32 - Tie Your Heart At Night To Mine

[worldofourown]

... This again?

[ Karl's expression, dripping disdain, says it all. ]

Any familiar faces out there? Hm~?

Won't you come out and dance for me, Saya?

[OOC: Have at him! Anything goes!<3 ]

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[fearthepackingchips]

Well that's a stupid question, everybody's face is familiar to somebody!

[worldofourown]

Not yours, for certain.

[ Not to Karl, anyway. ]

[fearthepackingchips]

Awww, that hurts. But I've got my own fan club! And a corps too!

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And just who.

Are you?

[fearthepackingchips]

Deadpool! At your service, oh undeadly one.

[prettyimpulsive]

Is mine still familiar, Karl?

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[ His snide expression smoothes into a pointedly polite smile. ]

Ah~

Miss Britannia. What a pleasure to see you again.

[prettyimpulsive]

You as well. How have you been?

[worldofourown]

Just wonderful.

Catching up with old [ enemies ] friends. I imagine you must be doing the same.

[prettyimpulsive]

I am. It's good to see everyone. I hardly know where to start.

[archivy]

So it would seem.

[worldofourown]

Oh.

It's you again. Brought loyal bodyguards with you this time too?

[archivy]

He never left.

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Oh?

Well, you can't blame me. I wasn't exactly keeping track. [ A grin. ] Enjoying your visit so far?

[archivy]

I have little opinion on the matter.

So Parsnip told me to drop by...

[sangreine]

[And Saya's expression also says it all, her hard stare and icy voice masking her disbelief at seeing a dead man apparently alive and well.]

...You.

((OOC: If this isn't okayyy let me know!))

SCREAAAAAAM \^^/

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[ He feels her before he sees her -- a tug of tension in his sternum, a shrill song in his blood. He can almost map her movements like a slow crawl up his spine. A terrible, gleeful glow suffuses his eyes. ]

Saya.

Now isn't this a pleasant surprise?

[ OOC: More than okay. You've made Karl a very happy stalker♥ ]

[sangreine]

[Pleasant is a feeling she hasn't known in a long time, but dreams of falling sakura and the passing tinge of sea salt aren't so far removed as to be forgotten. So she's quite confident that this interaction and pleasant don't match up. Not that she and Diva's Chevaliers ever saw eye to eye on much.]

What are you doing here? [Not the question she should be asking, but if asked what Saya is going here, Karl's answer would likely only unnerve her further.]

[The immediate matter is not where they are, but why he yet lives and how she must stop... whatever he must surely have planned. Her duty, she has learned, spans borders and oceans, families and lifetimes.]

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[ She can never know the full, frenzied, filthy spectrum of his obsession. For her death, for her blood. For her. Even now, one glimpse of her face sends a bloodthirsty, long-dormant beast in him yawning and stretching awake. ]

[ Everything monstrous in him, she intensifies. ]

[ Every agony he's suffered, she is rooted in. ]

You mean you don't remember? [ He seems to hum between his words. But his gaze is merciless. ] We were about to die, you and I. Fall hand-in-hand into a Hell for us alone. Then dear Solomon arrived to interrupt.

[ But if she's here... if he finds her before Solomon does... ]

[ They can recreate that perfect moment. They can pick up where they left off. ]

/sob, sorry for the slow

[sangreine]

[Though he doesn't technically answer her question, his words answer others. Saya hefts her sword into a ready position when his eyes burn her through whatever camera feed connects them.]

I remember. [Her sword through her body and into his, the sound of his body turning to dust. Solomon's hands over hers, pulling her blade out together.]

[She doesn't know this location beyond the strange building where she suddenly found herself, and Karl is either comfortable with his surroundings or too hyper-focused and crazy to be troubled by a little thing like being in a new place without explanation. She can't afford to be bothered either, so long as he's here.]

[izzytizzy]

Erectile dysfunction?

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...

Excuse me?

[izzytizzy]

That's why you're so angry.
You can't get it up.

[worldofourown]

And you have, what, frequent issues with this yourself?

[izzytizzy]

I'ma girl.