[She laughs, too. Also, Harrow suspects Sheila is only telling her about the nasty ones, but let's be clear - she also wouldn't care if Sheila was eating the corpses of people she liked. It's not like they're using it anymore.]
I just have gotten the impression a few times that executions are somehow different. If they aren't providing you corpses from that, that's good to know.
[No negative reaction to the fact that Sheila ate Eleanor.]
. . . Do you mind if I ask how you first came to eat corpses? It's so interesting. Cannibalism is a viable necromantic technique; they practice it on the Third House, though it's fallen out of common use in recent centuries. A Third House necro I know used to go around biting pieces off her cavalier if she needed some extra juice.
[It could have been Misa, too. But, eh. Whoever it was, they weren't using that body anymore.]
Well... You know I'm undead. At first, when I had just died, I could get by with animal meat. But then... my co-worker attacked me, so I ate like, only a third of him? Which was such a fucking waste. Past-Sheila was not a bright gal. [THE FOOD WASTE... She makes a face just thinking out it.] I haven't been able to stomach anything but corpses ever since.
I suppose the conversion of the thanergy of the corpses allows you to avoid deteriorating.
[Sheila will get the emotion of intense nerdy fascination!]
Or perhaps it works differently for you. It's only a theory. Anyway, I haven't asked much about it, but I understand some have been focused on the nature of executions, how they cause someone to die. They typically destroy the body in some way or another, yes?
[She shakes her head, depositing Mahito's ass back in the cooler.]
Ohh... I wish. No, my toe rotted off. But it's okay! We found a serum that keeps me from getting worse. [...] Maybe I should introduce you to the woman who came up with it. You'd get along.
[She feels that nerdy fascination, Harrow. It's adorable.]
Now that you mention it... yeah. [Dawning realization.] Even Fukuda's corpse blew up into icy smithereens after he jabbed himself.
I imagine avoiding deterioration altogether would have to be something along the lines of the Beguiling Corpse. [Excuse?] It is technique, a Seventh House specialty, to perfectly preserve a dead body, avoiding any decay and allowing lifelike mobility.
The last time I did it, they wound up rotting quite a bit, though at least only below the shoulders. But I was ten at the time; I'm sure I could do it more effectively now.
[She nods.]
All of the lava isn't so much repetitive as a way to keep doing it and have us not notice that the body is always gone.
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Jiggle, jiggle, jiggle.]
Ohh, yeah. One week it was obviously Grell. And the other day, I stole a spice grinder so Douman's teeth wouldn't stab through the roof my mouth.
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Only victims? No one executed?
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Not as far as I can tell. But then again, Eleanor and Misa were both very small women. I have no idea who I ate last week.
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[No negative reaction to the fact that Sheila ate Eleanor.]
. . . Do you mind if I ask how you first came to eat corpses? It's so interesting. Cannibalism is a viable necromantic technique; they practice it on the Third House, though it's fallen out of common use in recent centuries. A Third House necro I know used to go around biting pieces off her cavalier if she needed some extra juice.
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[It could have been Misa, too. But, eh. Whoever it was, they weren't using that body anymore.]
Well... You know I'm undead. At first, when I had just died, I could get by with animal meat. But then... my co-worker attacked me, so I ate like, only a third of him? Which was such a fucking waste. Past-Sheila was not a bright gal. [THE FOOD WASTE... She makes a face just thinking out it.] I haven't been able to stomach anything but corpses ever since.
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[Sheila will get the emotion of intense nerdy fascination!]
Or perhaps it works differently for you. It's only a theory. Anyway, I haven't asked much about it, but I understand some have been focused on the nature of executions, how they cause someone to die. They typically destroy the body in some way or another, yes?
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Ohh... I wish. No, my toe rotted off. But it's okay! We found a serum that keeps me from getting worse. [...] Maybe I should introduce you to the woman who came up with it. You'd get along.
[She feels that nerdy fascination, Harrow. It's adorable.]
Now that you mention it... yeah. [Dawning realization.] Even Fukuda's corpse blew up into icy smithereens after he jabbed himself.
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The last time I did it, they wound up rotting quite a bit, though at least only below the shoulders. But I was ten at the time; I'm sure I could do it more effectively now.
[She nods.]
All of the lava isn't so much repetitive as a way to keep doing it and have us not notice that the body is always gone.
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... I have no idea what that means, but I'm going to go ahead and assume it involves more than a single shot for the rest of their undead life.
[At that, she hums.]
So, what do you think it means? There must be a reason to keep us from noticing.