"Yeah, I know." To all, then Del flops on the floor, crosslegged and thinking.
"No one deserves things. Not really. Ka doesn't think like that. It's not a balancing karma act all the time. Plates spinning all about on the sticks, and sometimes they just crash cause they do. Gravity's the explanation, but it ain't necessarily so, childe. I don't pick. Not like the others, not from before birth. Don't pick, don't claim, just wait until someone comes into my realm and try and hug 'em if they want it, and if not, um. Well. I have bugs and birds and butterflies and bile and they're fun. But yeah, no. Y'know Susannah's kinda one of mine, yeah? Was. But you never really get over. You don't recover, you're always recovering. One foot remains in the grave, even when the vamps claw their way out to the moon. Just is."
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"No one deserves things. Not really. Ka doesn't think like that. It's not a balancing karma act all the time. Plates spinning all about on the sticks, and sometimes they just crash cause they do. Gravity's the explanation, but it ain't necessarily so, child
e. I don't pick. Not like the others, not from before birth. Don't pick, don't claim, just wait until someone comes into my realm and try and hug 'em if they want it, and if not, um. Well. I have bugs and birds and butterflies and bile and they're fun. But yeah, no. Y'know Susannah's kinda one of mine, yeah? Was. But you never really get over. You don't recover, you're always recovering. One foot remains in the grave, even when the vamps claw their way out to the moon. Just is."