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"Gone fishing."

[ so don't leave messages to ruin the after fishing glow !!!

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[sizetwelve]

How poor? Did you get a look at his hands? Any plaster?
Band-Aids?

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Nothing wrong with his hands. Honestly speaking, he looked like he got mugged by a particularly gung ho assailant who cared more about the process than getting whatever was in his wallet.

[sizetwelve]

He was probably leading his wallet by a string to lure the mugger closer. He really ought to stop surprising people capable of defending themselves. Might really hurt himself one of these days.
Wonder who he jumped to get that reaction. Raina couldn't have managed that much from what I saw.

1/2

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[Oh so this is why he likes Mary. She, too, suckles killers instead of the victims. Bless.]

I'll appreciate you not to put such vivid imagery in my head. I'm not keen on breaking this reputation I've gained around work as being unable to laugh at anything.
Do you think she'll try? Raina. To get back at him.

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It feels like we're in our own war.
A smaller war inside this Cold War going on.
A constant battle, if you will.
Does it feel that way to you, too?

[sizetwelve]

I won't repeat the manner of things she kept on about when hallucinating, then.

[ Because she's a pal or something. (Or something) ]

If she's smart then she'll have to retaliate to gain some sort of footing, since I think it's only a matter of time before he tries something again. This seemed personal. She was strangled.
But because of that personal factor, I don't know if she would have it in her to follow through to the end. It might be a surprise. He did attack Frederick, after all.

[sizetwelve]

[ Give her a beat before she addresses the rest. Because it's worth a different branch of thought, though it's just a hop and skip away and not actually an alien one to her. Long considered. Long processed.

This is an old game. ]

Is that a new feeling for you?

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Seems to me if any of us were smart, we'd take this to the authorities, or someone who could put a stop to him better than just lashing out. Going back and forth in our civil war until we're far more scarred than we needed to be and dragging others in who have no business being involved doesn't feel smart at all.

It's not new. Nice to have a second opinion, though.

[Just now there are powers and the like...having seen how poorly it can go back home, he's not keen to watch it play out again. Or take part. He can't speak up or out, though, can he? The dog has been forbid to bark. That's the time when he chews through his leash, sneaks around, and bites instead. Not new and if he gets involved (he's already involved, Goddamnit), probably not going to get any less complicated.

Boy it sure would be nice if they could just call the police or the Super imPorts but HAHA EVERYONE IS A SHADY LYING ASS WITH STUFF TO HIDE HUH

civil war: rise of aged cockroaches]

[sizetwelve]

I have no interest dragging others in, but no doubt it will happen.
Crane seems to be the one intent on making his statement. Whatever that is, it's going to be what continues to draw people towards him. Do you believe the authorities will handle that any more definitively than us?

[ It isn't entirely rhetorical, but worth asking. He would know better than other imPorts. And if he's thinking of her being dragged, she can handle being dragged down to the depths of Hell. She has a time share. ]

It's like a siege. The darkness of the looming threat is a constant, and there isn't much to do to escape it within the pillars of reason, but it's familiar and preferable to the rare days they throw flaming heads over the wall. At least until starvation drops in, but by then it's too late.
The closer we are to one another, the more violent we become.
The violence is inevitable, whether it's in rejecting our humanity or defending it.

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They could try. He does work for them, after all. It's personal that way. If they felt it beyond them, we could at least go to some of the heroes around with powers far greater than our own. Offensively speaking, I should add. [Because dragonpower has its greatness, no doubt.] That only works if there's nothing to hide. If you're willing for them to do a little digging on you. No offense to Raina, but if she doesn't have anything to hide yet, she's probably working her way to that.

[That makes it sort of sound like Will has nothing to hide, doesn't it? That he's better for either being the noble, good sort with no guilt, or he's just hidden whatever would make him look terrible well and these others haven't. Certainly not the case (in Heropa).]

I wouldn't want authorities snooping too deeply into me, either. I understand, but it doesn't make it any less frustrating.

[He can be a very bad man, too. If Chimary passed out in one of his places for a full day, who knows how many dogs would have crawled on top of her and used her as a daybed.

Lord.]

Could always eat the flaming heads to stave off starvation. They've been nice enough to cook them first. Seems a waste. [!? ya nasty]
Violence is part of humanity, too. Someone out there probably uses it to embrace what they consider makes them human.
If they're even human in the first place. We've got all sorts running about.

[sizetwelve]

You're speaking a lot on what we could do, but obviously that all occurred to you in the very beginning. You weren't just waiting for enough evidence to make a case, were you?

[ That's a rhetorical question. Simon didn't say.

Now who's the one with the imagery, Will Graham? Don't think she's not playing back those phone conversations she heard. Even just from Raina's end... It was interesting (that's the nice word). ]

We need a new word for humanity, I suppose. It's too limiting.

[ But most words are. ]

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There is no case. As far as any authorities have to be concerned, none of this is happening. We're not having a discussion about anything right now because there's nothing to discuss. That's how it has to be.

[It was interesting and full of people.]

Maybe there's something in Russian that fits better. Or German. I couldn't say.

[sizetwelve]

[ Has to is heavy. It's something that requires too much reliance.

But she vastly prefers nothing. ]

L’appel du vide.

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[Gurl you know you're talking to uncultured swine, give him a second to kickstart the whole translation feature. He grew up in Louisiana but Lord he isn't equipped to ask for much in French that doesn't relate to murder science or going to the bathroom.

That is some lovely language she's just used. Badum tish.]

Perfect.

[sizetwelve]

Empty poetry is unfortunately the grandest contribution I can make right now.
I haven't learned anything you likely don't know. I've no idea why Crane's attacked the two of them, but honestly this is starting to look like a very regrettable love triangle.

[ Oh also Raina is not human??? But that one she doesn't feel the need to talk about, whether or not Will knows. If he doesn't, she won't say. If he does, there's no point in saying. ]

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I'm starting to get some idea of why, and it might be easier if it was indeed a regrettable love triangle.
I assume you were listening to her side of our conversation the other day. Am I wrong?

[Does she have any questions about eating the rude because now is her CHANCE.]

[sizetwelve]

Not something as cliché as hubris, I hope.

[ Ugh Will Graham. Is she that predictable or is he empathizing? Cut that the fudge out. If her pout could be visible through text... ]

You're not wrong.
Only her side.

[ As if that makes it better. Do you think she cares??? Wow she doesn't. But welp there were already some questions, son. Apparently Raina has hallucinated some...shenanigans. ]

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There may be some of that involved.
You had me promise not to turn away that day in your kitchen.
Have you wondered since what might have led me to keeping that promise?
Is there anything you would turn away from, Mary?

[Because he's been burned by much worse (in his head, at least) and he's come to understand that not only is it better having the devil he knows on his side...the devils are sometimes just much better company than people who haven't been dragged down into the real shit of the world.]

[sizetwelve]

[ She knows Will Graham hadn't turned from Hannibal Lecter. The foolish man had let himself get gutted from the front. What else is there to wonder? Perhaps if there's a certain way he prefers to have his heart cut out and cooked? ]

Certainly not a blood brother.

[ Bad joke, but only a half lie. ]

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[There is a wealth of fanart detailing how he'd approve of his heart being cut out and cooked, so maybe.]

Is that what you consider me?

[sizetwelve]

Not my words.
On April Fool's it's what Frederick called you. Hannibal Lecter's blood brother.

[ Practically. Has she been sitting on that? She should get off her ass and move around once in awhile. Lazy Mary. ]

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How poetic and unsurprising.

[He says nothing about it being wrong, though, which should be telling enough in its own right. No, he didn't get this particular memo.]

Going by what you know and have seen, and Raina's half of the conversation, can you now understand why my discussing breakfast sausage wasn't taken well?

[Do you get the rhyme, Mary.

Do you get how it extends. Do you get that Baltimore is full of people eaters?]

[sizetwelve]

[ A moment. WORST NIGHTMARES CONFIRMED. That two percent chance was supposed to be barely entertained. Not so anymore. This really is an incredible test for her, isn't it?

tl;dr: ya nasty ]

I'm not certain if 'understand' is the word I'd use.

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[Looks at this oddly painted picture and decides it's better the way kids do it: a pig is a few circles with stick legs and a curly tail. Crude and not too detailed, but it's clear to everyone who sees it that's what it is. It takes a certain sort of asshole to not look a child's drawing and immediately understand what it is when they manage to be so direct, no matter how crude. So laying it out without any fancy, spicy words to make sure her lack of understanding doesn't meant a lack of getting it leaves him with this:]

You are talking to a cannibal right now.

[Funny thing, this is easier in text. Not because "writing" it is easier than saying it, certainly not, but...there is a better chance that putting it in this way might have him heard. Completely. But then again, Mary has none of the experiences of those back in Baltimore to read that as "I attended a Lecter dinner party twice" so.]

[sizetwelve]

[ What is there to do but laugh? It's a good thing it can't be heard, maybe, but that wouldn't stop her. It isn't exactly her usual sort of inappropriately timed laugh, either, since even Mary can be horrified by shit, all right? It's that of course it is laugh. Of course cannibalism. Isn't he a parole officer for a cannibal?

Really, she had pieced enough of this together by, as he said, everything she's seen and heard. That's not what she meant by not understanding. His crude little drawing approach is an unnecessary joke at this point, but that's also why she laughs. Horrified, but...more understanding. That much she can. In the wake of one of the most cringe-worthy aspects that make up a monster, she can laugh, and she can appreciate. Hearing (okay, seeing) it said so plainly does make it impossible to beat around the bush and entertain the chance that she could have been guessing wrong.

She can still cringe, though, even while recalling a constant theme in the Baltimore gang's interactions. Shared trauma through Hannibal Lecter. Trauma that causes all of them a visceral reaction worthy of a ballad. Are they all cannibals? Only some? Where is the line between Hannibal, Will, and the rest? Why is he the blood brother? ]

By choice?