deadliestviper | 001 VIDEO LIST ONE

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001 VIDEO LIST ONE

[The screen switches on, revealing a face caked in dirt, covered in dust, streaked with sweat, and smeared with blood. A pair of troubled, if clear, blue eyes look out from it, and then there's a shake of the head, followed by a swirl of long, messy blonde hair – underneath all the grime, the new arrival's a female. She gives a bright smile, the sight slightly disarming on such a gritty face.]

Hi. [Her voice cracks when she speaks and she coughs, then clears her throat.]

Sorry to bother you folks, but it appears I've got some new business to attend to and I'm a little out of sorts. [Her smile turns apologetic, a little self-deprecating. It might be cute if she didn't look like an adult female approximation of Peanuts' Pigpen.] If one of you would be so kind as to point me toward the showers, I'd be in your debt.

[One last thing: her voice lowers, the sparkle gone from her eyes.] Budd... If you're here, I'll find you.

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Really, you get breaches from outside worlds and you don't get pirates or anything? Please.

Not like the ones that hijack or anything. We had 'em once, but everybody was one, more or less.

[She can't help it; whether it's the absurdity of the possibility or just the idea of Richie with an eyepatch and parrot, she laughs.] What?

[Nah, he was just a cabin boy with a thing for stabbing people. No real piracy for him.]

What's not to get? Everybody was a pirate. ...Most people were, anyway. There were mermaids and shit too, but. Mostly pirates.

[A scowl.]

What's so fucking funny?

C'mon, you can't tell me you ever thought about the afterlife while saying "I bet I'll end up on a spaceship transforming into a pirate. ...With mermaids."

Well...no.

I didn't really think about what came after before I got here.

Never? [B finds that hard to believe, a killer not considering what happened after death. Did it frighten him? Or did he just see it as a means to an end?]

It's death. What does it fucking matter anyway, you're dead.

[Another thing he doesn't quite believe; he thinks about it plenty, just...not when he's awake.]

Surely you've heard that old saw about ends being new beginnings. [Christ, she sounds like she's about to start proselytizing.] I thought everyone wondered from time to time.