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Aren't you a manticore...?

[He responds with deadpan sarcasm in the face of Red starting to growl. By all accounts she was an animal right now...!! But that wasn't the point. He's back to looking serious on a dime.]

If you won't tell me the truth, then I can't make you. [He looks grumpy, but unperturbed.] But it sounds like... you already know dangerous it is to not eat.

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That doesn't mean I'm a beast.

[She glowers.]

You want me to admit I ate her? That I got hungry and decided some octopus sounded good? Is that what you want me to say?

[It's more or less a confession but there's agitation in her words, in the small movements of her tail and wings. ] I don't lose control. If I got a bit snappish then... then oh well! I'm not going to go on a rampage.

[Red you ate your friend.]

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[It was as good as admitting it that he was going to get, he figures; which wasn't bad, it was pretty clear from the way she was getting so defensive.]

Obviously you do! Monsters here can go into some kind of berserk rampage if they don't eat for too long! [He crosses his arms over his chest, blessedly solid.]

I want you to admit because you're obviously lying, and now Nanami's lying for you too. Because you lying means you're not eating, which means you're just gonna hurt more people-- and I know you don't want that, and she knows you didn't want that even though she got hurt!

cw: p....pstd flashback and self loathing

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So what's new? I get too sad, too stressed, too tired, I go berserk--now throw 'hungry' on top of that now, too! Ain't nothing I haven't dealt with before.

[She snaps loudly. Those are words she doesn't want to admit--the fact that she winces quickly after means, well. She didn't mean to say them at all. There's a wince. A memory of blood, of salt water, of fish and--

Dearest sister?]

I don't want to eat humans. I don't care if someone else killed them, either. A Blood Maiden has to protect them! That's their job! If I can't even do that anymore then-- [Why was she there?] If all I have to do is grit my teeth and bear it then fine.

[She should be a monster hunter. She should turn her fangs and claws against the others but she can't do that, either. It was easier when all she had to do was master herself.]

[recuttal]

[So what, she was already... used to this sort of thing? Having to deal with this sort of thing? His eyes widen in surprise for a moment-- it's not like Hinata hadn't come here and had to deal with so much stuff that he was too used to. Though that doesn't exactly assuage his worries. What the hell even were Blood Maidens...?]

Red-- [He jerks a step closer when she winces, though he's not really sure how to assuage a giant cat, or if it'd even be welcome. Cats were usually more touchy.... ]

Red, that doesn't-- whatever you were before, it doesn't matter anymore! [His voice rises a bit through no attempt of his own, but it's like he has to be firm about it, because it's suddenly some deep-seated need that she listens.]

Before coming here I-- I was a real monster, not just some folklore creature or cryptid. But none of that has anything to do with what I do here! Even if it was your job to protect them before, it doesn't-- it can't matter anymore. And gritting your teeth against it just means you're gonna hurt them worse when you finally snap! Either way, someone's going to die...!