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[personal profile] deadlighter 2022-07-21 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
complicated.

she never really learned to hide her expressions, them being mostly entombed behind a mask, so her face is twisted into quizzical empathy. for all that text is distance, it's hard not to react.

safe now?
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[personal profile] deadlighter 2022-07-21 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
it takes her a moment to suss out what safe looks like for her. she's never really had much occasion to differentiate — she wasn't cooked up in granny helene's lab to be safe. clones are expected to fight and die so others don't have to, their experiences are preserved, their knowledge passed down.

she chews on her bottom lip.


for today.

it's really all she's got. the leviathans aren't her enemy anymore, that's all she knows. but if they aren't, others will be.
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[personal profile] deadlighter 2022-07-22 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
yeah.

life's life.

boring though, mine. comparatively.

any other stories?
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[personal profile] deadlighter 2022-07-22 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
boring's good.

means no one's getting shot.

ever get first?
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[personal profile] deadlighter 2022-07-22 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
like something out of a story.

very fantastical. a little bit of swashbuckling. she finds herself being wistful — not for the near-death experience, but for the whimsy of the world he paints with his words. she's hungry for anything that's not blood and death and war in a metal box you live in and perish on.

we used to race marbles. down hallways.

got pretty good.
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[personal profile] deadlighter 2022-07-25 08:53 pm (UTC)(link)
perhaps a bit smugly —

Cheat.