Oh, that's alright! I'm not expecting charm! Oh, but speaking of Elda...
[That dampens his good mood a bit, though he doesn't pull away from Wesker.]
I did tell her I was staying at your place and she looked at me strangely. I didn't tell her anything more, though I suppose I probably should since she invited us both to Thanksgiving.
[...And then he just kind of keeps looking at Jaeger expectantly, like he is waiting for some sort of explanation of why the hell any of this is apparently an issue.]
It might be sort of awkward if we don't tell her we're dating. It'll probably be awkward even after we tell her, but it's most likely better to be upfront about it.
[He's used to lying his way through everything, but this seems like the sort of thing he should probably be honest about. Right?]
...The boat was a culmination of things, such that I'm fairly sure that explaining the boat out of context would just raise more questions than it answers.
[It's not worse out of context, though; not much is worse than what was actually happening on that boat.]
I have reason to believe that I was a bioterrorist in my past life. I specialized in viral warfare, specifically the sort that would induce rapid physical mutations and other alterations to organic matter, living or dead.
The incident on the boat was the result of one of my pet projects back then.
[ She's not crazy about his wording, but to cut in on semantics would be petty at this point. So instead she... just settles in to listen, pressing her lips together so as to not say anything.
...There was a woman that I was with at the time, her name was Excella Gionne. She...loved me, I believe, though I don't remember feeling anything but mild disdain for her, if I felt anything at all. She wanted to see my projects through, however, and that was all that mattered, as far as I was concerned.
When the time to see everything come to an end was near, I infected her with the virus I had been working on for...some time at that point, I can't say how long. I threw her out on deck to stop a pair of people that were becoming an inconvenience for me, knowing that her body was incompatible with it and it would overtake her before long.
[ Holy shit. Her eyes do widen briefly, naked shock coming onto her features and for a moment she is thankful for the fact that Wesker can't see as well in the dark as she can. Even if they are under street lights and park lamps now, but... she reigns it in quick enough, crossing her hands together in her lap. She looks intently at the man, keeping eye contact as best she can after that initial shock.
... The thing of it is. Wow. ]
... Ah, Albert. That must've been a horrifying experience.
[That's not going to be a fun conversation at all.]
Good luck. You're probably right though, I doubt there will be any point to talk about this. We can work out who would be best to tell her later, I think.
It's one of the many reasons that I tend to agree with those that post to the network sometimes, insisting that they deserve to have remained dead for what they did in their past life.
[And that much is blunt and straightforward and most of all devoid of much tone; it's just blank, in a way that doesn't leave much room for debate.
He'd asked himself what people think they deserve; this is his own answer to that.]
I'm not particularly looking forward to the conversation with her. She does seem to agree with you, though, on the notion that I don't deserve to die for what happened. At least for now.
[...Just...give him a moment. He hasn't even told Jaeger this part, so...]
...I still don't understand the full scope of what I managed to do, or my methods behind most of it. I do know that I was involved in some sort of shell game spanning multiple continents - the only place I don't recall causing some sort of problem was Australia. Last I knew with regards to numbers, seven hundred fifty million were dead due to my actions.
... What - no, okay, squeezing her hands together a little more and she bites her lip and nods a little. One man can kill that many people? Is that even possible? ]
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