"I wonder why. It's almost like he knows what you did."
Another sip, slow and measured. The wine was good. But that was enough of that. London was beyond them, as was Galahad and Tesla and Devi.
She lowers her hand, settling it across her. "It is strange that you think I should care very much what happens to me, after all, you already took the things I care for most in my life - you think I care here now especially?" She gestures out, over the window that sends the world spinning past them. "Even if they did punish me for it, I could take my own life before they found out - and I would be glad to do so. After all, everyone I care for is already dead, no thanks to you." Another mouthful, deep, humming around the thought.
"No, the real problem I have found since I have arrived, is that what they call LIARs apparently, do not die. They have no blackwater, it seems, yet a way to bring people back from the dead. So we would be left at a rather different stalemate."
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Another sip, slow and measured. The wine was good. But that was enough of that. London was beyond them, as was Galahad and Tesla and Devi.
She lowers her hand, settling it across her. "It is strange that you think I should care very much what happens to me, after all, you already took the things I care for most in my life - you think I care here now especially?" She gestures out, over the window that sends the world spinning past them. "Even if they did punish me for it, I could take my own life before they found out - and I would be glad to do so. After all, everyone I care for is already dead, no thanks to you." Another mouthful, deep, humming around the thought.
"No, the real problem I have found since I have arrived, is that what they call LIARs apparently, do not die. They have no blackwater, it seems, yet a way to bring people back from the dead. So we would be left at a rather different stalemate."