040 VOICE LIST SIXTEEN
Nov. 1st, 2013 07:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deadliestviper[Coming out of her first death toll (first real death toll; those times on the Mirror Barge don’t count), Beatrix is in bad shape. Everything hurts and she’s moving much slower than normal, shivering from a cold that just won’t go away. But there are things to be said, news to be shared, and they won’t wait for her to feel better. When the audio clicks on it catches nothing but a breath of air, the sound of hair brushing fabric and skin. Then a throaty voice, hoarse, one straining to sound as normal as possible:]
I want to apologize for everything my other self did. [She pauses; she wishes she could say she’d never done it, but in a sense she hadn’t. She wishes she could say it sickens her to see what her other self is capable of, but all the crimes were those she’d committed before.
Maybe all she can say is that she’ll never do it again.]
I won’t ask anyone to trust me after that. But if any of the people I hurt need satisfaction, whether in the form of words or blood, they’ll have it.
Just make it quick, please. I have unfinished business at home.
Private Messages
[Cecil, Vin, and Bond, separately]
We need to talk. [Mostly about how you’d better not be like that normally.]
[Arya]
I am not happy with you.
[Anya and Ben]
Please know that in my right mind I’d never would do anything to hurt either of you. You don’t have to believe it, but I need to say it.
[Zack]
I… Thank you. Thank you so much. For everything.
And I’m so sorry for trying to kill you.
[Friends and Family]
I’m sorry, again, about what I was.
I don’t know why, but I just – graduated. [She sounds supremely confused about this. Yes, Mirror Barge taught her two lessons, that death is cruel but can also be merciful, that war isn’t always the way to go. They seem like such simple truths, but they’re difficult to realize.] I’m going home. If you’re up for it, I’d like to see you before I go.
I want to apologize for everything my other self did. [She pauses; she wishes she could say she’d never done it, but in a sense she hadn’t. She wishes she could say it sickens her to see what her other self is capable of, but all the crimes were those she’d committed before.
Maybe all she can say is that she’ll never do it again.]
I won’t ask anyone to trust me after that. But if any of the people I hurt need satisfaction, whether in the form of words or blood, they’ll have it.
Just make it quick, please. I have unfinished business at home.
Private Messages
[Cecil, Vin, and Bond, separately]
We need to talk. [Mostly about how you’d better not be like that normally.]
[Arya]
I am not happy with you.
[Anya and Ben]
Please know that in my right mind I’d never would do anything to hurt either of you. You don’t have to believe it, but I need to say it.
[Zack]
I… Thank you. Thank you so much. For everything.
And I’m so sorry for trying to kill you.
[Friends and Family]
I’m sorry, again, about what I was.
I don’t know why, but I just – graduated. [She sounds supremely confused about this. Yes, Mirror Barge taught her two lessons, that death is cruel but can also be merciful, that war isn’t always the way to go. They seem like such simple truths, but they’re difficult to realize.] I’m going home. If you’re up for it, I’d like to see you before I go.
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Date: 2013-11-05 10:16 pm (UTC)the ice is on my head. Charles tried to crack it open from the inside and out at the same time. It's still a bit sore. CES is doing a nice sunny afternoon on Praxibetel IV - the suns are a bit pink and the foliage is blue but other than that you could practically mistake it for Devon.
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Date: 2013-11-06 05:12 am (UTC)Arthas raised me from the dead with half my body frozen. Zack killed me. [And she bears him nothing but good will for it.] I could use some sun, pink or no.
[private/text]
Date: 2013-11-06 02:34 pm (UTC)Ugh though necromancy.
The first time you got her. You're very good; but she was cheating.
[private/text]
Date: 2013-11-06 02:54 pm (UTC)It hurt.
That first time she got a lot of people. She/I was looking for the Admiral.
[private/text]
Date: 2013-11-06 03:01 pm (UTC)Yes. Like I said, very good. There was the time with the aspirin in her vodka too. She had to do a lot of retconning to make you forget that.
[private/text]
Date: 2013-11-06 03:22 pm (UTC)That wasn't for Bianca. She was trying to finish off Bond. [Or maybe it was, and she just thought otherwise. She's got no idea.]
[private/text]
Date: 2013-11-06 04:07 pm (UTC)I'm sorrier everyone else had to. Or I'm trying to be <3 <3