010 :: Action/Video

[liveontoday]

[Just when you think it's safe to go back outside...

Saya will just be in the midst of all these new people, rushing to and fro in the City.]

[Video]

It looks like we have guests again. A lot of them. That's not so different though, right?

... Ah, if anyone -- mm, never mind. Kai, Riku, if you're out there? Let me know, alright?

[OOC: 4th Wall, go nuts. :3 ALSO, if I don't answer right away? It's because my internet sucks currently and likes to die at odd times. I will get back to you eventually.]

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[purebredqueens]

Really, I could ask the same of you.

[His head tilts, faintly mocking.]

You needn't run away. We both know I would not stoop to violence in such a crowded place. That is such a pitifully human trait. Wouldn't you agree?

[liveontoday]

True, you never seemed to get your own hands dirty with it. You've never had much problem promoting violence though.

[purebredqueens]

Violence is second nature for humans. They lack the willpower to transcend it. They always have.

[A faint sneer].

Surely there is no harm in playing off their weakness to our advantage?

[liveontoday]

[This conversation is starting to needle her in a way no other has. Her eyes flash red.]

Of course there's harm. Even if it is a weakness... it's a weakness no matter who uses it. Particularly creatures like us.

[Yes, she's admitting that out loud. She has no reason to hide it from Amshel, of all people.]

Humans are capable of so much more and you can't just use them. You can't just use others. It's...

[Why is she trying to explain this to him.]

[purebredqueens]

[Her outburst elicits nothing beyond an amused smile. She always has been so easy to read.]

Your pathos on these humans is wasted, Saya. The world functions on a hierarchy of the strong versus the weak. As Chiropterans, we simply take our place at the tip of the food-chain. It is our natural right.

[liveontoday]

[She shakes her head vehemently to that.]

Our natural right is to live. That's all it ever has been.

[purebredqueens]

[The foolish simplicity of her statement makes him sneer.] We cannot live without taking sustenance from lesser beings, Saya. Even these precious humans you defend are not above it. It is simply the natural order of things.

[liveontoday]

[Oh that stings. That's the part she absolutely hates about being what she is. She brushes past it though, determined. She was weak when it came to you last time, she's determined not to play that part again.]

Some humans are greedy and take what they don't need to take. Greediness isn't just a human condition, Amshel. You're as bad as those people are.