysmile]

Thank you for your concern, child, but I'll be alright.

[He's suffered worse than this after all, and for much longer than a disjointed moment.

If anything, he's more interested in what she said after...]

They do? Is it because of this Core?

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[quackery]

That's what most people think... I don't really know, though. It's really weird!

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[cursdbludysmile]

Sounds like.

[A beat, then a slight smile.]

Have you been here long, child? Seems like this would be a harder place to get used to for one so young.

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[Oh god, freaking out right now.]

Fai, are you all right?

[She knows his name from the autopsy report, but she's still in the hospital.]

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[cursdbludysmile]

I'll be fine, but thank you for your concern Miss...?

[A pause as he swallows around the burning dryness in his throat, a lingering pain from his death.]

Forgive my rudeness, but I'm afraid I can't recall your voice.

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Re-l. I was in the restaurant when the incident happened. I was...sitting a few tables away, though you might not remember.

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[cursdbludysmile]

Ah, Miss Re-I, I'm afraid there were several ladies seated near me. I don't think I recognize your voice from among them.

[A lie, it does sound vaguely familiar, but not enough to pinpoint to a face.]

Are you alright? That must have been rather traumatizing to see...

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[cursdbludysmile]

I am, and No, I didn't.

[He laughs then, soft and rough, before he adds flatly.]

Though I rather doubt it was merely a person.

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[cursdbludysmile]

If I had, I wouldn't be asking about my killer, Mister...?

[What a strange turn of phrase, my killer. It rolls awkwardly across his tongue, leaves a strangely bitter taste.

And no, he'll gladly ignore that first question, thanks.]

I was kinda... blindsided.

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[deceptive_lulz]

Beheaded? Eeheehee? [Sarina narrows her eyes oddly.] ...and you recovered from it already?

[pause.] What does it feel like to be decapitated anyway?

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[cursdbludysmile]

[Oh hey, you get an unamused look and an arched brow. Because really...]

I don't believe one simply 'recovers' from losing their head. I was dead and now I'm, apparently, not. As for how it felt...

[A shrug then and a slight cough, his fingertips pressing slightly into the hollow of his throat before he shakes his head.]

Like nothing. Nothing at all, really.

[A lie. he'd most definitely felt something. A presence of sorts for an instance before that nothing he's mentioned.]

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[deceptive_lulz]

[Right. Even with her fucked up emotions, she felt a little bad for wording it wrong. Sarina shook her head, before speaking.]

I meant you're somehow alive from it -- eeheehee -- I'm certain you'd want revenge for an incident like that. [shrug.] I know I would.

[She doesn't quite buy the fact that it felt like "nothing", but she wasn't going to press it.]

In either case, even if it didn't feel like anything, it's still concerning that someone who did something like that is still running around.

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[cursdbludysmile]

Yeah...I'm more concerned with the being alive again part than the dying part to be perfectly frank.

[He nods there, though he's careful to keep his expression neutral because he's not too sure of this one. Because considering the topic of conversation, giggling is not what he'd consider a 'normal' response by any means.]

Though I'd have to agree that having someone with the ability to attack like that running free... guess I'll have to be more careful with my guard, hm?

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[cursdbludysmile]

Excited?

[A beat.]

Not exactly. Wondering how I was brought back from the dead without unraveling the Universal laws of Reason and Logic, yes. How someone managed to do such a thing, to me, I'm quite curious. But excited...

[Curious too, how this one didn't follow polite procedure and ask how he was doing first.]

Not today. Should I be?