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[pikuni]

Now, why would I go and do something like that? :-)

[ he wishes, honestly. ]

I didn’t, but it was a good welcome gift.

[ghostface]

'cause it's something i would've done.

( and his grandfather and his grandfather's grandfather. )

the house must've known you were coming, then, and set itself on fire to save you the trouble.

[pikuni]

I saw people say that it’s alive. Some things should burn in shame, so it’s good that it knows how to.

Did you set it on fire, Nephew?

[ghostface]

it is alive. it ain't a normal house. i'm sure it'll be up and running in no time, too, knowing the creepy ass balfours.

( those white people simply aren't right, more than most white people. )

if i had, i would've gotten more of my shit out first.

[pikuni]

You got what is most important out.

They look funny. Like fake people on TV. I haven’t gotten close enough to taste what they are in the air, though.

[ghostface]

( well, while they're on the topic, actually: )

what are you?

[pikuni]

[ annoyingly: ]

Blackfeet. :-)

[ghostface]

shoshone-paiute.

( he can do that, too, asshole. )

what are you really?

[pikuni]

I know that too :-). I could taste that on you. I could taste the other things in you too.

I read a napikwan book once that called what I am 'Vampyr.' But the details were a little wrong, like someone told someone the story of a Vampyr, and then they told five other people and then they told more people, and along the way the story changed. Or maybe the others like me aren't exactly like me.

[ghostface]

like what? a big great void?

( because that is the popular consensus. what's in danny johnson beyond the event horizon: a black tar pit. )

does napikwan mean white people? you ain't like the other vampires i've met if that's what you are. can you read mindread?

[pikuni]

I didn't smell a void in you :-O!

[ what he did taste, briefly, with his tongue and nose both: white-man father, grief in waves, and blood in slow drips like a lamb left to bleed out.]

Yes it does. No I can't. Though if I could I would probably lie about it.

My nose tells me things. My tongue tells me more. I saw your mother, and your father. I could taste spider on you. I have never tasted spider on anyone, before. I could taste you before I could see you :-).

[ghostface]

( everyone has that Weird Uncle, danny supposes. )

you know who turned you? the spider is like that for me, except i ain't a vampire.

( he's something else. )

i ain't a spider, either, before you ask.

[pikuni]

You're asking so many questions for someone who is avoiding me.

If you want to ask me questions, you have to do it by the fire. The way we would tell stories before. :-)

[ghostface]

( sulkily, ) i'm not avoiding you, but i don't know you, either. what about stranger danger? i'm a young and impressionable 26-year-old boy.

( practically an infant. )

[pikuni]

Practically a baby.

1/2

[ghostface]

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[ghostface]

( twenty-five minutes later: )

fine.
but if i come sit with you by the fire, i'm sucking your dick.

[pikuni]

Is that for me or for you?

[ghostface]

for me, obviously. you got it up well enough the last time, but you obviously weren't happy about it.

[pikuni]

It hasn’t done that in a long time. I don’t think my kind are supposed to. I had made peace with that.