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[killedwithlove]

Who: Cole
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Pathstone unless asked to go somewhere
When: Now-ish?


[The broadcast is very unusual, coming from Cole. He replies, sometimes, but he very rarely initiates communication through the network.

The camera points at the ceiling, catching just the edge of Cole's hat. He has it in his lap but doesn't try to look into it.]

I need someone who is able to kill me if I turn into a demon. Cassandra promised to, but she's gone and Jove and Solas said they would, but with them gone, I need someone to make sure I'm not a danger to people.

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[killedwithlove]

A pair of socially inept young adults discussing something that one struggles to explain and the other has no context for...

It's going to be interesting.

I'll kill people. Lots of people. And probably be invisible. Or maybe make people kill themselves. Despair drags the heart to darkness.

I... I think I can be killed. It should banish me. I don't know if it would destroy me. Cassandra could do it. But Cassandra's gone. A mage should be able to tell us for sure. But Anders and Jove and Solas and Dorian are all gone too.

... maybe Riona would know.

[girlverine]

I know very little about magic.

But I have tracked invisible creatures before. And anything can be killed.

[She's had a lot of practice.]

[killedwithlove]

That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons, even death may die.

[He says it almost sing song, repeating something he's heard.]

Not me, you haven't. I'm a different sort of invisible. Not unseen. Unknown. Unknowable until unawares, death euphoria unwinds....

Yes. I can be killed. But I don't know what that means for me. Or me that is a demon.

[girlverine]

I don't know.

[She knows nothing about any of this.]

Do you have a smell?

[killedwithlove]

... Cadash said I smelt worse than a nug's den when we spent a week camping in the Fallow Mire.

[girlverine]

Then I can find you.

[Laura has all the confidence in this.]

[killedwithlove]

Okay.

[He wants to believe her. He's not sure he does. He doesn't know her.]

[girlverine]

If you become a danger, I can stop you.

[Again, confidence.]

But I would need to know what you think you would be doing as a demon.

[killedwithlove]

Killing people. Or making them kill themselves.

[girlverine]

But how?

[killedwithlove]

Knives and Despair.

[girlverine]

Neither of those things would stop me.

[Hmm.]

Is there a way to stop you like that without killing you?

[killedwithlove]

I don't know.

[girlverine]

If you are certain it is necessary.

...I will kill you.

[killedwithlove]

You will try. Yes.

Thank you.

[girlverine]

Mm.

[Oh right.]

What is your name?

[killedwithlove]

Oh. Cole. I'm Cole.

I don't like the communicators, I find it hard to see through them, or know anything. It's cold.

[girlverine]

They remind me of phones.

[A beat.]

My name is Laura.

[killedwithlove]

We don't have phones in Thedas, but I know about them from here.

Laura. I haven't known a Laura before.

[girlverine]

Do you have anything similar?

Mm. Laura is a common name on my world.

[killedwithlove]

Um, I don't think so. Some mages use communication spells?

[girlverine]

[Okay, wait, she's already learned about stuff like this. Worlds like this.]

You are from a 'low technology' world, yes?

[killedwithlove]

... I don't know.

You're not here, so I don't know what that means.

[girlverine]

Do you have electricity in...Thedas?

[killedwithlove]

Maybe. I don't know that word.