531 Monstrosity & Morality: Dividing Lines of the Self and Other, Section 4

[idolpro]

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Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[scattershot]

That's all I've ever wanted, too.

[It is difficult.

[She's starting to fear it might be beyond her.]

But my hands are small.

Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[libraryofbabel]

"And... there are so many people who don't understand."

Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[scattershot]

I can't promise that I will. But I'll do my very best to try.

Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[libraryofbabel]

"Ah, well—I think you will, since you've been kind. It's just that—I lost my family a long time ago, you know. It's been nearly a century."

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[scattershot]

A century...?

[She doesn't look all that much older than I do.]

Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[scattershot]

I'm sorry. You still look so young. But...

I don't think I'll ever stop missing Grandfather. I don't think I'll ever feel easy about his fate. Knowing what it is that befell him--

[She breaks off.]

It's cruel. It will be cruel a hundred years hence. I simply won't be able to feel the sting of it, any more.

Re: THERE'S A WOMAN HERE NOW

[libraryofbabel]

"Ah, that is... I'm a vampire, so I stopped aging at the moment I died..."

She shakes her head. "I'm sorry for your loss. I don't know what happened, but it's clear he was dear to you, and that... what happened was an injustice. There's so much cruelty in the world—in any world."