008. - video

[temerate]

[ Yurine has the recorder again, since Eko's on a rooftop again somewhere in the casino district from the faint noises and lights, patiently emptying the bullets out of the chamber of a small handgun. Its former owner is sprawled motionless and half-hanging off the roof edge next to Eko, throat ripped out. There is, of course, blood all over Eko's mouth, licked away absently as he pockets the bullets and quite calmly crushes the gun. He either doesn't know or doesn't care that Yurine is filming him, and speaks without looking at her. ]

It has been some time, hasn't it. Too long a silence is often the sign of departure. Perhaps I was remiss, if I'd but kept a closer eye on him...

[ softer, even regretful ]

But that is no guarantee either.

I will miss the sound of his voice. And the taste of him. Unfortunate, to have been such a rare sweetness.

[ Pause. After a long moment he kicks the body off the roof edge like so much garbage, and looks sternly at Yurine and the camera. ]

Turn that off. We've work to do for those that are left.

[ Click. ]

Comments

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

[ so mildly ]

He thought to murder me. Should I have held still for him?

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

What are you talking about? He attacked you first?

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

That's correct. A thief, perhaps. Or the type of man who simply enjoys taking victims by surprise in dark alleys.

Ah. Enjoyed.

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

--That doesn't excuse anything. You didn't have to.

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

Nor did he.

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

...

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

Why dost thee care so for their lives?

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

Because... someone needs to.

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

And thee cares nothing for my life, hm?

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

That's not fair.

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

There is little that is fair in this world.

...Yamamoto is gone.

[voice]; keywords :|

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

...

I'm sorry. But... I don't think he would have wanted you to start murdering the other people here.

[voice]; so disapproving, ganta

[temerate.livejournal.com]

He was a killer as well, Igarashi Ganta.

[voice]; kind of :|

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

[Hold on-- he knows that name.]

...He wasn't a vampire, was he?

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

No.

He was human.

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

[Confusing for tyb!Yamamoto baww]

How do you know he was a killer?

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

I drank of him. He and I were...

[ well that really doesn't matter, does it ]

We had an understanding. And he was more than the person he presented himself as on the network.

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

...

I guess that happens a lot.

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

That someone should have a life beyond your personal understanding of them?

I should hope so.

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

That's not what I meant.

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

Isn't it.

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

--Never mind. You wouldn't get it anyway.

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

Do enlighten me.

[voice]

[cachaemic.livejournal.com]

...I was talking about the way everyone keeps secrets. You can't trust anything you see.

[voice]

[temerate.livejournal.com]

That applies to thee, as well.