Video; un: darkness (Backdated to November 28th)

[survivalthroughhate]

[Maul looks very grim when he starts off the video.]

Since some of you might wonder where he is and since he had messages for me to pass along to some of you, I'm here today to tell you Wesker is dead. I killed him.

[He quickly goes on before any screeching or condemnation can start being thrown his way.]

It was not out of malice, amusement, or anger. It was an act of mercy. The zealots took him and by the time I found him he was little more than a corpse but somehow still breathing. There was no hope for his recovery.

[Maul's eyes shut for a moment, still seeing the eviscerated body lying on the table that looked more like an autopsy victim than someone still alive, lungs and heart able to be seen and still working despite all that had been done to Wesker's body by those seeking his blood.]

I'm not sure how he lasted even that long with what they did to him. I ended his suffering. Hopefully, he will be back in a short time.

[There is a private message afterwards which is only sent out to a handful of people. Vira-Lorr, Luz, Orpheus, and Ariadne.]

He asked me to pass on a message to you.

Comments

[onerthes]

A few good turns are not a terrible thing. And that whole give and take between us does seem to be the way of things...

But... again... thank you for informing me. I tend to check up on him from time to time, so it's good to know.

[survivalthroughhate]

Yes, it does seem to be a pattern between the two of us. I met him first when I was a deer in Deerington and from thereon it seems to have become a pattern to save him now and again from his own foolishness.

[Maul tries to smile but the expression doesn't even make it to his lips.]

You know he is the only one in this town to have ever heard me sing?

[When he had done so to Julia Sodder at her gravesite, an arduous task for both of them which had again helped bond them closer together as friends and allies.]

[onerthes]

Y...You sing? [She was momentarily and very obviously shocked.] Not that I am actually that surprised mind you. I wouldn't have said you didn't have the ability. I just...

It's unexpected, but you do keep some things very much to yourself.

[survivalthroughhate]

Well, yes. [There's a certain satisfaction in being able to still surprise someone who is usually so unflappable.] Almost no one knows that about me.

[It's still good to keep people on their toes even after knowing some of them for close to two years now.]

It's not something I generally advertise. I'm not very comfortable letting most people hear me sing.

[Singing was a very vulnerable, honest act and it peeled layers back on a person. Maul rarely wanted anyone to get that close and see what lay under the surface with him.]

[onerthes]

[She definitely liked to pretend to be, but he'd caught her very much off guard with this one, in a good way.] I confess that I'd be curious to hear you one day, though I think it's nice that it's something between you two. It's kind of a ... special thing after all.

And special things are for special people in our lives.

[survivalthroughhate]

Perhaps you will then. One day.

[Never say never. There might come a day when Maul feels the need to sing here in Trench, at least for his friends if not in public.]

[onerthes]

mmm, thank you for saying that, Maul. Get some rest. You've had a long day. the both of you, he and you have had one. You could use some rest.

[survivalthroughhate]

You always give good advice, my friend. I will listen to it.

[He gives her a final nod before he clicks off the feed. Maul is going to go to sleep for half a day to make himself feel better.]