"I just told you why," Julien said. "And now you're just attacking me personally because even though I followed the vein of the examples you yourself gave, you can't take it just because my choice happens to cut a touch too close to home so you assume I'm trying to hurt you. If you wa...

"One in particular comes to mind, but that comes later. See, the only thing you've done so far is make the most basic points you possibly can and inflate their true meaning into something deformed. So what if there's always a reason? Reason is malleable, process alike." Julien gestured tow...

"That's so, hm? Well, good on you, Valerija, you murdered someone who you openly admit did fuck all to deserve it except be inconvenient. I'd give you a medal, but I didn't bring any and you'd have to settle for a participation award anyway." Julien gave her a round of light clapping for a...

"You aren't the only person I'm talking to though, are you now?" If it wasn't something that could be said in kind, Julien would have thought it a little too dismissive; but that wasn't the case, and he had enough suppositions to worry about as it was. "And who says it's restraint any...

Julien laughed. "Well, have it your way then, Valerija. Thank you for further proving my point." Juliette had moved that much further away from him, it seemed. Good for her, really. And it gave him more space to lean back a little, even, which he promptly did. His hands stayed behind his b...

"Oh, I don't think it would be an accident if she did use it. I'd assume she knows that much about guns at the least, and yet there it is pointed at me." Juliette was behind him relative to their guest, whose problem was most certainly with him, so he turned to face Valerija. It wouldn't c...

"That he did," he said. "I figure it was a mercy for him." A few days was more than enough time for someone's condition to worsen horribly, whatever way such a thing wound up coming to pass. "Camilla, ah... she talked about Declyn a lot sometimes. Nothing ever left me with t...

"Oh, I know. I actually came across Marco on the day I was shot. For essentially being a Mad Max villain, he was remarkably civil about the whole thing." It hadn't struck him as odd at the time and still didn't, really, when Julien thought about it. Whatever form the madness took, whether ...

"Alright." Julien took her rejection of his offer in stride and would say no more about it; if she wanted to let it stay up in the air, that was just fine. She did look quite alright when compared to him, as it went, which brought to mind the idea that she thought he was being condescendin...

"Well, if it isn't a sight for sore eyes." [ Julien Leblanc continued from C'est La Vie . ] "Though," Julien stepped out into view by the riverside, "I think I'm a little better dressed for a date with death than you are, Juliette. Got some help putting on a few more of the,...

It wasn't really possible for him to measure how much time passed before he left, with the pain and the bleach leaving him light-headed and smearing a dull blur over his thoughts. Another maiming on the list, and yet all Ivy had really managed was to do the shittiest thing possible. Simply running a...

"He… fuck," another glob of blood spat out into the grass. Those kicks hadn't broken anything, but Ivy had made a concerted effort to, he'd give her that, and it did hurt alright. He was just too much for how weakened she was, and he'd been through worse anyway. "You aren't always goi...

"Proud? You think I'm proud of any of this shit?" It was right about then that Ivy actually showed up and did something, and so Julien turned around to be greeted by a faceful of... whatever it was, he couldn't really say he cared, because it burned like nothing fucking else and he was too...

"See, if I am what you say I am, why didn't I do it? There would have been absolutely nothing in my way, so I could have just broken her in half easily. But no, here she is, wherever the hell 'here' currently is for her, lurking around and mostly intact. So come on. Answer me." It was a ni...

"Whew... it's no wonder Blaise liked you. You are truly a master at ignoring reality to hear what you want to. And none of this is about me, so whatever you think of me honestly doesn't matter." He could have said any number of things in a pointless attempt to be petty at this point, but h...