vampish_aleera | Nostalgia

So, we find ourselves a new influx, yes?

Not long, my friends... Not long before you come to understand the strangeness of this place and the nonsense you must endure.

I miss Verona. It has been long since I had opportunity to speak with one who understands the tongue of my homeland.

Cowboy! What have you been doing? Amuse Aleera with your tales of clanking boots, terror and flintlocks!

Toshiko, it has been long since we spoke... I had hopes for you, eh? Hopes that in finding me my new path, it would help you, also. You are no longer my teacher - you are my neighbour. My friend. Are there things troubling you? Things I can perhaps help with?

Pirate lady! I read of your sorrows! But you still dwell here, I think... I have little to do and many I have known - they have gone from this place. My bloodied sister, too... But you? You do not go. You have strength - even when feeling weak. I should come share your burdens, eh? Or perhaps teach drinking songs!

Sam, the policeman! Prefect! The one who would be called 'Master'! Billy! Miss Parker! And more names than even these! We, all of us, have made this our home. Not always from choice, yes? But a home, still.

Come, be thankful... There are not yet the spinning contraptions of death lining our halls. No winged serpents. No living volcano. No speeches from the Admiral creature of strange waters or land we must go to. And there shall be others new to here. Others who may yet touch your hearts - for good and ill.

'Inmate'. 'Warden'. Titles... Nothing more! No plottings, today, hmm? No grand schemes. These things reflect badly on our honour and achieve so little.

So! It is to you all whom I speak! Let us be friends, if only for a day. Then we can return to being monsters, criminals and petty thieves. Console the nearest you find in sadness.

You cannot know when they shall be you.

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evilbystatute.livejournal.com

But! But!

I love the evil plotting and grand scheming. It's what makes me feel alive!

vampish_aleera

It is fun...

It really is, dammit. Discouraging it. Pfft.

You could resume after?

I suppose...

Then you have your solution!

Not sure I like having to wait.

The problem with existence, no?

True enough, unfortunately.

jungledoctor.livejournal.com

You're quite the grandiose speeches type, aren't you? I'm Dr. Shephard. Let's be friends for a day.

No. I am Romanian.

You have known others of the undead, Sir?

My mistake.

Not recently, no.

Now you do! Aleera!

I'm sorry, I don't speak Romanian. What's an Aleera?

ME!

[Jack might be regretting his offer of friendship right about now]

It's... nice to meet you.

I enjoy this, also!

What do you enjoy?

Hunting...

Games.

I'm not particularly fond of games myself. I could always be doing something more useful with my time.

What better thing is there than to find reason to smile?

Love?
Family?
Good health?

[Okay, maybe Jack doesn't have alot of things to smile about right now]

Meeting new people?

Does that not cause smiles?

hopeless-hacker.livejournal.com

[Written in Romanian, since you asked and Tosh has a perfectly good translator just lying around:]

Nothing troubling me, no. I'm just at a loose end .

Loose ends... Toshiko! Such talk from the one who taught me to tie my own in bows!

Tell me of these quandries. I may help solve them for you!

No, that's - having loose ends and being at a loose end are different concepts. It just means I don't feel like I have anything to really do, while I'm between Inmates.

Oh.

Do your contraptions not still give you happiness? They were the cause of great satisfaction for you! You would like new projects...? Suggestions from others, perhaps!