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hadriel2016-06-21 01:18 am
hotspurred) wrote in hadriel2016-06-21 01:18 am
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[Henry's voice may be recognisable from the Guard's announcement a few days ago. Yet on this occasion, unlike then, he speaks quickly and sharply with a forceful urgency. There's no time for him to lock this to the Guard.]
Pay heed! Hope's temple may soon come under assault by a monster far more terrible than its kin. Through savage harm it plans to lure out Hope. If you be within, do not leave the temple's protection unless you are prepared for death.
[The reason for his warning quickly makes itself known, faster than Henry would have liked. This voice, too, might be recognised by some.]
I will do far worse than kill.
[Every attempt at emotion is still off kilter, still too dampened by clarity and ice to sound right. It sounds like Kate but all the same it is not, not even a little. It lilts in all the right ways but it sounds like it hasn't ever felt emotion before this.
Which makes sense, because it was only brought into the world a few short hours ago.]
Preparing for death isn't very useful when I don't want you dead, Not yet. Not until your skin is peeling from the burns and every bone in your body is snapped in two. Or more. It doesn't matter that much.
[That is where he switches off his phone, so that it cannot prove a distraction in the fight ahead. Consider yourselves warned about the Torturedemon, Hadriel. There will be no replies from Henry, but feel free to talk among yourselves.]
Pay heed! Hope's temple may soon come under assault by a monster far more terrible than its kin. Through savage harm it plans to lure out Hope. If you be within, do not leave the temple's protection unless you are prepared for death.
[The reason for his warning quickly makes itself known, faster than Henry would have liked. This voice, too, might be recognised by some.]
I will do far worse than kill.
[Every attempt at emotion is still off kilter, still too dampened by clarity and ice to sound right. It sounds like Kate but all the same it is not, not even a little. It lilts in all the right ways but it sounds like it hasn't ever felt emotion before this.
Which makes sense, because it was only brought into the world a few short hours ago.]
Preparing for death isn't very useful when I don't want you dead, Not yet. Not until your skin is peeling from the burns and every bone in your body is snapped in two. Or more. It doesn't matter that much.
[That is where he switches off his phone, so that it cannot prove a distraction in the fight ahead. Consider yourselves warned about the Torturedemon, Hadriel. There will be no replies from Henry, but feel free to talk among yourselves.]
[voice; locked]
[She won't let it go through anyone else trying to kill her.]
You are going to put Nick Valentine in charge. Do you understand me?
[voice; locked]
to her, this is all some perfectly fucking timed message reminding her that it's just one more wrong fucking step before she is that thing. before everything it says is words from her own lips rather than its. oh fuck- ]
W-whatever needs to be done. [ there's bile rising in her throat and the exhaustion makes it so much fucking harder to keep herself logical and unfazed. so maybe her answers don't make sense. she doesn't know. she just wants it gone.
but who could possibly remain unfazed if this thing came from them? ]
[voice; locked]
[There's absolutely nothing in Maketh's voice now. She's already made her decision.]
You are going to protect these people now. That's all.