Harken/Innana - Well, that got heavy.

[00:30] <culminateCarnivore> You're suprisingly easy to find for a fugitive, Harken---❥
[00:31] <abrasiveCaliginist> More grubslingers? Hmph. I'm not afraid of you. By now, you should know that.
[00:33] <culminateCarnivore> I think we both know that's not quite true---❥
[00:33] <culminateCarnivore> You might not fear your own death but that doesn't mean you don't fear those who come after you---❥
[00:34] <culminateCarnivore> You've stopped burning the bodies---❥
[00:35] <abrasiveCaliginist> Because I've grown weary of your pursuits. You know I won't yield, even after dozens of sins in the name of self-defense.
[00:37] <abrasiveCaliginist> I will not falter. Which one are you? Esther? Ermine? It doesn't matter. If Marina couldn't appeal to me, your chances aren't good.
[00:37] <culminateCarnivore> Of course not---❥ What's one more death on the pile to Harken Sirius---❥
[00:38] <culminateCarnivore> I assure you, though, I'm not looking to appeal to you at all---❥
[00:38] <culminateCarnivore> Consider me simply--------❥
[00:38] <culminateCarnivore> Curious---❥
[00:38] <abrasiveCaliginist> Another death is needless, and it astounds me that you'd pursue a single prodigal student so.
[00:39] <culminateCarnivore> It does seem to be a suicidal crusade doesn't it---❥
[00:39] <culminateCarnivore> That's a little funny---❥
[00:40] <abrasiveCaliginist> How so?
[00:41] <culminateCarnivore> If they'd simply left you alone---❥ I think after a while---❥ You would have done the job for them---❥
[00:42] <culminateCarnivore> But it's my sense they've missed their chance---❥
[00:42] <culminateCarnivore> Too bad---❥ I think you'd probably make a lovely corpse---❥
[00:43] <abrasiveCaliginist> Too lovely for your weapon, I think.
[00:43] <culminateCarnivore> Ha---❥
[00:43] <culminateCarnivore> Wouldn't you like to find out---❥
[00:44] <abrasiveCaliginist> I'd like to be left alone.
[00:44] <culminateCarnivore> I'm sure your friends would be sad to hear you say so---❥
[00:45] <culminateCarnivore> Humans seem much more willing to overlook the cruelty of folks like you and I---❥
[00:45] <abrasiveCaliginist> Humans...?
[00:46] <culminateCarnivore> False ignorance doesn't become you, Harken---❥
[00:47] <abrasiveCaliginist> There is absolutely no way you'd know what a human is. I don't believe it for a moment.
[00:47] <abrasiveCaliginist> Clearly, I'm out of my gourd. But that's only half the reason.
[00:48] <abrasiveCaliginist> The other half is my continued indulgence of your antics.
[00:48] <culminateCarnivore> Why not---❥ I've been so indulgent with you---❥
[00:48] <culminateCarnivore> And I assure you I am fully aware of the aliens you've spoken with, calling themselves humans---❥
[00:49] <abrasiveCaliginist> You'll get nothing from me on the topic.
[00:50] <culminateCarnivore> Oh no---❥
[00:50] <culminateCarnivore> ---------❥
[00:51] <culminateCarnivore> How adorable---❥ Is Harken Sirius, murderer and betrayer, playing the stalwart protector---❥
[00:52] <abrasiveCaliginist> You consider that adorable? You're one to talk, antagonizing people out of the blue like this.
[00:52] <culminateCarnivore> Antagonizing---❥
[00:52] <abrasiveCaliginist> If you wanna run into my bullets six times, you go ahead. But hurry up and do it already, that I may be done with you.
[00:53] <culminateCarnivore> I'd rather be done with you first---❥
[00:53] <culminateCarnivore> Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be an option---❥
[00:54] <abrasiveCaliginist> Why not? It's as simple as walking away, stranger. They've all had that option.
[00:54] <abrasiveCaliginist> You're no different.
[00:54] <culminateCarnivore> And yet you came back---❥
[00:56] <culminateCarnivore> I wish you hadn't---❥ You make things---❥
[00:56] <culminateCarnivore> Complicated---❥
[00:56] <culminateCarnivore> They've never come back before---❥
[00:58] <abrasiveCaliginist> Hm? Speak true.
[01:00] <culminateCarnivore> I've said nothing but the truth to you---❥ It isn't my burden that you're too wrapped in your own guilt to see it---❥
[01:00] <abrasiveCaliginist> Atonement is a journey undertaken one step at a time.
[01:00] <culminateCarnivore> You could be so much more than you are, you know---❥
[01:01] <culminateCarnivore> Except that you refuse to accept who and what you are---❥
[01:01] <abrasiveCaliginist> Guilt doesn't just "go away". Given the nature of our species, I highly doubt your hands are unsullied.
[01:01] <culminateCarnivore> No---❥ They are not---❥
[01:01] <culminateCarnivore> But I have never mourned that fact---❥
[01:02] <abrasiveCaliginist> If you don't feel *something* for those you've slain, if you don't allow them *some* modicum of grief, I've no idea what to say to you.
[01:02] <abrasiveCaliginist> They lived, were pitied, were hated.
[01:02] <abrasiveCaliginist> They saw moonrise and moonset.
[01:02] <abrasiveCaliginist> They had Lusii just as we do, or did, in my case.
[01:03] <abrasiveCaliginist> They weren't just sacks of flesh, needlessly consuming nutrients.
[01:03] <abrasiveCaliginist> Effort went into their lives.
[01:03] <abrasiveCaliginist> So talk all the trash you like about guilt, but I'll remember them all the same.
[01:04] <culminateCarnivore> You are a hypocrite, Harken---❥
[01:04] <culminateCarnivore> At least I am honest about what I am---❥
[01:04] <abrasiveCaliginist> I am no hypocrite! I did not come all the miles and endure all the hardships to be derided by a complete stranger!
[01:05] <abrasiveCaliginist> There's no denying who I am, and just because I see myself differently than you see me doesn't make your paradigm an absolute, objective truth!
[01:06] <culminateCarnivore> Fine---❥ Then convince me this is not the truth---❥
[01:07] <culminateCarnivore> You killed your master out of spite---❥ And you enjoyed it---❥
[01:08] <abrasiveCaliginist> I killed him out of anger, and I regret it to this day. His life had value of its own, incomparable to the others I've slain.
[01:08] <abrasiveCaliginist> What do you stand to gain from this? Do you treat other aspects of your daily life with this sick perversion?
[01:09] <abrasiveCaliginist> Who are you to call me a freak?
[01:09] <culminateCarnivore> I have not---❥
[01:09] <culminateCarnivore> There is nothing unnatural about what you are---❥
[01:10] <culminateCarnivore> I simply do not understand why you deny it---❥
[01:11] <abrasiveCaliginist> Are you getting off on this or something? I've nothing to deny or hide.
[01:11] <abrasiveCaliginist> Not from you.
[01:12] <culminateCarnivore> ------------❥
[01:14] <culminateCarnivore> When you look inside your heart---❥ Are you never---❥ Afraid---❥ Of what you find---❥
[01:16] <abrasiveCaliginist> What is there to be afraid of? What do you think I fear, since you seem so insistent on that assumption?
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[01:18] <culminateCarnivore> I thought we were the same---❥
[01:19] <culminateCarnivore> I guess we're not---❥
[01:20] <culminateCarnivore> Goodbye, Harken---❥
[01:20] <abrasiveCaliginist> You've doubts about yourself? That's rich.
[01:20] <culminateCarnivore> Next time you come near me---❥ I really will put an arrow through your throat---❥
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