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[ The feed is blurred and badly-framed. Tangles of red hair. Glimpses of Li's scowling face. The clink-clink of chains. Someone is clearly on the move, and jostling the device. After a moment of vertigo-inducing struggle, Li says, with effort, ]

Funny. I didn't think -- anything could make you twitch and squawk so much.

Not unless it came with batteries.

[ Oy, get your minds out of the gutter. They aren't up to anything. Mad Hatter just seems to have ants in nir pants, ever since the clock struck midnight. There's a longer pause -- more struggling -- before Li manages to reach for the device. His palm covers the lens as he switches it off -- but not before asking, ]

You're not turning into a pumpkin, are you? [ More hopeful than concerned. At least if one half of this handcuffed duo is a pumpkin, the other half can eat. ]

[ ooc: Part 2 of the Handcuffed! curse. Starring one jerkass assassin and one skittish Satan of Pride 8( As always, threadjacking is mightily encouraged! ]

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Beware, Cook. Demons are not for eating.

I never said I'd eat her!

[ .....................Yet. ]

I know the mind of man.

Wha -- ?!

[ A-ha. A-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. ]

[ H E A D ]

[ GO ]

[ B O O M ]

God, no, that's. [ Drags face. ] I wouldn't --

[ Deep breath. Try and. Not go any redder. ]

I'm not even sure she's an actual lady.

...you do not cannibalize men?

W -- No!

[ clearing throat. awkwardly. ]

I'm pretty sure there are laws against that type of thing.

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You speak as if One is so crude often, your own words speak more.

[Ne's at least stopped once they're away from the castle. If he wasn't such dead weight ne could have teleported them.]

Truth has a certain infallibility.

[ He makes use of the pause to rub the reddened skin around his wrist. And to ask, at last, the burning question, ]

What exactly are you running from?

Does it matter? As long as... heit isn't here. [Damn the part of nem that accepts Kira so hard in this place.]

It.

[ No eyerolling. No rubbing temples. No kicking the nearest object in range. But the look on Hei's face indicates he's tempted to do all three. It's been a long fucking day. Eventually, in a tone of forced calm, ]

We might run into It again. So it's in your best interests. To tell me what. It. Is.

Not necessarily. [Ne does have a good idea of where he spends his time after all.] Or you could just cooperate and follow Ones lead.

[ Exhaling, Hei closes his eyes again. Rumpled and seemingly in-control, but there is a fury in all his lines and sinews. ]

Is that what you say to all your victims, before you drag them to a cave somewhere? [ Although that word -- victim -- is laughable on his lips. He's never been the type. Mostly it's apparent Hatter just wants to put space between herself and the castle. ]

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At least someone else is suffering.

[ Offscreen, his expression transitions from a dark glower to a look of wide-eyed confusion. (It's an act, but a good one.) ]

You enjoy watching other people suffer?

Only a few people in particular.

People like Miss Hatter, you mean?

[ :c ]

You're calling her Miss?

I figure it suits her more than 'Mister.'

[ Yes -- he does consider Hatter female. It's likely sexist, but only a woman would be such a special degree of Fucked Up. ]

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Poor prisoners.

Escapees, if Hatter's behavior is anything to go by.

Hatter can survive some taunting. ( Hint hint: make it fun. )

[ But Hatter's idea of Fun is getting naked and blowing someone up. ]

[ Perhaps even in that order :3 ]

I'm sure. It's just sitting still she seems to have a problem with.

( Hatter does far more than that. Ask the brides of Lucifer. )

I can hold her down. ( Now there's a sight. ) There are ways to keep a satan still.

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