013 - Mile-High Apple
Jun. 26th, 2013 12:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deadly_nedI'm, um.
I'm leaving.
Thomas - my inmate - he's...graduated, he's left the Barge, so I think that's...probably my cue to leave too.
I'm...terrible at goodbyes, and let's be completely honest, I'm quiet enough that most of the Barge doesn't know I'm actually here, so I doubt I need to stay very long.
That sounds terrible.
I'm sorry. Something's come up. I have to go.
[The Piemaker - nervous, clearly hiding something, and agitated - leans over to shut off his communicator. Unbeknownst to him, he'll be back in a matter of days for reasons not clearly stated in this post]
[Private to the Marquis de Carabas]
And now it doesn't matter what you know.
Good luck graduating, you....bad, bad person.
I'm leaving.
Thomas - my inmate - he's...graduated, he's left the Barge, so I think that's...probably my cue to leave too.
I'm...terrible at goodbyes, and let's be completely honest, I'm quiet enough that most of the Barge doesn't know I'm actually here, so I doubt I need to stay very long.
That sounds terrible.
I'm sorry. Something's come up. I have to go.
[The Piemaker - nervous, clearly hiding something, and agitated - leans over to shut off his communicator. Unbeknownst to him, he'll be back in a matter of days for reasons not clearly stated in this post]
[Private to the Marquis de Carabas]
And now it doesn't matter what you know.
Good luck graduating, you....bad, bad person.
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Date: 2013-06-28 04:08 am (UTC)And before you ask, no, I'm not threatening you. I'm asking you to, as you leave this ship, not take leave of your senses.
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Date: 2013-06-28 04:11 am (UTC)I've killed for Chuck. And I would...kill again. I would do everything I can to make sure she was alive and that we could be together. I love her. And anything that threatens her - anything that threatens us, as in, say, revealing a secret that could ostracize us both - I take very, very seriously.
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Date: 2013-06-28 04:15 am (UTC)Your love is an inspiration to us all.
Would you like to know a secret?
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Date: 2013-06-28 04:18 am (UTC)private
Date: 2013-06-28 04:26 am (UTC)[This, a lie, but one told with perfect precision.]
You should take me seriously. But if you're going to threaten me, find a real weakness.
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Date: 2013-06-28 04:32 am (UTC)You still owe me.
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Date: 2013-06-28 04:37 am (UTC)this universe.
How does that not warrant an expiration date?!
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Date: 2013-06-28 04:44 am (UTC). . . Well, there is one thing, now that I think about it.
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Date: 2013-06-28 04:44 am (UTC)private
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Date: 2013-06-28 04:56 am (UTC)Touch a dead thing back to life, and there's a minute grace period. Sixty seconds. After those sixty seconds are up, you have a choice to make. You can either touch the thing you touched again and it goes back to being dead, forever. Or you can leave that thing alive longer than a minute, and something else, randomly chosen in the near proximity of approximately the same life value will die.
And just because you've let something else live past the sixty second mark doesn't mean they're safe. Anything I make alive again, if I touch at any point I'll kill them forever.
Also those that remain living tend to...not die of natural causes. They can still die by accidents or homicide, but...
I touched my dog Digby when I was ten years old. Nineteen years later and he's still alive and well with no signs of aging. It's..
I worry it's immortality. For a given value of immortality - there's a reason I don't let Digby out in traffic.
And that's it. Those are the rules, as I'm led to understand them through a near-lifetime of experimentation, trial and error.
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Date: 2013-06-28 05:01 am (UTC)[Immortality.]
Your debt's cleared, then. Don't you feel better?
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Date: 2013-06-28 05:08 am (UTC)[And he's just gonna start laughing here, Ned, sorry.]
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