poly_chromatic | { 03 } THE LIGHT, IT BURNS. also; In Which Ed Overshares

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{ 03 } THE LIGHT, IT BURNS. also; In Which Ed Overshares

[PUBLIC to all; mostly accidental -- he was just trying to film it for his own amusement and somehow ended up broadcasting]

[Have some video of a hand. Just a hand; no wrist attached, no arm attached, no PERSON attached. Very pale, and twitching slightly. Sitting all by itself on the counter. There's a pool of blood surrounding it, but it's mostly tacky by now.

There's also an Ed snickering in the background.]

Dude. I had no fucking idea that could happen. It's like a zombie only a thousand times better.

[Rudy, this is Ed's accidental homage to you; he ate your heart and saw your handiwork and it's given him Ideas.]

[PRIVATE to Frankie]

Okay man, I get your deal now.

[OW. Your heart hurt. :/ ]

[Ed's currently eaten hearts from both Frankie (Sun) and Rudy (Art). ...he's had Deceitful from McGee too, but he's biding his time on obnoxious with that one.]

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Except for when it didn't.

And I can live without that, the rest more than makes up for it. I burned like a motherfucker anyway.

Dunno what to tell you.

If you're so sure about it, convince me. Why would you want to give that up? You're untouchable. You seriously gave it up because you missed...what, sunrise?

[That is a bullshit reason, Ed dislikes it.

Even the Ed that dislikes vampirism thinks it's a lame excuse.]

Don't remember signing up to tell you my life story, kid.

I wasn't asking you to. I'm just curious.

[For...*reasons*. That will never be admitted.]

[Uh-huh, just you wait til he has a few minutes to satisfy his curiosity with these hearts, Ed.]

It's complicated.

Have any idea what happens if you starve?

[Ffff. He will not be thrilled about that.]

Life sucks? A lot? I was starving when I got here; kinda felt like I was gonna die. Again. ...Why?

[You weren't starving, Ed. Not really. You were just new. And being melodramatic about hunger pangs.]

It's important. Untouchable... maybe, maybe not.

What if there was no blood?

[A long pause, and now he actually looks a little...uncomfortable, for all that he makes a show of otherwise.]

Dunno, I haven't exactly gotten that far in the manual.

[Translation: Jerry didn't cover that before he got here.]

Not a fucking drop. Night after night, getting sicker and more fucked up.

Cure'd sound pretty good then.

But there's always blood. There's always gonna be somebody. I mean, unless you wipe out your entire food source, but. We're smart about it, we're not greedy. Just take what you need, don't kill unless you overdrink.

[He might not have embraced the rules yet, but he knows them, at least.]

Plus they've got that shit in the bottles here.

Probably doesn't spread as easy for you.

All we had was bottled, by the end, and not a lot of it. Not even animal. Fucking riots. Dumbshit kids digging up graveyards hoping for blood. Subsiders, sick enough they didn't care what they attacked.

Doesn't work the same everywhere.

Well how the fuck does that happen? Keep up with demand, it's not hard. If you're not making enough, open more places and hire more people. I mean...I never got that. Sure, I was in the camp of "they can't eat everybody" because they'd populate the planet and kill off the food source, but. If you're just making it anyway...There shouldn't be a problem with that kind of shit.

Making what? Where do you think blood comes from?

Dude, don't you watch any movies? Synthetic shit. I'm assuming if they get to the point where everybody's dead the only option's to make it in a lab.

Movies are bullshit.

Been trying for years-- best fuckin minds on the planet-- no luck.

A thousand monkeys with a thousand typewriters? Gotta happen sooner or later.

Not that it'll be anything but shit anyway.

Isn't gonna be a later.

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