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"Cigarette? Like tobacco?"
"...What are you, eighty?"
People are still presumed innocent, at least on paper-
But by the time they're in cuffs, there's hardly any shadows of doubt left.
Because this whole world's lit-up. Mapped-out. Never unknown and Always Online.
...There is music on? That's great. I love music.
Practicing expressions and memorizing lines and...
And trying to get *something* to take root and grow despite knowing it'd have *nothing* to feed on.
...Stupid.
"No. Not you. On the world."
I exist in the world. Do not point a gun at me.
"Hitting the bullseye at the shooting range is 'good shooting.'"
"Doing it six times in a row is *great*."
"...But shooting six *people* with accuracy like that...?"
'...It's a whole different beast.'
"Takes a certain kind of monster—a real *freak*."
Killing your girlfriend or her look-alikes usually is, if nothing else, a lot less...sterile.
If you ask me.
"Hitting the bullseye at the shooting range is 'good shooting.'"
"Doing it six times in a row is *great*."
"...But shooting six *people* with accuracy like that...?"
'...It's a whole different beast.'
"Takes a certain kind of monster—a real *freak*."
Now I have to meet her over there and prove to her I fit in, that I'm normal like them.
Practicing expressions and memorizing lines and...
And trying to get *something* to take root and grow despite knowing it'd have *nothing* to feed on.
...Stupid.
And pointless. Spending hours in front of a TV or laying in bed staring at your phone...
Watching stupid movies and trying to papier-mâché an ill-fitted mask of humanity out of the scraps you could tear out of magazines.
Trying to be... something more.
Trying to be something at all.
Or anything other than what you are.
You were just born wrong.
Not your fault, necessarily.
...If it were up to me, you'd get points for trying.
Killing your girlfriend or her look-alikes usually is, if nothing else, a lot less...sterile.
If you ask me.
"Hitting the bullseye at the shooting range is 'good shooting.'"
"Doing it six times in a row is *great*."
"...But shooting six *people* with accuracy like that...?"
'...It's a whole different beast.'
"Takes a certain kind of monster—a real *freak*."
one of my ancestors was named dexter but i don't think that's related to my thing
one of my ancestors was named dexter but i don't think that's related to my thing