video;

[writtendestiny]

[She rests her chin on her hand while she addresses the screen. Poison is sitting in the shared living space of the rooms she shares with Peter, and there is a small black cat stretched across the back of the couch.]

I have a question, and... it's a difficult one, so no one has to feel like they need to reply.

[Sigh.]

I'm curious... about how many of us have died before. And how many times.

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[writtendestiny]

I've never heard of anything like that before...

[She pauses, then adds;]

At least, not all in the same creature.

[circumspector]

Oh, are they separate for you? What are those called?

[writtendestiny]

[She has to think about it.]

There's a kind of lizard in the southern deserts that will set itself on fire as a defence mechanism, but I don't know its name. Goatfish will eat anything, even people if they can. I'm sure that creatures who do the other two things exist as well.