027 ☣ some messages

[fridgetothefire]

[Private to Zane, Abigail, and Cassel, vaguetimed after the breach, Wednesday-ish?]

...how are you guys?


[Private to Ben, Wednesdayish]

Thank you.


[Private to Sylvanas, thursday]

[Her voice is small, nervous and tentative, though there isn't really fear in it, just uncertainty that she ought to be asking at all.]

I know we haven't spoken, much. I'm really sorry if this is - rude or painful, or anything, and you don't have to answer. I just.

You hate Arthas, right?


[Private to Mal, Friday, text, sent right before she dies]

I've decided to let Arthas make me a zombie for a few days. If all goes as planned, I will be able to resist any and all brain-eating urges. If it's messed up or he lied to me about what's going to happen, being killed will reset me to my normal self. I don't want any of the people who love me to have to do it. Could you check by Cabin 1x17 in the next few minutes and make sure I don't emerge on the warpath? If you don't want to, I'd trust Beatrix to do it too.

Thanks.


[Private to Arthas, Friday]

I'm ready. Is now good for you?


[OOC: I may add other starters to this post as older things play out/I think of them. If anyone has something they want to have brought up with Anya BEFORE she becomes a zombie, let me know and I will add it. There will probably be a separate public zombie post later.]

Comments

[fridgetothefire]

Too bad. Your other Death Knights will have to deal with the...permanency of it. I'd test the effects longer for you if the barge allowed it, and if it wouldn't worry everyone so much.

[Calm, and very much sincere.]

[darknessb4me]

Why?

[fridgetothefire]

You're trying to do right by people you hurt and used - not everybody, but the ones you were. Closest to, responsible for, in a way. I can understand that. It's what I want to do when I graduate, too.

So. I won't pretend I didn't do this for my own reasons. But I'm glad I could help.

[darknessb4me]

Oh.

...Thank you.

[fridgetothefire]

[She nods, lets that branch of the conversation end.]

So what's the failsafe?

[darknessb4me]

That was it. Just the hunger. It's meant to make sure that we do our jobs.

[fridgetothefire]

I'll - push myself, as much as I can. Make sure I'm still in control when I'm hungry.

[darknessb4me]

No.

[His voice is sharp, for the first time in the conversation.]

You have a strong will, your capacity for magic shows that clearly enough. But if you push it and lose control, we'll have learned nothing about whether it's possible for you to behave normally while being undead.

[fridgetothefire]

[She jolts, startles a little.]

We'll have learned - where the possibility stops.

Okay, I won't, I didn't mean...starving myself. But your other death knights, they're not going to be hypercautious indefinitely. It's a better test if I push, at least a little.

[darknessb4me]

It's not. I need to know you can walk before you try to run. You haven't even given it a full day yet.