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Ulla ([personal profile] neverwaitslong) wrote2025-03-29 09:04 pm
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[personal profile] onlyhearmusic 2023-11-29 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
When he arrived, Collins gave a knock on her door out of etiquette but he let himself in since she was expecting him. He paused briefly on the threshold to glance around the surroundings. There wasn't much to see other than the bit of sand for him to stand on and the water in which the sea witch occupied. He noted the towel on the sand near the water's edge and headed to stand behind it.

He stared at her silently for a good moment, expression unreadable. However, it was clear by looking at him that he was not feeling well. His eyes were dark and sunken from lack of sleep and there was a tension in his body already present simply from walking into her room.

"Well then," he said with a drawl on top of his usual cadence. "Ain't this quite tha arrangement fer ya."

Edited 2023-11-29 23:41 (UTC)
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[personal profile] onlyhearmusic 2023-11-30 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
"Hmm," he mused tonelessly. A sound that still irritated him to produce, and of course the reason he was here. He stared impassively at her a little longer.

"No reason beatin' around tha bush, is there. I know yer waitin' fer something--whether it's me or that useless twit of a warden assigned ta keep watch over me--don't really matter." His eyes narrowed dangerously. "But tha point of tha matter is I've damn well had enough. You don't know-"

He started and then stopped abruptly. It wasn't as if she would be the first he told, but it always got him strange reactions whenever he talked about it. And it wasn't as if he didn't know how it sounded to others: a little bit insane. Yet it was what it was, and he damn well didn't have a problem with it so much as it could cause problems letting others know the extent of it. His lips pressed into a thin line briefly before he continued.

"-how impossible it is fer me ta avoid music."
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[personal profile] onlyhearmusic 2023-11-30 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
Collins cocked his head to the side in interested curiosity as Ulla spoke of herself. Unfortunately the bit was broken as soon as she mentioned the final point about his actions.

"Lass, it's me job ta kill people. You act like three people mean a lot in a sea of dead--by my hand, by old age, by suicide--it don't matter how. Everyone fuckin' dies. Bein' here ain't gonna change that. This is temporary, ain't it? Ain't it!? So what fuckin' point does it matter ta be here!"

He knew he had lost the point as soon as he began his spiel but he couldn't help it. Once the words started he couldn't get them to stop. He was so fucking tired and pissed off with every little thing. And this was no little thing!

His hands were made into fists at his sides. He huffed out a portion of air and attempted to reign in his temper. Thin, he knew, always thin it was these days. Worse even more now that he was stuck here in this fucking place. The tension didn't leave him but he managed to uncurl his hands in a show of control.

"Yer a composer. That's fantastic. I love it, I really do. But do ya hear tha music all tha time? Or can ya turn it off, lass? Can ya?"
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[personal profile] onlyhearmusic 2023-12-15 11:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"And it will always be me choice! You people think that's goin' ta change because I'm here? How do you expect ta change tha nature of a wolf? A predator who lives fer tha hunt. I'm no dog, lass. I ain't gonna chew on toys and ever be content like some fuckin' house pet. I'm gonna thrash and make a mess of tha whole house till ya set me free, out in tha wild, where I belong."

He let out a huff of air.

"Do ya prefer me ta lie to ya? Ya keep me a ghost, and ya end tha the music curse, and I'll pretend ta be a fuckin' dog instead of a wolf if that's what ya want. But it will only last as long as I'm stuck here. And if ya keep that music curse on me," he said with a deliberate hardness, two fingers pointing at her, "I will find a way ta make everyone miserable here. One way or another."
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[personal profile] onlyhearmusic 2024-01-08 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
"Then send me back ta die! I'll take that choice if'n it's given. I'll take that end."

That was never a threat to him. He would rather be dead than here. But even that option was taken from him in this place. He wasn't even given that choice.

"I ain't broken. But you people can't see that. Because I don't conform ta yer picture of tha world so all ya see is somethin' wrong. And that's fine but I ain't broken because I was never like any of you ta begin with."