2nd Bite [Video]

[dirge]

Sam human, I have located two of the data p- books, on your list of wishes.

[He opens his palm revealing a worn copy of The Diary of Anne Frank and a newer looking copy of The Colour Purple. He has since stopped damaging his drone, so the picture is clear again.]

Also, this is to let everyone know I'm moving into the warehouse. Everything in there is mine now. Take anything and I will know.

[If he ever finishes doing inventory, which might take him years at this rate.]

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[10_20_15_5_50]

[The golden rule is well and good, but there's Sam's silver: if pushed, push back.]

You heard what I said.

[She stares up at the clone, serious, her free hand fisted at her side.]

Humans, merpeople, anyone at all---j'men calice. [Quebecois would roll their eyes since it sounds something like 'j'meh-calee,' but the sentiment behind the sacre comes through clear.] I'll stand by it.

My haunting you would mean this ball of malice hanging around, spiriting away most of your stuff---phenomenon's well-documented as 'asports'---and wrecking what remained. I'd be angry enough to make everything awful.

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[dirge]

[He swallows nervously and audibly... She doesn't sound like she's bluffing. Maybe he should be careful until he can confirm her claim one way or another. Well, any other way then possibly inflicting it on himself, that is.]

Spiriting away my- and wrecking it? That IS awful! No, no I cannot let you do that!

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[10_20_15_5_50]

It would be. I'm not much for half-measures.

[Sam crosses her arms. Her expression is still serious, but the noise of that nervous swallow is remarkably satisfying.]

You won't have to worry about that, though, if you don't eat or otherwise murder anyone.

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[dirge]

[Dirge actually backs away a step, staring as if analyzing her for a moment. For now it seems he must take her seriously.]

Unless this restaurant serves live meals, I don't think you need to worry about it.

[After he ate, the jet resolves to go back to the warehouse and try to find some information on this 'witching' thing. And haunting too.]

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[10_20_15_5_50]

[Despite having the advantages of size, and speed, and strength, he's stepped back---from her. Just her. Sam manages to maintain her mien on account of the situation's stakes, but causing that motion is something she can carry as long as she has a hide.]

I'm happy to hear that.

[She may worry a little anyway, but she's certainly not going to show it. Instead, she'll nod to Dirge---civility, see?---and moves to the Gateway. Now that she has her books, she has about six hundred pages to prepare for use; it's time to get going.]