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[Diva...]

So happy I could help.

[Sarcasm might not carry across text.]

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_{[It doesn't.]}

me too!
ill let you know if it works
how have you been now that elias is gone

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Fine.

[He hasn't been fine.]

I fed on people I shouldn't have before he stopped me.
I'm trying to make it up to them.

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you mustve been hungry
you should make them apology tarts

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How hungry I was is irrelevant.
I'm going to be haunting their nightmares for the rest of their lives.
Tarts are completely insufficient.

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what do you mean by haunting

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I mean I walk the dreams of my victims.
People who tell me their stories in-person are collected into a nightmare stable of sorts for the Beholding to watch.
I don't dream when I'm asleep, Diva.
I just pass through other people's nightmares to see them suffering.

1/2

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that sounds uncomfortable
um

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thanks for not...doing that to me
i mean you were going to
because i was going to eat you
but
still

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I try not to.
But it keeps happening here.
I'm always so hungry.
The written Statements are like eating nothing but rice cake.
And then this bloody city does everything it can to test my control, of course.
That seems like a brilliant idea.
LIEs is full of sadists.

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_{[Diva may not like Jon for numerous reasons but she can at least empathize over how it feels to be starved and hungry.]}

have you ever tried eating them
the guards or other people in charge

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Have you ever been hit by one of the guns that depowers you?

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no...
but when we were trapped in fort harmony they made me...
not human
but weak
it was awful

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I can't exist without the Eye.
Anytime they hit me with those things and sever or diminish my connection, I pass out.
It's disorienting and uncomfortable.
I stopped trying to compel certain people.
And even then, my powers don't work on all of them.

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what about animals
there are a lot of pigeons around

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[...]

What are you talking about?
I'm not actually eating people.
I feed on their fear.
Supernatural trauma.

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animals have fears too

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[She's not wrong. Still, Jon can't help facepalming.]

I don't speak pigeon, Diva.
And animals fall more in the domain of the Hunt and the Flesh than they do the Eye.

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okay but what if you could get someone to write down things animals say...would that still not work

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[And we come full circle.]

I have written Statements.
It's in-person, verbal Statements that I want.

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what if someone translates
i can talk to bats

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I am not traumatizing an innocent animal, Diva.
What's wrong with you?

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people eat animals all the time
anyway it was just an idea
i thought it was a good idea

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Killing an animal and eating it is completely different from re-traumatizing it nightly.
Imagine being a cat and not understanding why you're scared out of your mind every time you try to fall asleep.
At least a human could, conceivably, understand what's going on.

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i guess that makes sense
what if you got someone who could talk to chickens
then you could kill it and eat it after for dinner
or does it not work if theyre dead