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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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[fridgetothefire]

I had a lot of reasons.

[She always does.]

[wedonot]

And I'm curious about what those are.

[fridgetothefire]

Most of them were curiosity, in one form or another.

[wedonot]

I mean this in the best possible way- [And he means that. Honesty agreement and all.] But did you put any thought into what people's reactions to this was going to be? I understand curiosity's a powerful thing, but it's not an excuse to put yourself at risk and upset the people who care about you.

[fridgetothefire]

[In the best possible way, then, she considers him.]

That's a double-barreled objection. Taking risks and worrying people are separate problems, even if they're interconnected.

This wasn't a whim. The risks I weighed carefully and made meticulous preparations for. I didn't make this announcement until I was sure there wasn't anything - severe to worry about.

I knew people would be perturbed, at first. It's viscerally disquieting, undeath. But I'm not suffering. I'm not going to go mad and eat anyone's face. Emotionally, physically, I'm not any more altered than I would be by a flood, and less than some. I think I overestimated how much people would be acclimated to that.

[wedonot]

Evidently.

[fridgetothefire]

And yet.

Two days from now it will just be another whacky barge thing that happened, and this one didn't even put anyone in the infirmary.

Tell me I'm wrong.

[wedonot]

While I think you have a valid point, I don't think it's exactly fair for you to say everyone's immediately going to write it off as soon as it's over. They have a right to their own feelings and reactions to what happened.