Mes Pauvres Petits Miaou-Miaous

SHIVERS - Outside, spring rain seeps into the cracks in the walls and the cobblestone streets, and into grated storm drains. All the way down into the sewers... Above ground, the first May bells blossom.

For Klaasje:

the damsel in distress

the femme fatale

the votary of le Retour

something I love about DE writing is the lack of fantasy oaths — in fanfic you sometimes see characters say things like 'dolores dei's tits' or w/e but I don't think that happens in the game. what is occasionally used in the game is 'host', eg host in heaven, host of hosts, which is a lovely crib from catholic theology and possibly quebecois swearing — it's familiar enough to provoke the right gut reaction in the reader, but it's just slightly wrong for a modern/common usage.

what does it mean? it's not host as in eucharist because afaik there's no sacrifice/transubstantiation story in DE theology. here's the fayde results for 'host'. let's do some fuckin corpus analysis

STEBAN, THE STUDENT COMMUNIST - "Nobody said fulfilling the proletariat's historic role would be easy." A tight smile. "It demands great faith with no promise of tangible reward. But that doesn't mean we can simply give up." // ECHO MAKER - "And of course, we'll be shooting right back." // VOLITION - "So young. So unbearably young..." // HALF LIGHT - "Why do you see the two of them with their backs against a bullet-pocked wall, all of a sudden?" // KIM KITSURAGI - "I don't know what, yet -- but it's going to be a hard spring for the RCM. We need to get ready. Infiltrate. Investigate." // SHIVERS - "Stop and you can go to the Burnt Out Quarter. And meet me there -- wafting above the burnt ruins. Like the smell of caramel -- Le Retour is waiting." // WHAT KIND OF COP ARE YOU?