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Post by Teja on Mar 27, 2019 23:41:08 GMT -5
"He's not a thing," she said heatedly. "I'm not a thing either."
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 27, 2019 23:49:22 GMT -5
"I thought," Johannes continued, "that he might have been good for my kind. Herbert seemed to think so when he called me here. 'Oh, Vati, this city is so wonderful, this country might be everything we need-'"
He spit on the ground.
"You have seen what this place has done to him."
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Post by Teja on Mar 27, 2019 23:52:59 GMT -5
"Him and every other kid his age," she said with a bite of exasperation she disliked. She wanted to feel purified by rage, but it was so hard. She knew him so well as a friend; she had caught herself hoping this could be fixed, instead of thinking he should be stopped.
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 27, 2019 23:56:55 GMT -5
"He is not himself," Johannes said vehemently. "He-"
He swallowed.
"If you had seen him before-"
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Post by Teja on Mar 28, 2019 0:04:20 GMT -5
He was going to kill her, one way or another, she couldn't help but think. He'd bite her here, drain her and leave her to the sunlight. She'd be nothing but ash. No one would know what had become of her.
Teja hated herself for trembling.
"Well, you're a terrible father," she said, refusing to die pleading. "If the way he has to be when he's bricked up in a tomb with you is his self then I don't blame him for trying to be the exact opposite as soon as he's free."
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 28, 2019 0:11:05 GMT -5
"I kept him with me because I had to! You have seen it- you've seen... the world..."
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Post by Teja on Mar 28, 2019 0:12:16 GMT -5
"You failed him as a parent, and you know it! I know you know it!"
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 28, 2019 0:14:52 GMT -5
"I failed him the moment I let him go," Johannes said bitterly. "If he had stayed, he never would have become..."
He grit his teeth and abruptly shattered the nearest window.
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Post by Teja on Mar 28, 2019 0:16:52 GMT -5
It was so cold here. He didn't even have to bite her; he could just leave her here. Starve her. Let her die of exposure. She didn't know which fate would be worse.
She had the half-mad thought of provoking him to do it now, quickly.
"You failed him before that. You've failed everyone you've ever loved," she spat.
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 28, 2019 0:19:04 GMT -5
"He was dying- do you understand that? Because I let him leave. And now- now my son is dead, and he has left behind this great lumbering thing-"
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Post by Teja on Mar 28, 2019 0:21:00 GMT -5
"You know why you fail? Why your story always ends in failure? I'll tell you, because I'm nice like that. It's not because you're cruel. It's not in your nature to be cruel. It's because it's in your nature to give up-"
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 28, 2019 0:23:33 GMT -5
"It is in everyone's nature to be cruel."
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Post by Teja on Mar 28, 2019 0:23:56 GMT -5
"When provoked-"
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Post by Graf von Krolock on Mar 28, 2019 0:24:53 GMT -5
"And tonight, I have provoked them all."
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Post by Teja on Mar 28, 2019 0:25:14 GMT -5
She swung at him.
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