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incandescens ([personal profile] incandescens) wrote2009-08-30 01:10 am

drabble for woodburner -- you wouldn't understand

Title: you wouldn't understand
Requester: [livejournal.com profile] woodburner
Series: Getbackers/Trinity Blood
Requested Topic: Akabane/Isaak, a shared taste for the finer things
Due to http://incandescens.livejournal.com/788099.html


"The man's a commoner," Dietrich said once Doctor Jackal was safely away and out of earshot. "A thug working for the highest bidder. A mere transporter. What did you have to talk to him about?"

Isaak snapped his fingers, and lit a cigarillo at the flame. "Aesthetics."

"Oh." Dietrich shrugged. "Wine? Poetry?"

"No, none of that." Isaak smiled. "The aesthetics of the perfect killing stroke. It's all about the edge and the momentum and the precision of the blow. As painfully exact as the most unanswerable argument -- he may be a worker for hire, but he's an artist too."

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