04/voice

[flightlessbird]

We have found the— [ A pause, and quieter, to the side: "What is the word?" A heavy sigh from further off, which sounds kinda like Loki. "It is vandal." ] —Vandals! Who ruined things. We found them, even though Roslyn would not help.

I have named them stump for hands, because stump means not to have a hand. [ she sounds so pleased with her own cleverness. ]

If anyone needs to find and punish someone, then you should ask Loki. He is very good at it.

[ And in the back again, from Loki: ] But not without a price.

Comments

[skirtcladgunner]

There are better ways of punishing people. Ones that don't involve cutting hands off. Why couldn't you have locked them up somewhere for a while or something like that?

[flightlessbird]

I did not want to lock them somewhere. They did worse than that.

[skirtcladgunner]

Let me ask you something: what they ruined--was it permanently ruined?

[flightlessbird]

That is ruined forever? Yes. [ nevermind that none of it was actually hers ] All of it.

[skirtcladgunner]

[...]

But you can rebuild things, and make new things too. You can't make or rebuild hands. What they did was shitty, but who really did more damage here?

[flightlessbird]

But now they know not to break things.

[skirtcladgunner]

That's not the point. Them losing their hands for breaking things? Yeah, that isn't an even payback by a long shot.