[ not because he cares, because he's trying to keep an accurate headcount of the people who are remotely useful around these hellish parts. (lies, it's absolutely because he cares, but he's not about to admit it.) ]
[Natasha returns the call promptly. She'd been trying to come up with a way to address their food shortages, but honestly, she's not really any help on that side of things, anymore than she is at stopping the rain of fire.]
For the time being.
[Has her voice gotten a little rough? Maybe just a little.
[ he says that with more relief in his voice than he intends to. after helen perished, he told himself that the only person he would tolerate being remotely attached to was henry and the offspring his shewolf girlfriend had been due to give birth to. no one else. and yetβ ]
Let's just say that I'm one of the few people here who doesn't have to worry about going hungry. [ yes, he drank the bloody kool-aid. it was better option than having to break down and feed from someone. ]
[ he very much doesn't like it, but he'd sucked up his pride and holier than thou attitude and fed. it had tasted good, too good. good in a way he hadn't ever known blood to taste before. good in a way that makes him want more. ]
Looks like we're living through Exodus two-point-oh, directed by Quentin Tarantino.
Oh, I'm sure my father came up with enough ideas on how to punish sinners en masse during his sermons.
[ but even with his picture perfect memory, he can't recall any of them. because he was too busy spacing out and daydreaming of other things during service to pay much attention to them. ]
He's likely already given the supposedly almighty the CliffsNotes by now.
[ it doesn't seem like it would be to him, but then again, he's the one who grew up in a small town in the middle of the hapburg miliary frontier where most professions were tethered to the church in one way or another. ]
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[ not because he cares, because he's trying to keep an accurate headcount of the people who are remotely useful around these hellish parts. (lies, it's absolutely because he cares, but he's not about to admit it.) ]
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For the time being.
[Has her voice gotten a little rough? Maybe just a little.
Not enough to keep her from working.]
How about you?
[Fire isn't the only thing falling from the sky.]
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[ he says that with more relief in his voice than he intends to. after helen perished, he told himself that the only person he would tolerate being remotely attached to was henry and the offspring his shewolf girlfriend had been due to give birth to. no one else. and yetβ ]
Let's just say that I'm one of the few people here who doesn't have to worry about going hungry. [ yes, he drank the bloody kool-aid. it was better option than having to break down and feed from someone. ]
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She has an idea how he must feel about that, though. Not the entirety of it, but she's seen how he feels about losing control, acting on his hunger.]
I'm sure I'd feel the same way if it were raining ranch dressing and cocaine.
[It's kind of a bad joke, or her delivery could be better, but they're all doing their best here.]
They really decided to pull out all the stops this time, didn't they?
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Looks like we're living through Exodus two-point-oh, directed by Quentin Tarantino.
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[Even plagues can't protect God from a little shade.
He's earned it.
Natasha is feeling petty.]
Though I suppose I shouldn't give him ideas.
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[ but even with his picture perfect memory, he can't recall any of them. because he was too busy spacing out and daydreaming of other things during service to pay much attention to them. ]
He's likely already given the supposedly almighty the CliffsNotes by now.
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[You'll have to forgive her if she figured that was part of a cover or something like that.
It's a little hard picturing religious vampires.
And it's a distraction from everything going on.]
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[ it doesn't seem like it would be to him, but then again, he's the one who grew up in a small town in the middle of the hapburg miliary frontier where most professions were tethered to the church in one way or another. ]
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[But it's a very different era, if nothing else.]
Could be the communism.
[She says that last part very wryly; that's not true, but it's a much shorter answer than her actual story.]
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[ which is important to note. the world has changed, he's just old af. ]
At least you missed out on having that held against you. I got docked for being a heretic.
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[Just slightly. Natasha huffs, her breath a little raspy.]
Somehow, I feel like you wouldn't mind that reputation a little. An iconoclast.
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[ he says it in a way, however that implies heavily that she's right. nikola doesn't mind in the least. ]
...was that a rasp I heard?
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[She will try to play that off very blandly. Nothing to worry about.]
It'll be fine. All things considered, it's not hard to be under the weather.
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[ it's not always about him being a bitter pessimist in his 100s. ]
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