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[boyhood]

_{[Whodunnits aren't really Peter's leisure activity of choice. Who's committed a crime and why aren't as interesting as what a person will do to overcome a challenge. Slapdash, violent, gleeful murder… it's a bit much. And rather hard to ignore after the first few bodies start appearing and the horrified reactions start buzzing amongst the people.]}

Lock your doors and shutter your windows, it looks like we're in for a nasty storm.

_{[Only Peter's boyish voice can be heard; there's no indication of where he might be, or what he might be doing. Maybe he's taking his own advice on this one.]}

If you don't, be careful who you come across in the halls. Or what you might find.


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I expect you'll be keeping a better eye on Henry this time. Don't wander off and lose your hearts. Someone taking them without magic makes an impressive mess.

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[itisourfight]

And there at last is what you are actually warning people of.

[ See how that helps when you're trying to make people stay inside and hide? ]

Makes one wonder what more you could tell if you cared to.

[ But she is sort of backwardly grateful for the warning.

And considering doing some hunting. Tauriel isn't really the type to just sit idly by and let people get murdered. ]

[boyhood]

I thought it was a tactful word to the wise without getting into the details. I don't have a lot of practice at this, do you?

_{[You can help co-author his next PSA if it means that much to you. Though Peter would hope a smart audience would be able to read between the lines. A nice, comforting metaphor is more pleasant than dismembered bodies, isn't it? He's thinking of the children.]}

If people don't need to witness what there is to be afraid of, better for them. Believe me, this kind of thing isn't for the faint of heart. I can only tell what I've seen and that's if I cared to scare people.

I take it you haven't been out for a stroll yet.

[itisourfight]

Fair enough.

[ Well, not really because she still believes that he was being unnecessarily vague to get under people's skin, but she can't exactly prove that since she doesn't know him. ]

So what have you seen? Rest assured that I am not faint of heart.

[boyhood]

<sub>[That's a fair assumption for anyone who knows Peter Pan. Getting under people's skin is something he does just by existing and by doing that thing where he opens his mouth and words come out.

In this case, however, he's perfectly sincere. Or at least partially sincere. They might as well be the same thing.]</sub>

I believe you, but are you sure you want to know the details? There are two bodies as far as I know. Very... _{[He stops to search for the word.]} ... disarranged.

[itisourfight]

[ A less fair assumption to make when you are an elf who doesn't know him at all, but Tauriel is somewhat suspicious by nature, even if she is also relatively quickly won over. ]

I want to know what is going on.

[boyhood]

You'd have to ask the criminal what's possessed them to start this.

_{[Because they've got murder on their hands, Tauriel. A diabolical game of kill or be killed!]}

The dead aren't talking. _{[A sober observation.]} Or they won't for a while yet.

[itisourfight]

What do you mean by that?

[ Is there Necromancy at work in this place as well? ]

[boyhood]

_{[Isn't that obvious? Apparently not. Peter had picked up on the rumors of death-defying power in a matter of days when he'd first found himself in this world; it really seems like something a person ought to care about the most.]}

Why, I'm talking about the fact there's no such thing as death here, of course. Terrible thing, testing their staying power, yes, but the fact is that no one really dies in this place.

The murdered will come back, and when they do, they might be able to name their killer. Uncanny, isn't it?

_{[And wonderful.]}

[itisourfight]

[ For a mad moment she wonders if perhaps these are the halls of Mandos after all. Perhaps this is the true nature of what awaits elfkind if they die.

But no, that cannot be. She will not think that it is so. ]

I doubt that it is quite so simple as that.

[boyhood]

I'm sure it's not, but the results are. They'll resume their lives in a few days.

<sub>[The current situation, including their aggressor and his method of entertainment, are on the other hand, simple through and through. Hardly worth the same scrutinizing thought.

As an afterthought, Peter deigns to add:]</sub>

Maybe not, of course, if they've reached their limit--we have extra lives to spare, but even that gift's not infinite.

[itisourfight]

What happens when one... runs out of lives?

[ What strange sentence to say. ]

[boyhood]

Do you know what happens after death?

_{[A rhetorical question, to be sure.]}

Who's to say what grim awaits someone whose life is extended so long and finally reaches the end of it?

[itisourfight]

Yes I do.

[ A much less rhethorical answer. ]

[boyhood]

Oh, really? So you've come back from the land of the dead once before already? Inspiring.

Odd to sound surprised at what I've just told you, then.

[itisourfight]

No, I have not. But I know what awaits me if I were to be slain.

[ Though after a moment she does have to add: ]

At least in my own home. I wonder if that is what would happen here if I were to die enough times...

[ Is that a possible way out? ]

[boyhood]

_{[As he'd thought. At her suggestion, though, Peter leaves his subtle nettling aside in favor of helping her along in her musings.]}

Is that an interest in finding out?

_{[How about it, lady? Want to bite it over and over until they see what happens?]}

[itisourfight]

Yes and no.

[ Don't think she can't guess at what you're getting at there, Peter. ]

[boyhood]

<sub>[She need not think very hard about it, Peter's hardly being cryptic on this one. Some boys find catching frogs interesting, some trying to sneak peeks at girls' cleavage... This boy happens to find the rules of immortality and resurrection interesting.

Peter certainly wouldn't test anything out on himself, that's for sure.]</sub>

It could always be arranged if you wanted to experiment.

_{[With as casual a way as Peter drops this offer, it ends up sounding more offhand than sinister, strangely enough.]}

Not like this, mind you.