'It's done' is right. Billie knows better than to dwell on it for too long, although this time around, she isn't as sure how easily she can move on. She's killed people before, obviously. It's something she likes to do. This, though, this was different. That hadn't been an assassin; a monster, more like, than anything else.
It's rattling to look back on, trying to make sense of the parts that all blur together. Daud won't have to dig for his answers but he will have to tolerate another silence, although she does finally look up again, just not towards him. She's tracking something in the sky. A bird, flying in, and that means Deirdre makes her appearance at last, in front of the steps and making the usual rude seabird noises at Billie.
Daud may not chide her but the animas is of a different opinion.
That at least gives Billie some relief, seeing her show up.
"Took you long enough," she complains right back at her but that's as far as she's interested in taking whatever little argument they're having. It happens mostly over whatever odd connection they have, forever unheard by Daud. Deirdre settles and turns her head to eye the tiefling and whatever else she must have said has Billie pursing her lips, looking thoughtful for a moment. She still won't look up at Daud but, apparently, after the little back-and-forth between her and her animas, she'll sigh and settle on going over it like any other report she's made, trying to sound as detached from the subject matter as she can manage.
"I decided to take advantage of the situation and deal with a few people who needed to be dealt with," she says, not entirely unlike Daud's plan to go after Koroc. It just happened to be more inclusive. "Most of them were from the Defenders. Some weren't. I know my original reason for it was to try and clear out Koroc's support but by the time I realized the sound really was affecting me, I couldn't stop. It became more about proving something than actually getting the job done."
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It's rattling to look back on, trying to make sense of the parts that all blur together. Daud won't have to dig for his answers but he will have to tolerate another silence, although she does finally look up again, just not towards him. She's tracking something in the sky. A bird, flying in, and that means Deirdre makes her appearance at last, in front of the steps and making the usual rude seabird noises at Billie.
Daud may not chide her but the animas is of a different opinion.
That at least gives Billie some relief, seeing her show up.
"Took you long enough," she complains right back at her but that's as far as she's interested in taking whatever little argument they're having. It happens mostly over whatever odd connection they have, forever unheard by Daud. Deirdre settles and turns her head to eye the tiefling and whatever else she must have said has Billie pursing her lips, looking thoughtful for a moment. She still won't look up at Daud but, apparently, after the little back-and-forth between her and her animas, she'll sigh and settle on going over it like any other report she's made, trying to sound as detached from the subject matter as she can manage.
"I decided to take advantage of the situation and deal with a few people who needed to be dealt with," she says, not entirely unlike Daud's plan to go after Koroc. It just happened to be more inclusive. "Most of them were from the Defenders. Some weren't. I know my original reason for it was to try and clear out Koroc's support but by the time I realized the sound really was affecting me, I couldn't stop. It became more about proving something than actually getting the job done."