032 - West's so jittery right now...

[major_west]

BOLLOCKS! My legs itch!

So, everybody's back to normal. Oh. Good. Great. Yeah.

Skinny dipping with-- What an awful ordeal that was. At least it's over now, all's well, and we're back to our proper... selves.

[Private to the Marquis]
You're a bloke again, yeah?

Comments

[major-west.livejournal.com]

No, I'd just prefer it if you didn't respond to everything with some condescending variation of "of course".

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

And my tone can be inferred?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

In the context of a conversation, the words say enough. Being, you know, words.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

My goodness, what a vivid imagination you must have.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

...oh, piss off already!

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

Most assuredly, you have quite a temper.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Being dead and turning into a vacuous tart for a few days has made my fuse much shorter than it used to be.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

...You're dead, you say?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Yes. Very, very dead.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

...I see.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I presume you are, too.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

Not to my knowledge.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

If you're an Inmate, then you're dead. It's quite simple.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

I think I might have noticed something like that.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Evidently, you didn't.

Personally, I remember my death vividly. Some of the others don't.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

Perhaps there's a reason why some of you share this delusion of dying.

Are you in a cult of some sort?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

What? Of course I'm not.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

Hm. It must be a mental disorder.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I'm not insane, either, alright? I was killed by an Infected and woke up here. End of story.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

...Have you considered my original theory that we may be infected, and are being held here under quarantine?

Perhaps we are immune?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Infection takes hold of one in under a minute where I'm from.

Besides... I don't-- I didn't get any blood in... I mean, I don't think I did--

Oh, what does it matter? I'm dead. The infection doesn't touch the dead.

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

It takes twenty-four hours, so far as I know.

Immunity, however, would mean no reanimation. Typhoid Mary, if you will.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Reanimation?

[redeker-plan.livejournal.com]

Yes. Reanimation, once the body has ceased to function in the twenty-third hour.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

There was no reanimation during Infection.

...at least, not with the strain I encountered.