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Hannibal Lecter ([personal profile] youwill) wrote2014-02-21 12:39 pm

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Excuse me.

[The man on screen is dapper as fuck, a faint crease in his brow marking his confusion. The suit he wears is a touch dated, plainer than most of the plaid numbers he usually prefers: this is a plain, grey, though considerably well tailored number that looks like it would be better suited to the last century.

Or to a particular breach in Oxford. If you look closely, there is a black nose peeking out over his shoulder, from under the collar of his jacket. It's fitted very particularly, so that Boudica can hide there unnoticed. It helps that the mink is not overly large.]


Ask now, [she whispers into his ear. Hannibal glances toward his shoulder, then back to the camera.]

This will sound very strange, I am certain. Please bear with me; I only wish to understand the state of things.

[Unseen, Boudica digs her claws into his back in her impatience; Hannibal makes no outward reaction.]

Where are your daemons?
unmakeme: (we're fucked)

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[personal profile] unmakeme 2014-02-21 07:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Unaffected Natasha, sitting on her couch and staring with confusion at the screen in her hand.]

What is that?
unmakeme: (really now)

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[personal profile] unmakeme 2014-02-21 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Her eyebrow begins a slow migratory pattern toward her hairline.]

No. I was speaking more literally, though. 'Why do you have a talking mink down the back of your shirt?' literal.

[Because now she can see clearly that it is a mink.]
unmakeme: (pic#4938770)

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[personal profile] unmakeme 2014-02-21 08:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Unfortunately, Natasha is the wrong person to try and unsettle. Even if she understood the context, she's made of sterner stuff. She also doesn't miss the note of condescension, though it doesn't appear to bother her.]

Except for when she doesn't.
unmakeme: (blank slate)

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[personal profile] unmakeme 2014-02-21 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It takes a whole lot more than this to make me mind.

[The wording is deliberately left open to interpretation.]
unmakeme: (i'll persuade you)

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[personal profile] unmakeme 2014-02-21 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't have one. You?

[Bright and flippant, like they're discussing the weather.]
unmakeme: (do i look amused?)

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[personal profile] unmakeme 2014-02-21 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't believe in the concept.

[Which is not the whole truth, but she's hardly going to share her innermost thoughts with a total stranger.]

I think that when you die, that's the end. There's no afterlife, no continuation, nothing that lives on. Even if there was such a thing, even if I believed that there were people out there with souls, I know I'm not one of them. Some people are born colourblind...

[Besides, if she believes in Heaven and Hell, there is no doubt where she's headed, and she doesn't want to think about that.]
routemistress: (Blue Butterfly)

[personal profile] routemistress 2014-02-21 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Well now, there's a blast from the past. We're from alternate realities, chuck. My Hilary's on the inside of me in this one. 'E's still 'ere, though.
strangehistorian: (the clever)

[personal profile] strangehistorian 2014-02-21 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Sir, you are presently residing in a parallel universe. Please pardon the inconvenience, we should have you returned within a few days.
unmakeme: (pic#5228402)

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[personal profile] unmakeme 2014-02-21 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
You and I clearly have very different opinions on the matter.

You'll forgive me if I don't take my spiritual ans philosophical advice from a man who talks to a mink he keeps under his collar.
unmakeme: (pic#4979824)

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[personal profile] unmakeme 2014-02-21 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, there you have it.

[She sweeps her own hand toward herself, like she's trying to bring a scent closer to her nose.]

No mink, no soul.

What I'm wondering is why does your soul feel the need to hide?
routemistress: (Blue Butterfly)

[personal profile] routemistress 2014-02-21 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
'E's got a form. 'E's still a butterfly.

[One of the carrion-eating varieties, but she doesn't feel the need to share that. She nods politely to the mink.]

Not out loud. Not in this life. In your world I were a witch. We flew down from the North together, settled in Oxford.
strangehistorian: (the clever)

[personal profile] strangehistorian 2014-02-21 11:14 pm (UTC)(link)
This is a ship called the Barge, and presently daemons are internal. Which is to say that one's soul does not take animal form.
hearrrtofgold: (wwwwwait a minute)

[personal profile] hearrrtofgold 2014-02-21 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
As far as I've heard, we don't have any.
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[personal profile] fire_punk 2014-02-21 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
[Kevin sees the message when he presses some buttons on his communicator experimentally. It surprises him to say the least. And the question about daemons can't mean anything good. Did the Gobblers get him again? But he's older than they look for. Nanamo settled years ago.]

She's busy. Did the Gobblers cut their daemons away?

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