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Post by Megan on Mar 15, 2012 23:19:13 GMT -5
"I'd assume they'd feel pretty similar," she said awkwardly, coming a little closer again.
She frowned, sympathetic despite herself.
"...was it your whole head? If I may ask- I don't mean any disrespect-"
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Post by Victor von Doom on Mar 15, 2012 23:21:32 GMT -5
He began reattaching the pieces in a businesslike fashion.
"No on both accounts."
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Post by Megan on Mar 15, 2012 23:26:44 GMT -5
"That's probably why you were able to- oh, fuck. I'm sorry, I babble when I'm nervous, and on top of that I feel like such an asshole right now for-"
She cut herself off, swallowing hard. The man was a supervillain, he'd just compared her to a young him, she'd been her usual bigmouthed self, and-
Oh God.
The worst possible ending to this conversation was now very vividly playing in Megan's head. She stumbled back.
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Post by Victor von Doom on Mar 16, 2012 8:24:00 GMT -5
"It is unsightly, isn't it. If you'd like to pursue study of magic further than manifested heat, there are several academies that would take you on here in Latveria."
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Post by Megan on Mar 16, 2012 12:23:30 GMT -5
"I can't."
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Post by Victor von Doom on Mar 16, 2012 12:25:05 GMT -5
"I imagine your employer cannot afford to let you go."
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Post by Megan on Mar 16, 2012 12:27:43 GMT -5
"That's the understatement of a lifetime," she replied darkly.
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Post by Victor von Doom on Mar 16, 2012 12:30:11 GMT -5
"And being the only help meet to him, you will be kept on until he finds a more suitable companion, or one of you dies. You would have been better off with Magneto."
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Post by Megan on Mar 16, 2012 12:34:39 GMT -5
"I'm twenty-two and he's only forty-seven," she said with an unhappy arm-folding. "He's years away from retirement, let alone death-"
She froze and looked at him.
"Stay out of my head-"
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Post by Victor von Doom on Mar 16, 2012 12:38:41 GMT -5
"There was scarcely any need. And in this disordered modern era, we are all near death, without a competent leader at the helm."
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Post by Megan on Mar 16, 2012 12:40:24 GMT -5
"Nobody'd dare to start a war now."
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Post by Victor von Doom on Mar 16, 2012 12:44:44 GMT -5
"Has the threat of some distant deity ready to punish transgressors with hellfire ever stopped men and women from making war before? Even when the threat has been manifestly carried out. These are dangerous times, and Doom intends to respond accordingly. But even such a mighty ruler can only be tasked with providing for his own peasants."
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Post by Megan on Mar 16, 2012 12:47:38 GMT -5
Megan swallowed and averted her eyes.
"You're going to kill me, aren't you."
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Post by Victor von Doom on Mar 16, 2012 12:50:15 GMT -5
"You haven't even seen the mountains yet. Rest assured, if you are killed it will be at the end of your stay."
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Post by Megan on Mar 16, 2012 12:51:11 GMT -5
"That's not a vote of confidence-"
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