[Andrej sounds utterly miserable, and very unfortunately sober.]
Good greeting, Miss Romanoff, though I am hardly able to find those words truthful at all. For some time ago, we had exchanged thoughts on the matter of our host's truest intentions. I fear you may have been correct, that our failures are his expectation, if not planned from the outset.
Have you to the staff demons looked further? For such things that might make one thing they were once only the damned?
[He might, you know, now have some worries about that sort of thing...]
Not information so much as. Personal observations. [His voice is hesitant, not quite sure how to put it... and perhaps a bit horrified by this development as well.]
I am hesitant to put words to it, truly. In physical appearance, it is not so bad that most will notice, I shouldn't think. And yet. As much as it is deserved to pay penance for my misdeeds, I cannot bear the thought that I might have exchanged some surfeit of suffering for falling further from the sight of the Holy Mother.
[Overwrought? Maybe, depending on your point of view, but the despair in his voice is clear.]
Horns. It is that I horns have developed. Vainly I had thought it a bump of some sort when captured at first, but it is clearly now nothing of the sort. Saints and sinners, what am I to do?
That's a little extreme. And not the conclusion I was considering.
[They're all damned here, aren't they. The fact some of them are a little ahead or behind the curve when they're still in the fact gathering phase doesn't mean a whole lot.
Though it does imply a thing or two about Andrej's conduct.]
It's more distinct, but I've seen enough to speculate this might happen to people who don't participate in the redemption exercises.
[He says with a sort of subdued trepidation. He'd participated, even though unpleasant, on more than one occasion. But it was with the nightmares arisen, that things had gotten out of control... ]
Forgive me for I am not thinking especially clearly at this exact moment. What conclusion is it, you are considering?
[She can't really blame him for not following. Natasha is used to people who fall in step with her thought, playing chess nine moves ahead.
But that's the kind of thing that only turns out well if you're actually as smart as you think you are. Natasha has reason to doubt that's her these days...]
Yes. Yes, I have no reason to doubt it. Only to confront our host and hope that somehow there is something to be done still. You have considered such things, have you a thought to what I should ask, given the situation at hand? Even unknowing of what end he has, to further details obtain?
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Good greeting, Miss Romanoff, though I am hardly able to find those words truthful at all. For some time ago, we had exchanged thoughts on the matter of our host's truest intentions. I fear you may have been correct, that our failures are his expectation, if not planned from the outset.
Have you to the staff demons looked further? For such things that might make one thing they were once only the damned?
[He might, you know, now have some worries about that sort of thing...]
voice it is
I don't take social niceties too seriously. Don't worry about it.
[She has questions.]
The investigation got backburnered with everything that's been going on lately. You've come up with some new information?
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[Because it conjures particular possibilities.]
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[Overwrought? Maybe, depending on your point of view, but the despair in his voice is clear.]
You have heard nothing of the sort from others?
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I think I'm going to need a few more details before I can say for sure. What kind of physical changes are we talked about?
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That is a lot more distinct than anything I've observed.
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I am damned twice over now, then, with no hope in sight of redemption. Nor to ever see those I had thought to join once more in their passing.
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[They're all damned here, aren't they. The fact some of them are a little ahead or behind the curve when they're still in the fact gathering phase doesn't mean a whole lot.
Though it does imply a thing or two about Andrej's conduct.]
It's more distinct, but I've seen enough to speculate this might happen to people who don't participate in the redemption exercises.
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[He says with a sort of subdued trepidation. He'd participated, even though unpleasant, on more than one occasion. But it was with the nightmares arisen, that things had gotten out of control... ]
Forgive me for I am not thinking especially clearly at this exact moment. What conclusion is it, you are considering?
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But that's the kind of thing that only turns out well if you're actually as smart as you think you are. Natasha has reason to doubt that's her these days...]
That the demons here used to be the damned.
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[At least, she assumes they're playing by ear. She hasn't heard of anyone with deeper insight.]
I've tried talking to Lucifer, but it's a slow go. He'd say to stay the course. Repent and all that.