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[shiningdown]

[When the device clicks on there is some silence muddled by the background noise of the forest at night, albeit a presently uneventful corner of it. Well, sort of. Then there is a breath, not quite a sigh or anything so quickly named, but a sound that can amount to a combination of distaste and upset.]There ought to be a law of some kind against

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[adamantined]

Severus used to -

[adamantined]

Sorry you had to be the one to find it.

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[shiningdown]

[shiningdown]

I wouldn't wish it on anyone else either.

Maybe it's better that I did rather than...

[She leaves actually saying that she has presently biased doubts that a normal person would have done right by it....to the category of Unsaid.]

audio;

[treadingdawn]

What happened?

audio;

[shiningdown]

Someone killed a unicorn. They---

For its horn, it would appear.

[Cold tone for everyone.]

audio;

[treadingdawn]

Its...

Did you see it happen?

audio;

[shiningdown]

No, or I would not be here alone.

[Never mind that Yvaine is not exactly the type able to restrain anyone through anything but her sometimes abrasive nature, but if she had seen it happen, she would have at least tried to catch the thing that did it at all. Success is not exactly certain, but she is angry enough right now to believe it might as well have been.

All of that is moot of course. She didn't see. But that's that.]

[candlejacked]

That's horrible!

[shiningdown]

I know.

[pause]

If it's anything...I think the death was quick.

[Or at least quicker than it could have been without the slit throat. Picturing it left to die from a shot to its side is somehow worse, though none of it is wanted.]

[candlejacked]

But to die at all is...

[shiningdown]

I know.

[2ndnightshift]

A unicorn? A real one?

[shiningdown]

Well...it was.

[2ndnightshift]

Oh. I'm-I'm sorry.

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[shiningdown]

[unseenprince]

Don't spare me any details.

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[shiningdown]

[shiningdown]

Why?

[unseenprince]

How do you know it was killed for other purposes.