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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, CCC-REDHORSE. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 134.64.202.69 *** CCC-REDHORSE has joined 134.64.202.69 <CCC-REDHORSE> This is Reira Akaba! <CCC-REDHORSE>I'll try to answer you but sometimes I'm busy or sleeping, so I don't think about the message right away.

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<CCC-REDHORSE>

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[She nearly shouts YES. Nearly. They looked for patterns. They made sure. They...

She can't say that. If she does he'll know how they got to him. Instead she takes a deep and shuddering breath to carefully answer.] ....That isn't how it should have happened.

...I'm not sorry for you though. I wish it was shorter, like it should have been...but I'm not sorry.

It was supposed to be Once, and Never Again, and it still is.

<saturnschild>

[marcato]

Monster.

You're a monster.

<CCC-REDHORSE>

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So are you.

[The word loses its effect when she's used to using it to refer to a People rather than a horrible thing.]

<saturnschild>

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No, Reira. I'm not talking about Her marvelous creations. You're a vicious, grotesque abomination in the shape of a child. You are an abomination.

How long did it take you to die after I shot you? Thirty seconds? A minute? And you respond by slowly torturing me to the death for three weeks.

And you're not even sorry.

<CCC-REDHORSE>

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My pain was longer than being dead. It was after. And then on top of that, you kept talking and talking as though everything you did was for the best.

And even as if you would have tried something else, other than killing me. Amanda knew she wanted to do it. She said so too. You're the one who wouldn't.

It wasn't supposed to be three weeks, but it's done. I won't hurt you ever again, unless you hurt me, or my friends first.

So I could Never be sorry, not for you.

<saturnschild>

[marcato]

Do you remember what I told you, Reira? Before you condemned me to a slow demise?

We're not even.

I will make my correction in due time.

Re: <saturnschild>

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If you try, and I bleed, you deserve what comes next.

Next time I will make it quick though. Three weeks was longer than it was supposed to be after all.

But I learned from last time too. Don't think you can play pretend this time.