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eachdraidh2014-08-01 11:49 pm
vrykolakas) wrote in eachdraidh2014-08-01 11:49 pm
i. video. both courts. the night of the feast.
[Two hours after nightfall.
Click. The video’s on but the picture’s fuzzy black. Muffled:]
—the—hell's piss and fuck—is that—?
[Nice. The picture changes, but only to lighten to grey and then offer tumbling fragments of senseless colour. The locket has been plucked from wherever it lay; a pocket, or face-down somewhere. The transmission ends.
Three minutes later, the video returns, this time with actual footage. The camera lens captures tumbling dark hair and a the lower half of a pale, fine-boned face; a young man, apparently, but when he speaks his voice is as creaky as a dying man’s whisper.]
—see, but can it catch my image?
[Grin. Apparently that’s a joke. He moves the locket so that his whole face comes into view. With pleasure:]
Yes. Would you look at that. The myth-peddlers embarrass themselves again.
My good will to... [A long, thoughtful sigh. Hiss? He visibly gives up on niceties.] Fuck it. Tell me, what is there to do in Mair besides avoid or perpetrate mugging?
Click. The video’s on but the picture’s fuzzy black. Muffled:]
—the—hell's piss and fuck—is that—?
[Nice. The picture changes, but only to lighten to grey and then offer tumbling fragments of senseless colour. The locket has been plucked from wherever it lay; a pocket, or face-down somewhere. The transmission ends.
Three minutes later, the video returns, this time with actual footage. The camera lens captures tumbling dark hair and a the lower half of a pale, fine-boned face; a young man, apparently, but when he speaks his voice is as creaky as a dying man’s whisper.]
—see, but can it catch my image?
[Grin. Apparently that’s a joke. He moves the locket so that his whole face comes into view. With pleasure:]
Yes. Would you look at that. The myth-peddlers embarrass themselves again.
My good will to... [A long, thoughtful sigh. Hiss? He visibly gives up on niceties.] Fuck it. Tell me, what is there to do in Mair besides avoid or perpetrate mugging?
video.
video.
In what sense?
video.
video.
You mean literally expired, don't you?
video.
video.
video.
video.
So here you've been given a new lease of life. I'm glad for you.
video.