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Astarion Ancunin

omg she's a reporter

it's Interview with a Vampire

[ he doesn't seem bothered by the shape shifting, but his eyes look the tiniest bit less tense when she turns into Camille again.

he's not very good at being supportive to people, or telling them what they want to hear at their lowest. he's just not really built that way. but he does tap the barrier curiously, seeing if it's doing that thing where it solidifies if he comes close to it. ]

I wouldn't say getting possessed by a monster makes you like your family.

Killing does.

[She watches him tap. Reflexively, her fingers splay to join in. Press around his, unable to connect. Solid as brick.]

My sister's a killer. My mother's a killer. [A beat. She needs the time to choke. The words come out thick.] It was her medicine, you know. I used it on him. At curfew. Put it one of the drinks and whoever picked it up...well.

[She laughs. It's ragged, wretched. It ends with her clutching her own face.]

I never did tell you what those words meant, did I?

[The first week here, in the church. A child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.]

[ it’s strange how it’s so … fluid one moment, shifting like fog, but immediately knows when someone tries to breach it. he taps the surface again, and it solidifies like stone between his hand and hers. ]

No, you didn’t.

[ “a child weaned on poison considers harm a comfort.”

come to think of it, a bottle of medicine had been her item from home, listed on that profile, hadn’t it? ]

[Camille grimaces.]

Well, there you have it. [It's too hard to keep looking at him. She shudders, breath rasping, abandoning the touch through the barrier to clutch at her arm.] I followed in the family footsteps, and now I'm just waiting.

...They didn't vote for me, though.

It doesn't sound like your family had monster possession to worry about. [ that is... quite literally a huge sign she was probably not like her family. ]

I don't have quite the same outright negative view on death I think of lot of people have, but I would argue wanting so badly not to be like someone or something makes you a cut above them in the first place.

[ ... ]

No, they didn't. I'm not sure what that means for you.

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puts them in my mouth

SPIT THAT OUT /gale voice

GROWLS AND SHAKES IT AROUND