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I've murdered half the town.
WHO| Wesker and OTA
WHAT| Wandering/Resting
WHERE| The Haunted Mansion Graveyard
WHEN| The Night of the Cornucopia
WARNINGS/NOTES| It's Wesker. That should be warning enough. Note wise, he'll be making his way to Tomorrowland and his powers soon, so if anybody wants a chat at time when he'll be less likely to kill you, now's your chance.
His ribs were broken.
Using ones own hands to determine which was an inexact science, but if he had to guess, numbers eight and nine - the vertebrochondral, the false - on his left side.
He treated the knowledge clinically as his flesh burned - every breath, each and every step, a heated stab of pain that raced across his chest and back. A message from his body to his mind - we are injured - and nothing more. It would not stop him. He would not dwell. He needed only to find the location of power in this arena - surely there would be one - and he would be back on track. It would all once more be as it should.
In the meantime, it was a mere complication. An extra step. He accepted it as such and deferred to it, as he would any other hurdle they might throw his way.
Lingering in a graveyard, he sheltered beneath the outstretched wing of a faux-concrete angel. His nostrils flared to catch the light breeze as he listened to the night and counted the slow-even beats of his own heart.
WHAT| Wandering/Resting
WHERE| The Haunted Mansion Graveyard
WHEN| The Night of the Cornucopia
WARNINGS/NOTES| It's Wesker. That should be warning enough. Note wise, he'll be making his way to Tomorrowland and his powers soon, so if anybody wants a chat at time when he'll be less likely to kill you, now's your chance.
His ribs were broken.
Using ones own hands to determine which was an inexact science, but if he had to guess, numbers eight and nine - the vertebrochondral, the false - on his left side.
He treated the knowledge clinically as his flesh burned - every breath, each and every step, a heated stab of pain that raced across his chest and back. A message from his body to his mind - we are injured - and nothing more. It would not stop him. He would not dwell. He needed only to find the location of power in this arena - surely there would be one - and he would be back on track. It would all once more be as it should.
In the meantime, it was a mere complication. An extra step. He accepted it as such and deferred to it, as he would any other hurdle they might throw his way.
Lingering in a graveyard, he sheltered beneath the outstretched wing of a faux-concrete angel. His nostrils flared to catch the light breeze as he listened to the night and counted the slow-even beats of his own heart.
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But for now she seemed to be in the clear. She slowed her pace to a walk passing in front of what appeared to be a graveyard when she felt a familiar stiffness in her joints. Curious she glanced down at her hand and sure enough it was turning a shade of grey. It was completely natural for her to shift it back. But it gave her some comfort to know that at least some things were how they were supposed to be.
And more importantly, it gave her an idea. She turned her gaze to the graveyard and slowed her pace examining it slowly. She had yet to see the man by the angel but she would soon enough with how she was looking around.
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Beneath the wing of the angel, his lip curled. Children.
All that screaming and crying... Rarely did he have the patience for them, even on the best of occasions.
He watched her eyes track across the graveyard, face turning this way and that, and when she finally spotted him, he sneered - boo - as his eyes flashed red.
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"Don't DO that!" She shouted in surprise feeling her heart race a mile a minute.
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Had her skin just changed color? Texture? Or was it perhaps just a trick of the light and shadow?
"Wandering a graveyard a night what do you expect, but a few surprises?" he asked dryly.
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She kept her distance though, she'd seen clips of him from the last arena and knew above all he was dangerous. A killer. But there was enough distance between them she could outpace him if he came after her.
...she hoped.
"So were you just lurking back there hoping to scare someone?" She called tightening the strap on her bag securing it.
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He frowned.
"Oh, yes. Because I couldn't possibly have any better way to spend my time than to wait here for unsuspecting children to come wandering past."
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It wasn't after all, all that different from Umbrella. No, they hadn't televised it, and they'd used home-grown clones rather than strangers, but what was the difference really? At the end of the day, they'd still been up to their thighs in fresh corpses.
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"So you're another one who's totally on board with this stupid game?"
She wasn't going to be winning any support from sponsors with talk like that, in fact she wondered how much of what she said was edited out but she was having a hard time "playing the game" Even after watching Momoko rise victorious with that attitude.
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Not when he could purr a lie as easily as he did the truth.
"The rules are straight-forward, and the results... temporary." His head tipped. "If it gets one out, I see no reason not to play along."
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"How many of these have you done?"
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He should have been victorious already. It should have been him in that throne....
His nostrils flared, sucking in a long, calming breath.
Soon, he reminded himself. So he'd miscalculated before, but he wouldn't make those mistakes again.
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"How? I mean...I'm no threat but you're at least scary. And the girl who won last time was like...a princess or whatever." It baffled her enough that she was willing to ignore her instincts telling her to run.
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How off guard he'd been. How surprised.
He should have expected it. It's what he would have done afterall - what he had done to Project Alice.
"In its own way. After all, each new arena provides new opportunities."
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"Do you think maybe the people in charge rigged it so you couldn't win?" She had heard how much control they had over the environment.
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"If they have, they're going to have to try harder."
Albert Wesker had become the man he was - chairman of Umbrella, defacto presidnet of what remained of the United States - by being easily detterred. He would win, sooner or later, and they would pay.
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"So what happens once someone's out of the game? Like that Momoko girl? Do they just send us home? Or do we have to live here?"
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Though not all in the same capacity. The first, that red-headed woman, was not the darling the others were.
While he could guess, Wesker still hadn't been able to discover just what she'd done to have her tongue cut out.
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"So we're screwed. One way or another so long as those guys are in charge." Same crap, different world.
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"I would suggest," he said finally. Pointedly. The choice of words purposeful. "You make yourself at home."
Almost... helpful, for the man that was Wesker. If one knew him, if one was really listening.
He wasn't sure what possessed him to say it, why he bothered... but he wasn't much for regrets, and she hadn't run screaming into the night yet - which was likely as much stupidity as bravery - so, perhaps she'd earned it.
A grudging leniency. ...Or a stay of judgment at the very least.
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"Well..." She reasoned with a sigh, "It's not like my world was that great to start with. Might as well get used to how crappy this one is." It was depressing, but it's what everyone successful seemed to be telling her.
"Thanks...and also for not like, killing me yet." It seemed like something worth mentioning. Because they both knew he could.
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He intended to win, so others would have to die. Some he would enjoy (Aunamee), others would simply be necessary (Chris), but he not hesitate over any of them should they cross his path at the end.