four ➵ text

[versusnurture]

Who: Abigail & open!
Broadcast: Fleetwide!
Action: None unless, you know. You wanna. She's on the Iskaulit I guess.
When: Right meow!

have you ever killed anyone? if you have, are you proud of that?

[It's a thoughtful kind of day.]

Comments

[avaricious]

[This answer is a long time coming. Greed doesn't ever tell a lie, but he struggles when it comes to being honest with himself.]

he was my friend

the only one I had left

[versusnurture]

oh. that's really hard, i'm sorry. i didn't kill her, but i kind of got my only real friend killed once.

[avaricious]

kinda know how that feels. the rest of them died following me.

how'd it happen for her?

[versusnurture]

she was mounted on a rack of antlers.

[avaricious]

brutal. that's no way for a person to go out.

[versusnurture]

no. she wasn't a nice person, but the way girls aren't sometimes, you know? she didn't deserve it. i mean, no one does, i guess, but definitely not her.

[avaricious]

life is cheap. a single soul only goes so far. not many people know the quantity of that like I do.

what they deserve doesn't really figure into it.

[versusnurture]

no. people get what they stumble into or what they can steal, not what they deserve.

[avaricious]

you get over it yet?

[versusnurture]

i think it depends how you define getting over it.

[avaricious]

pleasant dreams?

[versusnurture]

most of the time. fewer ghosts for sure.

[avaricious]

looks like you've got that going for you.

so why bother asking?

[versusnurture]

for one thing, because i have bad days where i'm not so proud. for another thing, i like to know things about people.

[avaricious]

or are you just looking for a way to feel better about what you did?

[versusnurture]

not really. it's nice to know other people feel similar to how i feel, but it's not about solidarity, since i know nobody else has experienced exactly what i have.

[avaricious]

then what's it really about? and don't call it simple curiosity. there's always an angle.

[versusnurture]

[There is a pause here. Brief, but notable.]

everything boils down to survival in the end.

[avaricious]

I get you now.

just trying to sort out the killers from the rest.

smart.

[versusnurture]

i don't blame you. if i'm being honest, that's part of why i phrased it how i did, to see who'd be on the lookout. i don't do well with people who think in black and white, you know?

[avaricious]

neither do I. am I gray enough for you?