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[lingeringfear]

I've been told that if you keep a body cold enough, it will retain its features for years, frozen in time. Can you imagine yourself like that? Your blood and your bone frozen solid, with skin and hair and everything, eyes open and wide and staring sightless into the world. I'd like you to really think about it- dying in the cold, that is. Preserved perfectly forever.

It would be an interesting way to keep you all from complaining, don't you think? A quick snap freeze and you're all immobile. If we're being honest, I think that would probably be the best solution to our interpersonal problems- but I'd want to keep you just barely alive somehow, conscious enough to still feel fear. Frozen and screaming. Take a minute and think about it. I rather like the idea.

...oh, also, Rage apparently won Hope's stupid poll. He's making the preparations to revive her and you should expect her to awaken at the end of the month.

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[lingeringfear]

That really doesn't involve much effort on my part. I opened the Door, it did most of the kidnapping for me.

[baths]

right. you'd know better than i would.

[ sam's been here a month and while she's adjusted some to the fact that magic and monsters and gods actually exist, spending any more thought on it than what's absolutely necessary still makes her feel like she might lose it. ]

will there always be monsters though? i mean, someone could really die. [ if they haven't already. the unasked question is whether or not he even cares. ]

[lingeringfear]

Oh, Hope will probably take care of that if it happens.

You're useful to the both of us. He's just more committed to keeping you alive than I am.

[baths]

[ that answers that. ]

you see why we're complaining though, right? you're putting us in real danger and you don't care whether or not it kills us. i know humans are new to you, but it's pretty terrible treatment any way you look at it.

[lingeringfear]

But Hope is reviving you. That should make it easier to bear, shouldn't it?

My goal isn't to kill you. It's to make you afraid. In order to do that, sometimes you have to be put in danger. Sometimes, that danger is life threatening.

It's a means to an end.

[baths]

we shouldn't have to bear it in the first place. [ is about all she can manage because the thought of dying and being revived over and over is starting to make her feel ill. ]

[lingeringfear]

But someone must, and you are the only sentient beings in the vicinity.