Urban Dead: The Price of the Oath

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:54 am

"It was not noble, although I am glad I did it now. I just wanted you for trade if you lived or eat you if you died."

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:58 am

"Well did you get what you wanted?" she asked, peering up at him.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 3:59 am

"No. I did not. Instead my world changed. The new one was better."

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:02 am

"I'm glad you stayed," she said. "You're pretty much the only one here who isn't just... Bothered by me. Petro and Melanie are busy, Silver left..." She sighed.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:03 am

"Why? Why would you bother them?"

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:05 am

"Dunno," she said with a shrug. "They just... Don't really seem to have anything to relate, I guess. They've all got families. They've got duties here. And I'm just the dumb new girl who doesn't know how things work. But you're like me, you're new and you're alone."

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:08 am

"Guess so. Maybe you should talk to the blind boy."

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:09 am

"Blind boy?" she asked. Jared had only come into the infirmary once since she'd arrived, and the whole time he'd sat with his head resting on Punt's bed like a loyal dog.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:11 am

"The blind boy. The one who can see into minds."

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:12 am

"See into minds?" she repeated. "I've never... I've never seen a blind boy here."

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:16 am

Wendigo shrugged. "Dark skinned. Blind. He calls Punt, Petro, and Melanie kin. He'll be around."

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:18 am

"There was a boy that came to see Punt... I don't remember much... It was before I'd started feeling better." She canted her head to the side. "So, when he looked into your mind, what did he see?"

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:21 am

"That I wasn't a threat to the people here. That I could make a place here that I would . . . . like." Happiness was not something that he was quite ready to believe could be his."

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:24 am

"You believe him?" she asked, watching his face.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:25 am

"I don't talk much, but he knew everything about me. So yes." He shrugged and sat down next to her. "Stranger things have happened. The dead walking, men turning into cannibalistic ghouls, the world as we know it ending."

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:28 am

"Let it end," she said with a dismissive wave. "I wasn't happy there, anyway."

She suddenly understood why he'd come to see her. The boy who could see into minds... The girl blushed, the idea of someone invading her thoughts a bizarre one. Especially without her even realising it.

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:29 am

"He said you wanted to speak with me. Nothing else."

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:31 am

"It's still strange," she said with a laugh. "To have someone read your thoughts without even knowing they're doing it... But it's not like there's anything in there I'm ashamed of."

She smirked.

"I'm sure most of it was just, 'Ow! My ribs!'"

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:32 am

He smiled, showing a line of white teeth.

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:34 am

She reached up and poked him in the cheek.

"See? That's two smiles I've gotten out of you thus far."

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:35 am

"Yes. And I like you."

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:40 am

She grinned. "Well I hope you wouldn't come in here and chatter at me if you didn't," she teased. "Maybe ghouls are better than humans there--humans lie."

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:42 am

"No past. No secrets. No reason to lie yet."

Caz · Post by **Caz** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:46 am

"Some people don't even need secrets to lie," she said. "But I won't ever lie to you. Before the outbreak, I was a right bitch... But I'm like you now: new."

Cynical Cat · Post by **Cynical Cat** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 4:47 am

"Didn't know you before, don't care. We both live in the now. And for the future."

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