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>TIMES ARE HARD. OUR BELTS ARE TIGHTENED. THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT.
The living make better use of the dead.
It's a deplorable practice, but it has to be done.
The struggle continues.
The softly breathing thing in the darkness nods slowly, almost approving.
"Good. Because nothing is wasted then. Everything can be recovered. From the last drop to the finish, to the very fibers of our muscles."
"Born. Undone. Born. Undone. Born again."
"Life finds a way, always."
You hear a strange rhythmic clicking noise coming from below that eternally smiling face.
>OREGANO?
"Huh?"
Huh?
"Huh... Oregano."
"Oh-re-gah-no."
>WHY DID YOU RESCUE ME? WHY NOT ANYONE ELSE?
It clasps its claws together, those terrible flesh-tearing things, in a show of anxious duress.
"I have been afraid."
“I have always been afraid."
"Not for myself, but for the children as well."
"I was aware of your presence, that is true."
"And still the gap between you and me was insurmountable."
"THEY had you in their grasp and I could hear your screams and the mocking laughter, yet there was nothing, nothing, nothing that I could do..."
"I took you in the moment you arrived in the Warrens."
"As long as I remain within, they remain safe for me and everyframe who dwells and dreams within."
A long pause.
You can think only about that hideous truth: nothing to be done.
There are no medals for surviving, only glory for your sacrifice. A suicide mission, as befits one with the thinned blood of a clone.
But down in this realm of death and madness, there can be nothing but failure. It would be a happier fate to find your comrades and regroup in Hell; you are condemned to life.
<span class="mu-r">You and the others never stood a chance.</span>
"I'm terribly sorry."
A claw reaches out slowly towards your face yet retracts in a moment's apprehension.
<span class="mu-r">[+1 LIBIDIO]
[-1 ANTIPATHY]
[+1 TERROR]</span>
>WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?
The smile vanishes.
And in that strange little voice, full of something like shame or defeat,
<span class="mu-r">"Because I love you."</span>
"Is that not reason enough for doing the things which I am doing?"
"Stay here and keep this home with me. We will lay beside each other as bed-fellows intertwined, you and I, and take the joys of love. I will lay my head on your breast, and yours on mine, and we will listen to the sound of our beating hearts. I will give you more and more of myself each day, immortal and ageless for all the days to come."
"Please?"
[+1 LIBIDO]
