[Neither seem particularly bothered by her slip, though the younger one, Bruce, has quite the poker face, she's not entirely sure.]
[She looks down at the symbol. She's not up on her mythology. Ouroburos to her means hackers, cyber warfare, that job in Ukraine where she'd worn a scratchy black wig and painted her eyelids neon green. Knowledge of a subculture that had been hard to fake, but a death that had been easy as spiking an energy drink and watching a hacker choke on his own vomit. He'd gone on twitching for so long. Talking about drugs, that had been a good one.]
[It takes her a moment, but eventually she refocuses on the subject at hand. Pokes the snake symbol with the toe of her boot.] Round and round it goes. [It feels laid out for them, like a music box, waiting to be opened, like they've stepped inside of a film, or a ghost's looped recreation of its final moments.]
If we're seeing what happened to Beacon, then where are the people that it happened to? The ones who scratched up the walls and painted this on the floor? [She looks up at the walls, at the candles clustering around them.] Isn't that why you light candles? For the dead?
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[She looks down at the symbol. She's not up on her mythology. Ouroburos to her means hackers, cyber warfare, that job in Ukraine where she'd worn a scratchy black wig and painted her eyelids neon green. Knowledge of a subculture that had been hard to fake, but a death that had been easy as spiking an energy drink and watching a hacker choke on his own vomit. He'd gone on twitching for so long. Talking about drugs, that had been a good one.]
[It takes her a moment, but eventually she refocuses on the subject at hand. Pokes the snake symbol with the toe of her boot.] Round and round it goes. [It feels laid out for them, like a music box, waiting to be opened, like they've stepped inside of a film, or a ghost's looped recreation of its final moments.]
If we're seeing what happened to Beacon, then where are the people that it happened to? The ones who scratched up the walls and painted this on the floor? [She looks up at the walls, at the candles clustering around them.] Isn't that why you light candles? For the dead?