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If we're through with being anonymous... then so be it. I'm still willing to take you up on your offer. Was there something else you wanted to discuss in relation to it?

[Jesus, it's the man Mitsuhide slaughtered over the network. Katurian stares at the screen for a long time, his shadowy fingers suspended over the keyboard. He inhales before responding.]

You said there was an outcome you were hoping for. An "ultimate outcome."

What is it?

There's always some chance we don't return. We have no other way to willingly escape this place. So maybe

[Maybe he'll finally have a way out. Maybe. He figures he'll forget all the awful experiences he's had here, if he returns home. Or even if he's just plain dead for real. He knows it's a weird risk to take, but there's actually something else he's been wondering about.]

I'm not even sure if I can be killed so easily, either. Not the way I am. I also want to test the limits of this new form.

I can't

I don't

I

I already have one. A volunteer, I mean. So I won't be needing to your assistance.

But maybe if you'd like to get together sometime, you know, get together and have drinks or something, we can do that. I could buy. I'd be glad to buy. And when we meet, maybe we can talk a little more about this, you know, just about life and death and all that, and maybe revaluate some things. Or not. You know?

[A significant pause.]

My name is Katurian, by the way.

And the next time you get hungry?

[He didn't... come here to talk, but that's ok. He'll just... find some other way, a better one. Alone. So forgive him for shutting down a bunch, but that's what he's gonna do right now.]

We'll see. There is no revaluation needed at this time, however, so I don't think it necessary.

I'm Kain.

Hello, Kain. It's nice to meet you. :-)

I'm sorry I

I'm not very good at speaking with people. Even in the best circumstances, I'm not good at speaking with people. And this isn't the best circumstance, is it? But you're right. I don't know what I'm going to do the next time I get hungry. I was hoping, you know, that I'd find someone who deserved it or

[Beat. He closes his eyes.]

or someone who wanted it.

[‘I deserve it’, he almost says, but holds back that part, knowing how that sort of thing tends to go. He doesn’t want to argue, or have anyone trying to convince him otherwise.]

Then allow me, I’m willing.

I wouldn’t mind meeting sometime as you suggest, as long as it’s not with the intention to convince me otherwise. My mind is made up.

[It’s either try something, anything, or be stuck here, as this decaying, falling-apart zombie-thing. Be stuck here with these dreams of memories that haunt him. He knows what he wants.]

I won't. I won't try to convince you otherwise.

When would you like to meet?

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I appreciate that. I really do.

Anyway… I would be able to meet at any time, in the next couple of days. Are you nocturnal? I… used to be, so I still tend to prefer night. But I can adjust to any time of the day as needed.

I'm

mostly nocturnal. Mostly. I won't be able to go out in the daylight once my transformation is complete, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to get a head start. You know? Anyway, I can meet whenever, too.

How about the day after tomorrow?

Then in that case, we can stick to the night. I've gotten so used to it, that it's hard to switch to daylight.

The day after tomorrow would work fine with me.

[So, after this...]

I don't actually know what to say.
Sorry.
I just
I remember all the terrible things you heard me say and I can't bear the thought.

Great. Ha ha. There's a bar at 5th and Willow. I like it because it's quiet, but not too quiet, you know?

And my offer for buying the drinks still stands. I can't drink any liquid right now anyway, so I might as well spend the money somehow, right?

You know, if it's

If it's easier for you, we can just pretend you didn't say anything. If you'd like. Or we can just pretend that I didn't even see you in the first place.

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I don't think that's a good way for me to deal with what I've done.
Sorry.

Alright.

Have you found his family?

[Ha. Ahahahahaha.

That hadn't even occurred to him.]

oh God

[yeeeeuuuuuurghhhh]

Well, that might be a good place to start. He's probably

quite decomposed at this point, especially if you left him in the lake, which I don't know, maybe you took him elsewhere, but he might have a wallet still, or maybe they can do things with dental records or something like that. I mean, I don't know if they have that technology here, but they probably do, right? I mean, they've got dentists. How hard can it be?

That sounds like it would be ideal.

My thanks in advance. At the moment, it seems I can still drink and eat things, which is... something of a relief.

[It doesn't seem to really give him any sustenance or energy, but his body being kind of dead probably has something to do with that. Still, he likes behaving as normal as he possibly can.]

[It takes an hour or so until Marco says anything else. Guess what he's been up to.]

Someone else took his wallet.
I'm assuming.
His body isn't here anymore.

Oh.

Well.

That's that.

Did anybody manage to force that "cure" on you?
I hope not.

No. I didn't leave my house. I was afraid of what I'd become.

Is that what happened to you?

It is. I never meant to take it.

I

I have a question I'd like to ask you. You don't need to answer it if you don't want to. I want you to know that.

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