don't wait for a knight in shinin' armor, your savior's reflected in the mirror

[perpend]

[That sure was a fucking thing. That execution was a fucking thing. Those secrets are a fucking thing.

Cabanela retreats to his room, but not for all that long. Everyone will get a note eventually, written in very neat handwriting

I do not plan on bowing down to threats and intimidation. If you did not act, it means you were, like me, aware of the risk, but decided against it. Your reasons are entirely your own.

Join me in the dining room if you agree enough is enough, and that you won't acquiesce to threats. I don't plan to let this stop me, and neither should you.

-C

In the dining room itself, Cabanela has set up coffee and tea for those who want it-- there's no food, because to be honest, he doesn't know how to cook. Two more candles have been lit-- he wasn't really sure what to do about the whole... parasite thing... so Fern's candle will have to make due.]

Comments

[chessturner]

[That gets Kyrie's guard up]

I suppose so. It doesn't matter now, anyway. What's done is done, and who knows...maybe nothing will change and we all will treat each other as if nothing happened.

[matchbreaker]

Oh that is impossible too.

[ She laughs at this, tapping the wall as she does, first to Hibiki's, actually ]

Everyone would be cold not to think of her as pitiable. Or the Priest. [ Kirei's ] That will inform everyone's opinion of him from here. Oh sure, some will be less overt, and we need to work together to some extent, so not everyone is going to shun the more insane here. [ Archer's, Rideaux's ] But in the back of your mind, can you tell me you won't think about how your life's something I feed on?

[chessturner]

If you keep mentioning it like that of course everyone will keep thinking about it in those terms.

[Just saying]

But you're right. So what? It's not like we'll all see each other again once this is over. In the end, this won't matter too much.

[matchbreaker]

What other terms are there?

[ One thing at a time, apparently. She puts a hand on her hips. ]

[chessturner]

I don't know. It's just that you're describing you as some sort of bloodsucking parasite. It's kind of self-deprecating you'd imply that.

[Kyrie prudently doesn't say that by definition vampires really are bloodsucking parasites because saying that would be really rude]

[matchbreaker]

[ Excuse her? She puts a hand on her hip, looking imperiously up at Kyrie ]

Blood is life. That's true both of vampires and humans. That's what keeps you alive, holds every little part of you. And for us, it's what our bodies need, crave, demand. Is a tiger a parasite to eat a deer? No, it just means that we're a predator. One that feeds off your lives.