YOU LAUGHED WHEN I DIED

[Mouse]

YOU LAUGHED WHEN I DIED, BUT THE FUNNY THING IS

THAT WHEN I CAME BACK, NOBODY WAS LAUGHING ANYMORE.

I DON'T GET IT. I THOUGHT IT WAS SO FUNNY, TO WATCH IT

PIERCE

MY

SKULL

DID YOU NOT THINK IT WAS FUNNY? PERSONALLY, I THOUGHT IT WAS HILARIOUS. HE THOUGHT IT WAS VERY FUNNY TOO. WE HAD A GOOD CHUCKLE ABOUT IT.

YOU KNOW.

AFTER IT KILLED ME, THAT IS.

(but did i really die?)

IT'S ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU WONDER, REALLY, IN THE END,

(i do that a lot now)

WAS IT FUNNY? OR WERE YOU LAUGHING BECAUSE

(it was a little funny)

you really aren't as good a bunch of people as you think you are?

(we already knew this though)

it's okay. i'm not a good person either.

(sometimes i pretend i am)

but the difference is that i don't pretend to be a good person. no, i acknowledge i'm a bad person.

i talked to ysayl the other day. she's a nice woman. aside from trying to set me on fire and kill me. i bet she was laughing too.

she says that she doesn't want to kill me, but in the same breath, uses athelios' purging flames to try and fix me. to kill me.

i bet she watched as i died and was silently thankful for one less headache.

it's okay. i would be too.

at this point i don't even know what i want.

he fell asleep. he doesn't listen to me anymore. he doesn't call for me anymore. he doesn't talk to me anymore. he doesn't want me anymore. he doesn't love me anymore.

business, he said. not pleasure.

i bet he laughed when i died.

just like you did

but nobody is laughing now

nobody except for me, that is.




i think i laughed when i died, too.