[ This both works and backfires. It works in that the bony dog bound down from its mistress' lap, giving a joyful 'arf' and bounding over to NEW DOGGO FRIEND. It backfires in that after a moment, the corpse does almost exactly the same thing. Hopefully being aggressively petted and investigated by a corpse with no apparent sense of personal space is not TOO distressing.
It's also. Probably not an action that is being controlled by Carmilla, unless she's become very strange recently. The corpse is brighter now, the cloyingly sweet tone and the more genuine concerned tone that replaced it now replaced entirely with something more open and just a little chiding. ]
You arrived too early. She was going to try to turn me. I was going to document the entire process - I've never heard of a forged creature being turned. It would have been fascinating.
[ A pause. ]
I would have killed her as well, of course. She oughtn't be able to hear us right now. He's been sniffing for her - did you know that forged animals maintain their keen senses, even if all the parts they needed to use them have rotted away?
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It's also. Probably not an action that is being controlled by Carmilla, unless she's become very strange recently. The corpse is brighter now, the cloyingly sweet tone and the more genuine concerned tone that replaced it now replaced entirely with something more open and just a little chiding. ]
You arrived too early. She was going to try to turn me. I was going to document the entire process - I've never heard of a forged creature being turned. It would have been fascinating.
[ A pause. ]
I would have killed her as well, of course. She oughtn't be able to hear us right now. He's been sniffing for her - did you know that forged animals maintain their keen senses, even if all the parts they needed to use them have rotted away?