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What do you believe happens to the dead once they leave the City?

I won't contest religious beliefs.

[Flagged to Dean // Open to Police Force Members and Affiliates]
I'd like to request a few days off, assuming no one else gets murdered. Please.

[ooc: Euphie left, she and Justin had a weird thing going on that was rather emotional, and Justin's dealing the only way he knows how ~~that doesn't involve self-destructive habits he has outgrown~~, which is... thinking. (For those keeping score, he was already upset about Mara and the police force's lack of fixing things.)]

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Much the same way pet dogs enjoy wearing leashes.

It's the only life some people have. Not everyone looks forward to death.

Do you know what being wholly dead is like?

They ought to. It's the sole highlight in their tedious lives.

...Poetically? Or literally?

I'm not inclined to disagree, but other people think differently.

Literally, preferably. I've read enough poems.

Delusions make the world go round.

[Ever-so-dry.]

In my own world, I'd died.

The poems don't do it justice. Or mention that it's inconveniently temporary.

Let them have their delusions. It makes them less miserable.

I died, too. Three times, and it never takes.

You don't sound like a poetry fan.

True enough.

[He knows that painfully well.]

Three times? My my...

I like it fine. But those on death are a tad pretentious. Seeing is believing, after all.

Poets are usually pretentious.

You were in the prison here for some time, weren't you? You have a history of being suicidal?

[It pays to file police paperwork. Plus, there aren't enough people in this City who want to die. Company is nice.]

[A half-frown.]

...Not in the City's prison. My elder brother had me contained in a personal cell.

[For his own - and everyone else's - good.]

What of it?

[His suicidal streak isn't a secret. But he's wary - ever-wary - of discussing personal affairs with strangers.]

That sounds like a healthy sibling relationship.

[Emotionless delivery--it's hard to tell if he's serious or joking. Justin is almost always serious.]

Nothing. It's just interesting, finding someone else who can help but feel disappointed when they come back.

[Actually? It's the healthiest one in their family.]

'Healthy' is a relative term.

...It's a greater disappointment when you're as old as I am.

[That's... not good.]

How old are you? Hundreds of years? Thousands?

[Story of their entire family.]

Hundreds.

The ones older than myself boast a special brand of insanity.

Lucky them.

You're a vampire?

A Chiropteran.

[Vampiric only in that they're immortal and drink blood.]

I've only heard that word once. Do you mind if I ask for a definition?

Aren't you curious~?

[He's not sharing deets with someone in the Police, Justin :|]

Planning to write a dissertation on blood-suckers?

[That's not terribly generous. The only vampires Justin really hates are--well, only Luke Valentine, actually.]

Yes, I'm curious, but only because it's been at least two years since I've heard the word used.

[Sorry. Karl's an ever-present threat to public safety. So. Yeah.]

Really?

[Curious himself now.]

For whom was it last used?

[That just makes him interesting.]

Yes, but I wasn't... wholly aware of what was going on. Only one of the involved parties is still in the City, to my knowledge.

[...He has a tendency to draw a certain type of people...]

And who might this 'party' be?

That's not information that I can disclose.

Of course you can't.

[He'll just ask around. He always does.]

...Your name is...?

Justin.

[And his is Karl, assuming all reports are accurate, but outright saying as much seems... rude.]

A pleasure.

[There are reports on him? Oh goody. He loves publicity.]

I'll leave you to your - philosophy corner.

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