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[jawstheme]

PLACEHOLDERS GONNA PLACEHOLD

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/ferociously pops cherry

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[ Look at what a nice little human she's being and waiting until after sundown to call you, Jerry. ]

a role most reversed

[jawstheme]

[Little does she know he's still shaking dirt off himself.]

Hello?

what cherries of mine have you popped...

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[ Gross. Take a shower, Bitey. ]

Morning. [ Something thinks she's funny. ] I have a question for you.

aria's vampire cherry gosh

[jawstheme]

[There's a soft 'hum' before he continues on doing what he does in his secret little home.]

What is it?

[Who needs to announce or ask for names when you can tell by the voice alone?]

oh right that

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[ Ariadne sort of figured he'd be able to tell. ]

Do you know what a chiropteran is?

[ Apparently it just means a mammal like a bat, but if Jerry's aware that some vampires just walk around calling themselves that, she'd be interested in hearing what he can add. ]

[jawstheme]

[Hard to tell if he's playing dumb or not when on the phone.]

A dinosaur. The jurassic period.

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[ Long. Pause. ]

Kind of a weird thing for a guy claiming to be a vampire to call himself, then.

[jawstheme]

Maybe it's part of his religion. Cults will do that to you.

[SHRUG.]

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He bit off his finger.

Then he put it back on.

[ Then Ariadne turned a bit green. ]

[jawstheme]

...Right in front of you? That's no way to treat a girl.

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Over video.

Then again, he also told me to add decapitations when I was sketching at the spring festival.

[jawstheme]

Is he bothering you?

[Semi-serious tone here only because friends look out or friends, right?]

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Is it bothering if he creeps around the bar at your birthday and teaches you how to stab people on the not-Titanic and then holds the picture he finds of you up so you can't reach it?

[ Is that a question that really needs to be asked, Ariadne? ]

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[ Right after this comes a text. Typos are a direct result of Ariadne's now-shaking hands. ]

changd mymind. def a stalker.

[jawstheme]

what did he do

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found me in th labyrinth. said my entrails would be better thn thread, had his arms around me + grip on my wrist, literally knocked me off my feet. there were def lips in my hair.

[jawstheme]

how'd you escape

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idk but i'm not certain he's not watching me rn anyway, said hed be a whistle away

apparently he likes the frisky ones

[jawstheme]

are you out now

[Nevermind that he can probably track her the same way that other bat did.]

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no. still lost. considering trying to climb up this wall, if it's an actual wall.

[jawstheme]

just stay where you are right now

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sure.

[ A minute or so later: ]

wait what?

[jawstheme]

[The sound of someone moving through the maze closer to Ariadne is no imaginary thing. That he can't be seen yet just adds to the mystery. Is it Karl again? Is it something else? A minotaur?]

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[ Whatever it is, it has her looking up, the throwing knife she'd been wiping clean on her pants suddenly ready to be thrown. She doesn't say anything, just waits. ]

[jawstheme]

[The sound, close to a rush of air and clamoring grows closer, first from the left, then from the right. It's as if there are two of them in there with her, but it's really just Jerry. When he finally emerges it's by a hand pulling at the edge of the wall. Check out this feat of athleticism, he's scaling the damn thing for her.]

Ariadne? Is that you?

[No shit it's her, he can smell her.]