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[sunburnthair.livejournal.com]

[Draco comes on screen and he's remarkably paler than usual, wide eyed, looks like he's probably puked a little in his mouth. He's terrified, is what I'm saying. He says in a really small, quavering voice:]

Help. Uh...I don't know how to reach the pole-ice and--And--

Some-someone's dead.




[He's found Bellatrix dead, but he's wary enough not to say publicly just who...]

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[sunburnthair.livejournal.com]

[He sighs and scrubs at his face. As it sinks in it really starts to get to him more. He had thought it would be safer here.]

Saying it isn't the hard part.

[deadthenred]

Sometimes it is. Everyone reacts different.

[sunburnthair.livejournal.com]

I suppose so. I don't know many that's seen what I have, so I wouldn't know.

[deadthenred]

I've seen it enough to say: everyone reacts different.

[sunburnthair.livejournal.com]

I-I suppose. Depends on the person who's dead as well, I should think.

[Morbid talk to help distract from the morbid sight.]

[deadthenred]

Or what's been done to the body, yeah.

[sunburnthair.livejournal.com]

[What he saw sure wasn't pretty.]

Are brutal murders common here then? If I'm not . . .not mistake, I won't be the first one lately make this sort of call.

[deadthenred]

It's not common, but it ain't unusual. But yeah, someone's going around, it looks like.

[sunburnthair.livejournal.com]

Great, a city full of super powered people and barbaric murders still take place.

[deadthenred]

That's what happens when you give murderers powers.

We're s'posed to be heroes, but the thing's got no sort of screening process.

[sunburnthair.livejournal.com]

I gathered that when it brought me here. Is the bloody thing broken or something?

[deadthenred]

Nah, I figure it's just lying about why it brought us here.

[sunburnthair.livejournal.com]

[Pause. He hadn't thought of that. It tickles his paranoia quite a bit.] Oh?

[deadthenred]

I figure something smart enough to pluck people and switch 'em around so that they got powers is smart enough to pluck the people it wants.

But people've called me paranoid.

[sunburnthair.livejournal.com]

It does sound right paranoid.

But maybe not too unfounded. What do you think its goals could be? It's just a machine.

[deadthenred]

It's just a machine, but someone probably had to make it.

Maybe it just wants to muck things up for the sake of mucking 'em up.

[sunburnthair.livejournal.com]

Less insidious, but baffling. Though if I were a muggle machine I'm not sure what else I would have to do, either.

[deadthenred]

Maybe it can just see straight on into the good in all of us.

[This is sarcasm.]

[sunburnthair.livejournal.com]

Hm. I wonder if machines are capable of feeling disappointment then.

[deadthenred]

They are. [He has robot friends!!]

But I dunno about that one.