Duplicity Overflow

[lightlessflame]

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June 2020 Truth Meme

[lightlessflame]

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No, not them, exactly. Just the feelings that surround it. I do not require physical substances to survive. I apologize if it's difficult to understand.

June 2020 Truth Meme

[lightlessflame]

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I'm not altogether sure that I do...but thank you. It's nice to hear such sentiments. There's no erasing the life I've lived, but I'm trying to live differently now.

June 2020 Truth Meme

[lightlessflame]

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I'm glad to hear that. Despite my disdain for them, they still deserve good company with one who can care for them.

June 2020 Truth Meme

[lightlessflame]

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I hope none of you had to see those worms devour children. It is not a sight one ever forgets.

[alwayskayaking]

Luckily we didn't. Only had to watch them burrow into my own flesh.

[in_sects]

Oh. Good. I'm rather fond of them.

[lightlessflame]

That sounds like a terrible experience. I'm truly sorry that you had to go through it.

[lightlessflame]

Are they difficult to maintain?

[alwayskayaking]

I survived and didn't lose my mind. That's all that matter in the end.

[lightlessflame]

There are worse things than insanity.

[alwayskayaking]

And worse things than death.

[in_sects]

Not at all. I have a bit of a miniature ecosystem that they can certainly fit within.

[lightlessflame]

You're absolutely correct. Are you happy, being alive?

[alwayskayaking]

For the time being. Are you?

[lightlessflame]

From time to time.

[alwayskayaking]

Then I suppose only time will tell. [That might almost be a joke.]

[colorature]

can you eat food though
like at all

[lightlessflame]

No, I cannot.

[colorature]

oh
that really sucks

[craftylikea]

I can think of very few people who would deserve not to have been stopped from such an action.
Judging by what I know of you and by your response now, I doubt very much that you would rank among them.

[lightlessflame]

[This...isn't a terrible conversation. It's a good sign? That he's continued to talk with her?]

And I suppose you're right.

[She pauses before sending another message.]

Thank you.

[lightlessflame]

I've never known it, so it hasn't really ever bothered me.

[Though it has made for some awkward dates.]

But I know that it's a very pleasant thing, for most people.

[alwayskayaking]

Don't thank me.

[lightlessflame]

I'm only glad you're still speaking with me.

[colorature]

it is
i mean i dont have to eat human food to survive
but just having blood all the time would be so boring

[lightlessflame]

Interesting. Did you build it yourself?

[in_sects]

Yes. I was always going to be keeping a number of bugs, so it makes sense to be efficient about it.

[lightlessflame]

[Oh, look at that. A convenient excuse to divert the conversation away from herself.]

I take it you're a vampire, then?

[alwayskayaking]

Don't make me regret it.

instructions unclear, Duplicity on fire

[lightlessflame]

I don't wish to.

[lightlessflame]

If I had known more people like you back then, perhaps things would have been different.

[colorature]

a chiropteran queen to be exact
chiropterans are a species of vampire

[lightlessflame]

That's interesting. As far as I'm aware, vampires from my world don't have such variants.

[craftylikea]

I wish they had been. For your sake.
But that is very kind of you to say.

[colorature]

ive met lots of different kinds of vampires here
its much easier to call myself a vampire than anything else