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016 - Like A Wreck We Die To The Very Core - Video

/11: 03 PM/

[The feed starts with the device clattering to the ground. It shows a sliver of moon glowing in the sky, and the silhouettes of trees. Farther off, glittering placidly, is a lake.]

[A moment later, a sickening crunch. A thick drip-drip-drip. Red drops speckle the screen. The grass glistens with fresh-spilled blood. Over the noise, a horrible gurgling is heard. And a voice, hoarse and sibilant.]

...Useless. I can't even -

[Wet swallowing. A blood-slick hand scrabbles for the device. There is a blurred view of a dark-haired man. Slumped on his knees. A deep, deadly gash seeping from his chest. His eyes go bright with rage. And the feed snaps off.]

/05: 45 AM/

[Shirtless, Karl sits by the edge of the lake. Moon-bathing? The water casts an eerie shimmer on his body; spine a string of graduated pebbles under the pale skin. There is a dark wound across his chest. Jagged, ugly, the edges blood-flecked. Karl ignores it, hair falling dark around his face. Rage pours off him in sheets.]

Nothing poetic about a temporary death. Merely pathetic. Much like everything else here.

...

It wasn't true. The oblivion. The innocence. Nothing. I knew that. Does the City expect me to pine for it now? To wish for my worthless human past?

Never.

I know what I am. I know what she is.

We never rest. And we never forget.

[He turns his head, as if listening for something. Notices the blinking device. His eyes flash red.]

Ugh - !

[...And the device gets snatched up and hurled into the lake. Splash!]

[OOC: Don't panic, City! Karl requires no medics or polices! He's just in one of his destructive moods. And, um, has just attempted to rip his heart out of his own ribcage and crush it. Alas, with his healing abilities, it wasn't a sparkling success. Assume that replies will be delayed, while he stews.]

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What the hell are you doing? You can't die here, remember? [Stressed Cherub!]

We went over this already.

Yeah, we did. YOU CAN'T DIE HERE. You'll just turn into...whatever it was Charlie was. That's not dead. People come back when they die here. It's really not worth it, unless you're that bored you want to kill yourself in every possible way!

Bored. Or if I have enough time. And I do. I intend to try every way there is.

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Done making a fool out of yourself?

It wasn't supposed to be a free show.

The feelings aren't mutual and never will be. Stop wasting your time on this one-sided love affair.

It's more complicated than that.

[Revelations!]

Her blood is the only thing that can kill me!

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You're mistaken.

That is who you are, who you should be. Someone made you into something else.

That 'something else' is what I am now.

I know what you are now. You told me.

But you've given in to madness.

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[Well there isn't much point replying with Karl's device underwater, but these things always find their way back somehow]

There's nothing poetic about death, temporary or not. Are you insane?

[As if that needs an answer.

Yes.

[There is your answer :|]

[Quite so.]

I've seen people come back from dust and ash. There isn't an easy way out, just a few that smell worse in the attempt.

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Karl.

[Not quite a hurt whine -- (she wishes it had worked, so badly) -- but she's certainly upset. ~~Cry. She hates Chase so much right now.~~]

Carla. You weren't supposed to see that.

[He's despondent over Chase's information as well. What he learnt from Mr. Valentine only compounds that despair.]

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No one was. [Although the others probably weren't quite as likely to descend into a screaming fit over his failure...] Where are you?

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Are you fucking stupid?

Only for not destroying that damned device.

What the hell, Karl.

[He's too busy facepalming to type at you.]

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[ Jast makes the wild places of the city his home, but he stays on the other side of the lake. He knows very well that he is not wanted. His only offering is the murmurs of a soft song. He hopes it helps. He could help, if asked, but... he understands he won't be. He's so very sorry, Karl. ]

[He'll hear the mournful strains of the song, over the susurration of lakewater. And he'll close his eyes and curl into himself, head in hands. The melody helps, because the pretty, mysterious words make him think of Diva. But it also doesn't, because Diva isn't in the City. And if she was, she'd only laugh at his foolishness.]

[He's alone here. Alone everywhere.]

[Nothing to say, just enjoying the show.]

[Knowing Karl, there'll be yet-more shows to come! >D]

[Getting the popcorn ready!]

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