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[exceptionalthief]

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[cleptes]

[Friendly acquaintances worked for Bela. She wasn't much for friends back in her own world, more temporary allies until she no longer had a need for them.]

I was killed late on the 13th, came back early Tuesday. Just was in the wrong place at the wrong time. It honestly caught me off guard.

You saw the post, I don't need to go into much more detail than that. Nor do I want to.

[exceptionalthief]

I suppose it's good that it'd been nothing personal, not that the idea of being randomly brutalized is a comfort at all. Do you know who it was?

[cleptes]

No, I don't know who it was. He was - I'm pretty sure it was a man - wearing a mask or something to cover his face. There have been other murders before mine. It could be related.

[exceptionalthief]

A pity. It might have been entertaining to retaliate in some way.

[Was he offering to avenge her murder? Maybe. Perhaps he has a future as an assassin after all.]

[cleptes]

While killing him might make me feel better, he'd only come back if he were an imPort.

[If he were offering, he'd probably have to get in line. Other people might be there ahead of him.]

I've never killed anyone before.

[exceptionalthief]

True, but he'd still experience the pain of dying.

[As she knows only too well.]

I have, in the line of duty.

[Not that he's defining 'duty' in any kind of traditional sense.]

[cleptes]

[It's the kind of pain that would be drawn out by torturing him first. Could she really do that? Bela isn't sure.]

Self-preservation? I can't imagine you'd give up without a fight.

[exceptionalthief]

No, more along the lines of it being necessary.

[cleptes]

If you had no other choice I suppose.

Would you do the same here?

[exceptionalthief]

[Oh, he had a choice. He simply chose the more ruthless option.]

If the circumstances required it, yes.

[cleptes]

I appreciate your honesty.