PRIVATE MEETINGS

[andexecutioner]

If you'd like to have a private meeting with the Adjudicator, this is where you should go! The Adjudicator is available at almost all hours of the day; just knock and he'll answer.

Comments are screened for privacy; no eavesdropping, that's rude.

Comments

[seventhprogenitor]

[i'm so sorry As promised, at some point during the... music party... Ferid's turning up with his favored viola in hand, inclining his head slightly to the Adjudicator.]

Anything you'd like to request?

[andexecutioner]

[You know, he isn't sure what he expected, but it probably should have been exactly this; at least it's not the accordion.

Juri's playing with...something between his fingers when Ferid comes in; looks like he's petting one of those stupid fuzzy caterpillars from the machine. That cat Ferid made is still sitting on the desk, though.]

Play me your favorite. Or one of your favorites, I'm sure you've got a lot.

[seventhprogenitor]

[Oh, no, the accordion's for when things get serious between them.

... And it would've been hard to excuse himself with that thing. It's a very eye-catching instrument, after all. Ferid laughs lightly, positioning himself rightly and flicking his hair back.]

Just because I've lived a long time? Even knowing that vampires have no interest outside of blood?

[Like, he's starting up Saint-Saens's Danse Macabre regardless, but still.]

There's a few pieces I've always found more amusing in meaning than others, of course, but favorites? [Mmm~.] I don't believe I've had an actual favorite since I was a human. So, so long ago.

[andexecutioner]

You seem more than a bit interested in coming to talk to me. Unless you're going to try to say that's also got to do with blood somehow.

[As usual, it's not pointed; just an observation.]

I'm not really into music, myself, so I can't say that I've got any favorites of my own. I don't hate it or anything, it's just not something I've done.

[seventhprogenitor]

[Well, maybe this one'll become his favorite, who can say.]

Oh, no, certainly not, my darling dear! Though I'm sure your blood is something worth savoring, I'm more interested in you above all! You make a vampire's heart beat again~.

[It's flippantly said, though, so. Who knows.]

[andexecutioner]

...I'm kind of a terrible person to be interested in.

[Again, more like an observation than actual dissuasion.]

It's not like we're going to gallivant off into the sunset or anything.

[seventhprogenitor]

I didn't take you for the shy type. Are you always so coy?

[It's more like Juri doesn't care one way or the other.]

[andexecutioner]

[...He kind of doesn't. Surprise!]

Coy's not the word most people would use.

[seventhprogenitor]

[Surprise!! Grow a feeling sometime, Juri!]

Most people don't see you as alluring in the first place, so they wouldn't understand your... muted charms. What sort of things have people said to your face, my lovely host?

[andexecutioner]

We don't usually talk about me in the same way you like to, so it's kind of hard to answer that.

[seventhprogenitor]

Mm, well, I wouldn't suppose any who hate you would come to chitchat as much as I do, so maybe it's only been pleasant words.

[Like, he wouldn't fight anyone for you, because that's a little above his pay grade, but he might toss in a barbed comment or two. Inconvenience them in some way.]

[andexecutioner]

It's not like I'd really tell you much otherwise, anyway. These conversations are confidential and all.

[seventhprogenitor]

What about them exactly is confidential? The people themselves, most likely, but are the topics?

[andexecutioner]

The topics should be fine, I guess.

[seventhprogenitor]

What sort of things have people asked you about, then?

[andexecutioner]

A few of the expected boring things about this place and how it works. Demands for stuff, sometimes. I was asked once if souls taste good.

Otherwise, people are really fixated on dating and also my cat.

[seventhprogenitor]

[Sounds like Tinder.]

I don't think anyone expects you to like a cat or toys. It's hard to make a monster out of someone when you know a thing or two about them like that, you know? It's why there's still some people who remain so confused about dear Sayaka and want to see the good in her, even if it may have all been just an act.

[... Poor Brady. Chances are there were parts of her that were genuine, of course, but from one actor to the next... Well, Ferid knows how deep that can go.]

[andexecutioner]

Oh, believe me, I'm well aware. And they're more than entitled to their opinion either way, but it's not like I consider myself a monster in the first place. So there's no point in keeping things like that from them.

[seventhprogenitor]

[Good thing no one will have a quarrel about if you're a monster or not by the next trial, huh.]

Not a monster, and yet you've taken someone's soul right in front of us?

[He's amused.]

You're simply a strange creature who likes cats and toys, true, humanoid as you are. I still haven't thought of what you could be yet. Do you think anyone'll guess right?

[andexecutioner]

[Hey, he's a perfectly average guy who doesn't fucking bleed, that's all.]

Do you think I'd confirm anything, even if they did?

[seventhprogenitor]

[Can't wait to ask him next week if he even has blood to be savored in that body of his.]

Doesn't it just matter if it'd be interesting to or not?

[andexecutioner]

That sort of thing usually isn't. I mean, it's probably different for you, but I've never really taken too much pleasure in it.

[seventhprogenitor]

Why not? Is it nothing all that special? Or do people have a lackluster reaction to it?

[andexecutioner]

Neither.

[seventhprogenitor]

You just don't get a thrill out of the usual things, do you.