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Post by Victor von Doom on Mar 16, 2012 12:56:44 GMT -5
"You could die with the satisfaction that your death caused an international incident. Of course not, Ms. Elness, you take me for one of the Soviets."
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Post by Megan on Mar 16, 2012 12:58:32 GMT -5
Or a supervillain.
"I thought- because I'd seen-"
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Post by Victor von Doom on Mar 16, 2012 13:00:42 GMT -5
"You don't intend to tell anyone, of course. That would be a gross breach of confidence, and death would come as a necessary consequence."
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Post by Megan on Mar 16, 2012 13:05:19 GMT -5
"Is it not assumed or some- sorry."
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Post by Victor von Doom on Mar 16, 2012 13:06:55 GMT -5
"No need for assumption. Your countrymen know Doom is a disfigured madman in a metal mask, the specifics would be a footnote. But for the sake of my privacy."
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Post by Megan on Mar 16, 2012 13:08:42 GMT -5
Megan nodded.
"And I'm... sorry."
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Post by Victor von Doom on Mar 16, 2012 13:09:08 GMT -5
"Yes, I'm sure you are wholly penitent."
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Post by Megan on Mar 16, 2012 13:09:59 GMT -5
"No, that you-"
She struggled for the words.
"I... studied that kind of thing. I was almost a nurse."
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Post by Victor von Doom on Mar 16, 2012 13:10:48 GMT -5
"It was a different time," he said simply.
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Post by Megan on Mar 16, 2012 13:12:10 GMT -5
"Still."
She lifted a hand as though to touch his arm in comfort, but only slowly lowered it.
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Post by Victor von Doom on Mar 16, 2012 13:19:27 GMT -5
"Over the course of twenty years I have rebuilt this country from nothing, in my own image, and liberated an oppressed people. My private ventures are successful and the Latverian people venerate me as a god. I appreciate your sympathies, but do not pity me."
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Post by Megan on Mar 16, 2012 13:20:25 GMT -5
"I pity your actual physical pain-"
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Mar 16, 2012 13:20:57 GMT -5
"What's going on here?"
Adrian Veidt came striding across the yard.
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Post by Victor von Doom on Mar 16, 2012 13:22:27 GMT -5
"Nothing of your concern. Continue as you were, Ms. Elness."
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Post by Adrian Veidt on Mar 16, 2012 13:23:56 GMT -5
"My apologies, Your Lordship-"
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