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[dignity_misery]

[Carla has a set of keys in her hand. two of them are long and ornate, the other is pink. She has Peanut in her lap, a wilted rose on the table. She's staring quietly at nothing, for a long time, but the video isn't an accident.]

I loved him.

[A shocking admission from someone so resentful of the emotion. She turns the keys over in her hand, listening to them clink. But then she's quiet again, for a long time. The puppy in her lap squirms and wriggles, hiccuping up smoke. Carla pets him with her other hand before her eyes fall intently on to the camera. She's decided something.]

I want Rex. Don't make me hurt you, Gazelle.


[Message to Blood+ Folk]

[She holds up the pink key. It's to the mansion.]

Should I give it back now?

[She asks the question gruffly, but the truth is she'd rather not give it up.]

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[trenchknives]

You loved who?

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[dignity_misery]

[Clink clink clink, keys rolling in her fingers.]

Karl.

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[trenchknives]

Yeah? I guess I didn't know you loved anybody.

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[dignity_misery]

He was important.

[skintoskin]

Are you... I don't think I've seen you like...

[Words fail him. This is a side of Carla he hasn't seen.]

[dignity_misery]

I'm fine.

[Comparatively. She was worse when her roommate left.]

[skintoskin]

[He must have missed that one... ]

You don't look fine. Or sound fine.

[indecent_butterfly]

[Ne doesn't even question who Carla is talking about having received a couple of odd gifts nemself.]

It shall be much quieter.

[dignity_misery]

Too quiet.

[indecent_butterfly]

Would he have wanted us to mourn or celebrate his leaving do you wonder? He finally gets his death.

[manyadenouement]

I don't see why you should need to.

[dignity_misery]

He was the one who'd invited me.

[manyadenouement]

Yes and?

[synanthrope]

Surprise.

[dignity_misery]

I guess it was.

[Considering how much they had in common.]

[synanthrope]

He was irritating. But I'm told you can't control these things.

[bedsidemanners]

I never took you for a romantic. Maybe there's still some hope.

[dignity_misery]

You came to our wedding.

[She could pull out the necklace, if she was so inclined. She isn't.]

[bedsidemanners]

He was your husband?

[This is an unexpected novelty.]

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[brobeforehos]

Carla?

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[dignity_misery]

Don't sound so disappointed.

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[brobeforehos]

You're mistaking concern with disappointment.

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[virginwings]

Don't think threats will work on me. If you want him back, you're gonna have to make up for what you did... and prove it!

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[dignity_misery]

He was left to me to take care of.

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[virginwings]

... He wouldn't be with me if you did.

[Huff and puff. She shouldn't actually have said that, but she's caught up in the moment... and really just wants to protect Rex.]