Eight Krieg - Action/Phone

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[If he had been anyone else, the Major would've been considered lucky when he first arrived in Mayfield, considering he ended up in a home filled with other captives. And then that luck would have changed as, one by one, each of them was droned. For a lot of people, that would've been hard. For the Major, he didn't really regard the people or the

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I believe it.

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That would be the intelligent course of action.

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I felt it, ...their suffering.

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Oh?

And was it....unpleasant?

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[answered carefully, with a trace of contained excitement]

For them.

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[Oh, you can hear the small smile in his voice Slugger.]

One's pain is another's pleasure, hmmm?

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[A quiet giggle (more like an amused pant). On the off chance a tiny part of him doesn't completely agree, he's going to make sure you don't find out about it.]

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You know, we're not so different, you and I.

Where I'm from, there's even a word for the feeling. "Schadenfreude" - to feel pleasure in other people's pain.

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One difference.

You like to cause pain. I like to end it.

[And if you recall speaking to this boy months ago at the local butcher's shop, you'll know what he means by "end it".]

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And you end it without causing further pain?

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They're already in pain. What's a little more?

[But even then he knows the pain doesn't disappear entirely. Like energy, it's merely transfered.]

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[Just a bit more laughter.]

Tell me then. Which part of the escape you offer is it that you gain pleasure from?

Working on the escape, or the finished product of it? When you are delivering escape, or the fact that they have escaped?

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[He considers this.]

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Both. But the delivery is most thrilling.

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Then wouldn't you say the enjoyment does, indeed, come from causing pain?

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Partly.

[The rest comes from the power he gains from all the fear and rumors the crime generates. But that's more than you need to know, Major.]

Fear, too.

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Fear and pain tend to go hand in hand when we speak of human beings. It's just one of the interesting ways we're wired.