VeronicaVegas
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- Parts 17
"Life is a game and everyone's playing it! Some more serious than others. It's just a constant game of people playing each other, and if you're unlucky -- You get eliminated!"
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The air tasted like rust. The light in the room was barely breathing - flickering, stuttering, like it wanted to die before they did.
One sat on the floor, calmly snapping a dead man's fingers like twigs. The other stood in the doorway, eyes black with stillness.
VERONICA (grinning, whispering):
"You know what I love? That little sound the neck makes... right before it snaps. Like a secret trying to get out."
= (soft, almost disappointed):
"You talk like this is art. It's not art. It's gravity. Everything falls. Everyone breaks."
VERONICA (laughing too long):
"Oh, but how they break - that's the masterpiece! Screaming, pissing, praying to gods even they forgot... it's beautiful."
= (tilting his head):
"They're not beautiful. They're meat."
VERONICA (crawling closer, voice giddy):
"That's why I like you. No lies in your mouth. Just cold. Just truth."
A long silence. Then-
= (smiling faintly):
"You're the only one left, Nika."
VERONICA:
"I know."
(She licks the blood off her fingers.)
"So who gets to disappear?"
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