Despite what her appearance may tell him, she doesn't look away as he jabs the corpse through the eye. There's a small flinch - that's a natural reaction, right? - but otherwise she seems to be not as squeamish as one might guess. She doesn't like it, of course, but it's... not actually anything new to the blond. That life may be a good thirty years behind her now but parts of it still linger. Always will, probably.
"Not sure a knife would be much 'prettier,' but I'll take your word for it." Rose listens to him say that she needs to the brain, but this really isn't answering her initial question of 'Why?' He mentions not letting them bite or scratch... Suddenly, years of TV and movies come to mind. 'When the dead walk' as taglines and campy, cheesy teenage horror flicks about viruses and the like causing people to reanimate.
That was just television though, right? People didn't actually come back to life, right?
"Uh. Are you trying to tell me that people who die might not be like dead dead? Dead for good?" Since, in her reality, that's only in the realm of science-fiction at this point. And it leads to the realization that maybe, just maybe, they might not all be from the same place.
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"Not sure a knife would be much 'prettier,' but I'll take your word for it." Rose listens to him say that she needs to the brain, but this really isn't answering her initial question of 'Why?' He mentions not letting them bite or scratch... Suddenly, years of TV and movies come to mind. 'When the dead walk' as taglines and campy, cheesy teenage horror flicks about viruses and the like causing people to reanimate.
That was just television though, right? People didn't actually come back to life, right?
"Uh. Are you trying to tell me that people who die might not be like dead dead? Dead for good?" Since, in her reality, that's only in the realm of science-fiction at this point. And it leads to the realization that maybe, just maybe, they might not all be from the same place.