Xaviers!

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:23 pm**

Tereza flops down on the bunk in the holding cell next to Isolde's, leaving the door to the cell open. She picks up a pillow and puts it over her face as if to block out the light.

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:28 pm**

"You shouldn't have come back here," Isolde's voice comes from the neighboring cell.

"I'm sure they told you I'm a bad influence."

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:32 pm**

"They didn't have to tell me you were a bad influence," Tereza says, muffled by the pillow. "But all the damn lights are so bright right now and I only have to put up with you here instead of everyone else. Don't you feel privileged?"

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:40 pm**

"It takes some getting used to. Our eyes become sharper," she mentions, oddly helpful.

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:43 pm**

"How long does this usually last? Or does it come and go? Or is it different for everyone?"

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:46 pm**

"I couldn't bear the light for a little over a week after I fled the hunters. The night felt better. Not surprising, I suppose. It was easier back then. More places the light couldn't reach."

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:50 pm**

"I am a bit of a night owl, but I can't do the full nocturnal thing. I still have classes, a girlfriend, and other stuff that want attention. I guess it will just be a hell of a week."

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:52 pm**

"It lingers if you fight with it," she says simply.

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:55 pm**

"I suppose you would advise giving in to it?"

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 8:58 pm**

"What do abused or neglected animals do?" She asks a question to answer.

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 9:03 pm**

"So that would be a 'yes' to my question, but she certainly doesn't behave like an abused or neglected animal, more like one who hasn't been properly trained. Only an improperly trained animal just bites the mailman, she doesn't bite the mailman and turn him into some sort of hellbeast."

Posted: **Mon Nov 28, 2016 9:07 pm**

"It's a wolf, not a dog."

"And if you are determined to make the wolf your enemy, she will live up to that."

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 12:14 am**

"So tell me, how can she not be an enemy? So many things she wants are hazardous to everyone around me."

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 12:22 am**

"You don't always disagree."

It's not a question.

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 12:28 am**

"And broken clocks are right twice a day, but that doesn't mean you should use one. I get that she can be helpful, but she's frequently unhelpful or outright dangerous."

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 12:32 am**

"Are you listening to her?"

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 12:39 am**

"I would assume so. I'm perfectly aware of which students she thinks smell like prey and which she thinks we should hit preemptively."

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 12:40 am**

"You don't seem to have thought much on why she wants what she wants."

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 12:48 am**

"I assume it's because she's a survivor and her idea of what survival requires is a bit more... basic."

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 12:53 am**

"You assume, but how will you be able to persuade her if you only go with what you think she's like?"

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 1:00 am**

Tereza's sigh is audible even to those without acute hearing and it sounds very tired. "I can't ever trust her because she's a part of this damn infection or whatever you want to call it. And if I can't trust her, then what?"

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 1:18 am**

"You take a great many things as given that aren't necessarily so."

"And why? Because you don't want to end up like me?"

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 1:28 am**

"That's some of it," she says, deciding there's no harm in being honest with Isolde, "But I know what 'I'm' feeling and how... out of bounds it is."

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 1:36 am**

"And you think I put this in you."

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 1:46 am**

"It started after you bit me. It's not hard to draw cause and effect. Are you saying you didn't?"

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 2:11 am**

"I didn't put something in so much as pull something out."

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 2:15 am**

"So you're of the mind that I was always a dangerous killer? And you just, what, gave me something to express that?"

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 2:21 am**

"Again, expectations. If that's how you see her, that's what you'll get."

"Is it really so strange to think there might be more to you than you understand just yet? Is everyone straightforward, to you? Is your girlfriend?"

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 2:26 am**

Tereza rolls over, turning her back on Isolde while keeping the pillow over her face. "Things were becoming straightforward until this happened," she growls.

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 2:39 am**

"You thought they were. Wouldn't it be boring if we were never wrong?"

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 2:46 am**

"I'm a little tired of being wrong."

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 2:51 am**

"You are closer to the truth than you've ever been. You've touched a deep seam, and that can be frightening."

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 3:00 am**

"Truth? What 'truth' could there possibly be in this curse?"

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 3:05 am**

"Some brush up against these things in themselves. Most recoil from them. Shove them down. Lock them away. They convince themselves that wasn't them."

"You no longer have that luxury."

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 3:10 am**

"So encouraging. The curse is only making me this way because I was already a horrible person."

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 3:13 am**

"I can't cure you of these assumptions. Only you can."

"But if you continue to think this way, it'll only end in tears when you figure out what your little ginger is really like."

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 3:26 am**

There was the slight sound of ripping cloth as Tereza's claws punctured the pillow. In front of Isolde's eyes, her wild hair developed streaks of black. She otherwise didn't respond to Isolde, but the scent of resignation was unmistakable for as refined and trained a nose as Isolde's. There is just a soft murmur of "one more mission, I just have one more mission".

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 3:30 am**

"Is that all?" Isolde asks idly.

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 3:43 am**

"A promise to keep," she says quietly, "then..." She doesn't finish the sentence.

Posted: **Tue Nov 29, 2016 3:44 am**

"You want to run."

"That's it, isn't it?"

"You think I've just taken all the good things from you."

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