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whatwas[Ah, the monthly saga continues. The PCD switches on to reveal Horst, and a tray of food.]
Hello again, gentle viewers. I thought in light of this latest event, it was fitting to show you the proper care and feeding of a Johannes Cabal. The most important thing, especially when you lot are out wandering from dream to dream, is not to let him sleep too much.
Since he is always armed to the teeth with either magic or a very heavy gun, I suggest bringing him a peace offering. [He gestures at the food.]
Remember, never attempt this without supervision.
[He manages to balance the tray, carry the PCD, and go down to the basement lab without spilling a drop.]
Good morning, baby brother, and please do note it is not actually morning. Not that you would know since you haven't--
[The room is empty. All of Johannes's carefully gathered supplies, his clothes, his Gladstone bag, gone.
The tray of food is the first to clatter, and then the only sound just before the PCD is shut off is a disbelieving whimper.]
[Horst won't be answering anything on the PCD for a while. Feel free to find him offline but he, well, won't be anywhere near the church, he'll just be around the woods and on rooftops. Also if you happen to live at the church you would probably have heard noises from the basement. That was not in fact a pack of moose, just Horst. Destroyin' shit before he left. Like ya do.]
Hello again, gentle viewers. I thought in light of this latest event, it was fitting to show you the proper care and feeding of a Johannes Cabal. The most important thing, especially when you lot are out wandering from dream to dream, is not to let him sleep too much.
Since he is always armed to the teeth with either magic or a very heavy gun, I suggest bringing him a peace offering. [He gestures at the food.]
Remember, never attempt this without supervision.
[He manages to balance the tray, carry the PCD, and go down to the basement lab without spilling a drop.]
Good morning, baby brother, and please do note it is not actually morning. Not that you would know since you haven't--
[The room is empty. All of Johannes's carefully gathered supplies, his clothes, his Gladstone bag, gone.
The tray of food is the first to clatter, and then the only sound just before the PCD is shut off is a disbelieving whimper.]
[Horst won't be answering anything on the PCD for a while. Feel free to find him offline but he, well, won't be anywhere near the church, he'll just be around the woods and on rooftops. Also if you happen to live at the church you would probably have heard noises from the basement. That was not in fact a pack of moose, just Horst. Destroyin' shit before he left. Like ya do.]
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Date: 2011-03-09 01:56 am (UTC)[He noted that hesitation, and he looks at her with a small frown.]
Nothing to worry about. It's not like I could drag him out and kill him, even if I were that sort of vampire.
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Date: 2011-03-09 02:04 am (UTC)[And then, switching track.] It's not really going to get better.
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Date: 2011-03-09 02:08 am (UTC)What isn't?
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Date: 2011-03-09 02:17 am (UTC)The loneliness. It'll always be there until you see him again. [She's really cheering, isn't she?]
You may forget it sometimes though.
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Date: 2011-03-09 02:21 am (UTC)Is it that way with you?
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Date: 2011-03-09 02:32 am (UTC)Of course. You don't stop missing people you love, even if it's been so long you can't remember their faces.
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Date: 2011-03-09 02:38 am (UTC)[If he felt nothing for Johannes any longer--or his sister in law, or his parents, or friends--then everything they'd meant would cease to matter.]
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Date: 2011-03-09 02:43 am (UTC)Does immortality scare you?
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Date: 2011-03-09 02:48 am (UTC)If I'm going to live forever, then I'll deal with it. I just don't want to do it if it means losing my soul.
But on the other hand, I don't know if it's possible to be immortal and sane if you plan on keeping your humanity. Maybe there's only so long a person can live before they have to become inhuman.
--More than I am now.
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Date: 2011-03-09 03:04 am (UTC)Are you really losing your soul, or is it just changing?
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Date: 2011-03-09 03:33 am (UTC)[Offline]
Date: 2011-03-09 03:42 am (UTC)It's probably the power source, then. [Of the magic animating him.]
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Date: 2011-03-09 05:08 am (UTC)I spoke to Rei earlier. She half-suspects you of all this dream...nonsense. [He doesn't sound like he's accusing her or asking her to confirm or deny; he's not.] Are dreams really very useful?
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Date: 2011-03-09 05:17 am (UTC)I think she suspects me of making fire hot. [Rhode sounds a little bitter. She doesn't like not remembering why people hate her, she doesn't even get the benefit of having enjoyed causing the problems. And yet that statement isn't a confirmation or denial.]
Dreams are the heart of people. Even the things they won't acknowledge about themselves can't be lied about in dreams. [People are the most vulnerable, and sometimes most powerful, in their dreams.]
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Date: 2011-03-09 06:03 am (UTC)There's something soothing on an almost primal level, hearing her talk about dreams, about the substance of them.]
You make me wish I could dream outside of an event week. Still...have you ever been disappointed to get into a dream? To see what someone was really like?
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Date: 2011-03-09 06:12 am (UTC)[She blinks at the question, surprised.] Why would I be?
[She doesn't expect anything of people. She hates people because in her experience they are weak willed, self absorbed, selfish, cruel, petty, greedy, short-sighted... She intimately knows all the failings of humanity, and so despises people out of hand. There's nothing to disappoint, when the expectations are as low as hers.]
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Date: 2011-03-09 07:08 am (UTC)[He's disappointed with her answer, but not surprised. He's not even sure he was really hoping to hear anything different, except maybe further explanation.]
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Date: 2011-03-09 07:19 am (UTC)[He could always ask for more. For why.]
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Date: 2011-03-09 05:56 pm (UTC)Why would you...?
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Date: 2011-03-09 10:56 pm (UTC)[She lets the ominous phrase hang for a moment.] I'd want candy and cake and you have to help me dress Tyki up!
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Date: 2011-03-09 11:01 pm (UTC)[It's easier to pretend everything okay with Tyki when it really isn't at all.]
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Date: 2011-03-09 11:04 pm (UTC)He did look quite dashing with make up on, I must say. If I were the least bit more gay I would have tried to take him home.
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