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[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

[Donna appears on the plane, somewhat guarded and weary. She looks around for a moment but then relaxes just slightly, pushing her hair out of her face]

Anyone needs me, I'm going to the pub. I need a pint. Or two.

[and thus she begins the trek to the pub]

Comments

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

Someone...tortured you for the first fifty years of your life? [trying to process that]

[madamemoiselle]

Mmhmm. {Combing through her hair idly with her fingers, looking at it instead of Donna} It's where I was born and where I thought I would die. I didn't know anything else other than just trying to survive from day to day, actually.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

[frowning slightly] It's still not a reason to kill people. You honestly didn't know you were?

[madamemoiselle]

I knew that I was, but I couldn't stop it. It's not easy to explain, really...

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

Well, try me. I want to hear it. You were...fine when I met you. You're fine now, too.

[madamemoiselle]

I mean that it's not easy to explain because I don't know how to describe it. It's...never happened to me before. It happened to Saya once, in Vietnam, but...

{She thinks about it for a moment before she tries to explain it as Amshel did} Amshel said...Amshel said it was like, since we're kind of a combination of a human and an animal, it's like we were back to that animal part. He said it's an...instinctual {Which is pronounced very carefully} reaction to a stressful thing, I think. Something like that, but I don't really understand what he said.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

[nods a bit] ...You're right, that's bloody confusing. But all right, basically, you were like...a starved lion? Or something like that?

[madamemoiselle]

...? Is that what it's like? I've never seen a lion before.

[notquiteawidow.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think it is. The romans used to do that. They'd starve a lion for days and then during the fights, they'd set it on the people. It was starved, so it didn't care what was happening, it just wanted food.

...You've never seen a lion? Really? They're big cats, size of flippin' cars and the males have these big furry manes and the females are a bit sleek and 'course they do all the hunting because the males just laze around and- [and off topic much? she coughs]

Anyway. 'S like with lions, yeah?