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I...
[There's a long pause here, where she fidgits with her hands and looks down at her knees, at her fingers and her fingernails, avoiding eye contact. This is painful to start even a few years removed from the original event - getting stronger every day, but still raw and oozing and wet under where it's scabbed over. Nothing's hurting right now, of course, but there are... these little flutters of sensation that could so easily become pain. Later. Soon. Once they start digging around.]
So. [She swallows.] How... exactly... did you want me to start?
[There's a long pause here, where she fidgits with her hands and looks down at her knees, at her fingers and her fingernails, avoiding eye contact. This is painful to start even a few years removed from the original event - getting stronger every day, but still raw and oozing and wet under where it's scabbed over. Nothing's hurting right now, of course, but there are... these little flutters of sensation that could so easily become pain. Later. Soon. Once they start digging around.]
So. [She swallows.] How... exactly... did you want me to start?
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Date: 2010-03-21 04:30 am (UTC)I needed someone who was the best, because the Itto-ryu... those men who destroyed so many dojo... they were the best too. And Manji was definitely the best. [An awkward sort of shrug.] He's immortal.
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Date: 2010-03-25 05:08 am (UTC)That's how I met Doa and Isaku actually. Sort of. Anyway, it's mostly because you're not the only person who wanted to know more about what made Manji immortal... although these people were mostly trying to work out how to transfer it. I think.
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Date: 2010-03-25 05:19 pm (UTC)Okay. Yeah. So... it was more than that too, I think. The techniques they were using - hundreds of people died in just a few weeks. They had a few of what you could call... semi-successes, I guess, but they were nothing like the other true immortals I met. They were just... I don't know. Destroyed mentally, or something. They lost their minds and became no better than animals that couldn't tell the difference between friend or foe.
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Date: 2010-03-25 05:30 pm (UTC)You have to understand... the situation here was really bad. Manji had been imprisoned for weeks, Isaku for a long while too. Doa and I had already fought our way through a lot... we even thought Isaku was really dead for a while. We were underground, and some of the explosions breached the moat walls, so freezing water was rushing in from every direction. And they turned this thing loose... he must have suffered terribly, but he was out of his mind by then, I think. He looked like a demon... these long limbs, longer than any regular human would have, that just sliced through the water, faster than any of us, and these long blades on his hands, a better reach than any of us, and. Um.
Even though they're immortal, they're not unkillable. If you cut off the head, it really takes them out, and there are other things... but anyway, the head is the fastest way. And this guy... his head and his neck... they were reinforced. So the one way we knew to take him out just... wouldn't work. The others fought and fought, and other guards were coming in, and I just tried to help, and it was all insane, and that creature was completely mindless. It just... was there to kill.
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Date: 2010-03-30 03:44 pm (UTC)As unattractive in practice as it is in concept, if not more so, but as long as they don't have faces, I couldn't care less.
[he pauses]
They're better off dead anyway.
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Date: 2010-03-31 01:03 am (UTC)[She pauses.]
...Maybe by that point. You're probably right - better dead than... that. But that creature was a person, once. I can't forget that.
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Date: 2010-03-31 01:08 am (UTC)There was no way around killing him. But the fact that that creature was made in the first place...
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