capeandcowl | twenty-five. video. backdated to late last night.

[The feed is filled with the sound of heavy breathing. Then choked laughter. Then the video snaps on.]

I'm so fucking bored today, City. What should I do?

[Something has snapped quite palpably in the man who was playing with shadow puppets only days before. The feed is focused on his face, on his manic eyes and disheveled hair. He's rocking on a chair that isn't meant to rock.]

I know. I know what I'll do. I'll kill someone!

[He stops rocking. Drums his fingers on the bottom of the seat.]

Maybe I'll blow up a hospital, show that off. Maybe I'll kidnap a bunch of other fucking imports, tie them to chairs, torture them, and broadcast their sorry, knife-ridden bodies to the network. Maybe I'll shoot a child in cold blood, you little bastard. [He affects, quite accurately, Ladd's accent.] Torture with spells. Slash throats. Decapitate. Trick people into solving madlibs and then beat them to death with sticks. Kidnap people weaker than me and cut into their heads ahah-ha--

[His breaths dissolve into something like the beginning of tears hitch hitch hitch and then spits into laughter instead. He drags his hands over his face. His voice is a frail whisper:]

Oh my God. You monsters.

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You don't have anything to apologize for.

Just breathe. They're trying to rile you up.

I don't care w-what they think right now.

I'm tired of waiting. I'm tired of accepting that these things happen.

I know. Believe me, I know. They come, they cause pain and destruction and suffering, and vanish into dust. And, and I know you're tired of it.

But... please, don't act from revenge.

Why shouldn't I?

It will destroy you.

I'll be destroyed anyway.

Will you?

I think it's likely. [He swallows.] T-These days I think it's very likely. But I can't sit around and just wait for that to happen. I can't. I won't.

I think it will only happen if you let it. By giving up on yourself.

Do what you can to make things right, but don't act out of revenge. Please.

twenty-five. video. backdated to late last night.

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