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[fridgetothefire]

[When the view clicks on, Anya is obviously changed. She has the glowing blue eyes, and her skin looks almost grey. She isn't quite light-skinned enough for classic pallor, but the color is leached from her face. She sits still and straight, with a degree of composure that is, in fact, precisely normal for her. She missed breakfast today, and now it's quite clear why.]

I've allowed Arthas to make me into a zombie for a few days. It is entirely temporary, and I am in control of myself and my faculties. There is no need for anyone to be alarmed.

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[darknessb4me]

Death Knight. Zombies are different.

[fridgetothefire]

Oh. I didn't realize.

[Of course, in a world where it was real, terminology was more specific.]

Can you tell me the differences?

[darknessb4me]

Death Knights are higher undead. We can talk and think independently when allowed to, and usually retain fine motor control. Zombies are functionally animals in humanoid bodies. If they think at all, it's usually about what they're trying to eat.

[fridgetothefire]

Thank you. How many other kinds are there?

[darknessb4me]

Forty or fifty, most of them unintelligent.

[fridgetothefire]

Are you a death knight, or something else?

[darknessb4me]

[Arthas narrows his eyes, just for a second. Clever question.]

I was the first Death Knight.

[fridgetothefire]

Ever?

[She's a clever person. But now, with him, it's a matter of thoughtful interest, rather than anything surreptitious.]

And the guy - your horseman. Did he become War because it suited him somehow? Or did you make him that specially? Are horsemen a subtype?

[darknessb4me]

Yes.

[The Horde's Death Knights are so different that they don't even count, in his opinion. Different thing, same name. Unrelated.]

I was just being dramatic with the horsemen. They were Death Knights. I gave him the title because I'd already had a Pestilence and a Famine.

[fridgetothefire]

I probably shouldn't like that as much as I do.

[Because - okay, the poor guy. But she likes dramatic. Dramatic and resonant even moreso.]

[darknessb4me]

I like it.

I won't do it again, of course, but I remember it being very entertaining.

[fridgetothefire]

No comment.

[It looked kind of entertining. Horrifyingly. Horrortaining.]