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[burninhale]

It'll be interesting. "Met my match"? I don't know about that. I wonder what happens when he doesn't have those pills.

Don't pat yourself on the back so much, it was hardly a difficult prediction. I could see it coming together and I was technically dead. And it's true, Argent must have seen it, too. But you know, there's someone else who probably saw it, and he's the one advising Derek not to listen to me.

The thing about Derek, though, is that he's practical. I think he'll come around. I hope he does. He's a good kid. Maybe now he understands a little better about hard choices. It's kind of a shame that he has to — that they all have to. But c'est la vie, right? We've got a lot of people to kill.

Also, doesn't Lydia deserve a fruit basket? What a trooper.

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[burninhale]

Nothing at all. That's how it's come to this. Of course the code was a ridiculous sham, but wars that last centuries don't do so without periods of recuperation for both sides.

Not that I'd call what's happening right now a war. It involves less than a dozen people, some of whom have been trying very hard up until now to cooperate. Sometimes they may not see us as human, but they do see us as people. Some of us used to be human. It's all very dramatic.

[stregare]

Social contracts, 'codes', they're all pretty easily broken. People don't realize that until they do it.

It sounds like some of those people are about to lose all sense of cooperation.

[burninhale]

People who live by their honor usually die by their honor, I find. If that's the way they want to go, it's their choice.

A slight reconfiguration of alliances is about to take place. No one is going to like it.

[stregare]

Some people might say it's one of those things that elevates 'survival' to 'living'.

Including you?

[burninhale]

If that's what it takes, so be it.

I'm a little more philosophical about these things.

[stregare]

And what is your current philosophy? Is it really just "whatever it takes"?

[burninhale]

That what I've got now is better than what I had twenty-four hours ago. I hadn't quite hit rock bottom. You have to dig a lot deeper than that in Beacon Hill.

I'll have to win people over to "whatever it takes," though.