-010- [voice] usual spoiler warning

[vanityunbcoming]

[As this entry opens, there's several seconds of faint birdsong in the background. A good indicator that Vanitas is outside somewhere. Why not? It's finally overcast and not so glaringly hot, today.

Just when it might seem the journal was clicked on accidentally, a voice finally speaks up, cool and even as always.] Once upon a time, there

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another one forward dated to the 7th

[soracles]

Fate plays a big role in everything, but your own decisions and the actions of others can affect it. So both free will and fate are important.

[vanityunbcoming]

[Ahhah. Just the person he wanted to talk to.] So then what's yours?

[soracles]

My fate, you mean?

[......]

That depends on the decisions I make.

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[vanityunbcoming]

[It takes a moment before Vanitas replies to that. But when it comes, it's decisive and straight to the point.]

I want a rematch.

BACKdated to the seventh 8|

[poppetry]

... so what does that story have to do with your question? [ quietly, without any anger or malice ... yet. She knows she's one of the monsters he listed. ... not entirely sure which one, yet, so she'll be trying to figure that out as they talk. ]

[vanityunbcoming]

A lot, actually. [Not that it'll be easy to get him to explain, further.] Answer my question and I might think about telling you.

[poppetry]

[ "Fran·ken·stein, n. 1: A monstrous creation that usually ruins its originator." ]

... which monster am I, Vanitas? Tell me that, first. [ Now her voice is tense. Because it's suddenly occurred to her which monster she might be -- after getting a moment with a dictionary -- and she's none too happy about it. ]

[vanityunbcoming]

Only one of them's made in a lab. You figure it out.