She remembered that. For a long few moments, Kaede assumed that jackal was howling about her. Because of course she was a monster, and a fleshless shade on top of that. She couldn't smell the blood smeared on his face but it still barely fazed her, desensitized and numbed years and years ago. His words cut more.
And yet they'd left him, crumpled on the wayside. It could have been anything, really, that made him collapse like that. The sickness, the blood, a little touch to an artery in his heart...
Kaede was a monster, after all. Just a dead one.
"D̸o̸n̴'̴t̷ ̵k̷n̴o̵w̶.," she said simply, though without the bemused air of before. "D̷o̷ ̵g̸h̸o̶s̴t̷s̵ ̴u̶s̸u̸a̵l̸l̴y̸ ̴r̴e̴m̸e̶m̷b̶e̶r̵ ̸t̸h̴e̴y̷ ̷c̸a̶n̸'̷t̶ ̷t̷a̷l̵k̸ ̸h̵e̶r̵e̸?̸"
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She remembered that. For a long few moments, Kaede assumed that jackal was howling about her. Because of course she was a monster, and a fleshless shade on top of that. She couldn't smell the blood smeared on his face but it still barely fazed her, desensitized and numbed years and years ago. His words cut more.
And yet they'd left him, crumpled on the wayside. It could have been anything, really, that made him collapse like that. The sickness, the blood, a little touch to an artery in his heart...
Kaede was a monster, after all. Just a dead one.
"D̸o̸n̴'̴t̷ ̵k̷n̴o̵w̶.," she said simply, though without the bemused air of before. "D̷o̷ ̵g̸h̸o̶s̴t̷s̵ ̴u̶s̸u̸a̵l̸l̴y̸ ̴r̴e̴m̸e̶m̷b̶e̶r̵ ̸t̸h̴e̴y̷ ̷c̸a̶n̸'̷t̶ ̷t̷a̷l̵k̸ ̸h̵e̶r̵e̸?̸"