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Post by Magda on Mar 21, 2008 13:37:22 GMT -5
"Hyou don't understand- se only sing sat's different betveen hyou und a living man is sat hyou're- vell, hyou ave to reattach bits of hyourself every so often. Vampires, sey- ve aren't hlike sat."
Without thinking, she put her hand on his.
"Hyou see, vhen vun becomes a vampire, sey're not so much dead umans as somesing else entirely. Somesing only uman shaped. I know I voke up vit two instincts after I turned- copulating and killing. And nobody ad to tell me sat sat's vhat vampires are supposed to do, it vas just instinct. Nature. And I didn't change until I found somevun vort changing for. So unless ve can go out and find soulmates for every vampire in sis city, in se vorld, it's not so much hlike vhen hyou remind hyour zombie friends sat zombies don't naturally go about eatink brains as- as training a hyena not to eat a dead antelope."
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Post by Reg Shoe on Mar 21, 2008 13:47:45 GMT -5
*He sighed, looking into Magda's eyes*
"It wasn't love you found, Sister Magda, that made you change. It was a reason. It was a reminder that, underneath it all, you were still a person with a choice and a heart."
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Post by Magda on Mar 21, 2008 13:52:50 GMT -5
"But I didn't even sink of myself as a person. I sought I vas- better san a person. Sat..."
((Beginning blatant borrowing from Neil Gaiman's "Fifteen Cards from a Vampire Tarot"... NOW))
"And se sing is, ve are people, but if anysing, vorse. Ve're uman, all right, vit all se fuckups and angups and stupidity sat sat means... except it's so ard to feel at first, and hyou're ungry all se time, and for somevun's sake, my best friend is a demon- an actual demon- and... and..."
She paused.
"I ad two lovers before Sivaroose. Vun of sem vas uman, at first, and e... e killed for me. Sough of course e killed anyvay, sat's vhat e did, e vas a murderer so many times over..."
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Post by Reg Shoe on Mar 21, 2008 13:58:43 GMT -5
((I love Smoke and Mirrors...))
"But you changed! Maybe your lover was the catalyst, but you were the one who chose to change! It's not impossible, just difficult."
*He smiled*
"Sometimes lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for."
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Post by Magda on Mar 21, 2008 14:00:33 GMT -5
((Oh, that's where it was originally published? I don't have that one yet; it was reprinted in one of my vampire anthologies.))
"And vhat about se umans? Ve manage to change se dead and sey'll go on being vicked."
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Post by Reg Shoe on Mar 21, 2008 14:02:00 GMT -5
((It's the collection I have it in- don't know if it's the original source. It also has Snow White as a vampire story.))
"Humans come and go. Being dead is forever."
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Post by Magda on Mar 21, 2008 14:11:42 GMT -5
((That's in another one of my vampire anthologies, actually. Tanith Lee wrote one as well, but hers was less horror and more Oscar Wilde dark fairy tale.))
Magda smiled a little.
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Post by Reg Shoe on Mar 21, 2008 14:23:53 GMT -5
((A summary of all Oscar WIlde fairy tales: Rocks fall, the hero dies.))
"I've seen alot in my time, Sister Magda. But I still haven't given up."
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Post by Magda on Mar 22, 2008 14:49:11 GMT -5
((Well, it ended with the Prince being Oscar Wilde's Sexy Jesus and instead of marrying Bianca, he saved her from vampirism and sent her back to her childhood to do it again. It sounds all Anne Rice-y but it was actually very decadent and nineteenth century romantic and stuff.))
"Hyou must be very brave," she said softly.
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Post by Reg Shoe on Mar 22, 2008 15:10:46 GMT -5
"It's easy to be brave when you know you can't die. I don't know if it even counts."
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Post by Magda on Mar 22, 2008 15:12:49 GMT -5
"Ow did hyou die?"
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Post by Reg Shoe on Mar 22, 2008 15:20:33 GMT -5
*He smiled sadly*
"It was about thirty years ago, when I was back in Ankh-Moropork. The Patrician was a man knwon as Homicidal Lord Winder, and just as bad as his name suggested. I was one of the leaders of the revolution against him, but although we survived the barricades, the new Patrician installed was just as bad. Fearing the revolutionaries who put him in power would go after him next, he hunted us down with the remnants of the secret police."
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Post by Magda on Mar 22, 2008 15:23:29 GMT -5
"Sat's umanity for hyou..." Magda muttered without thinking.
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Post by Reg Shoe on Mar 22, 2008 15:26:57 GMT -5
"It is. I wasn't the only one who died- six others were with me, only coppers trying to keep the peace."
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Post by Magda on Mar 22, 2008 15:29:02 GMT -5
"But... vouldn't sey ave been se vuns oo killed hyou? Sat means sey'd automatically be on se Patrician's side, hyes?"
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