"I'm wrong?" Pennywise laughs, but not with humor.
There are dealers in Vegas who have the wherewithal to recognize a good hand. A used car salesman can press the dings out of metal and refinish paint in layers. The liars of the universe can unite under one tarp, they can shake one hand while indefinitely carrying a dagger in the other. It is with this same malice that the creature of Derry regards IT's cousin.
Game recognizes game, after all.
Randall has life, Randall has vigor, Randall seems to have everything and anything with just a simple push in the right direction. How promising it must be to be a monster without a cage, a boundless and unrevocable sense of possibilty. There is jealousy somewhere in IT's cold cognition, amber eyes flicking out from their place in the shadows like the dying embers of a campfire.
Yes, sweet envy. To be free, to have purpose to be—-something else.
The display is catty if not trite. The clown ambles away from the festering fruit as if IT expects a coming infestation. The insults, however grandiose in their delivery, are hardly something new. In fact, Bill Denbrough had said something not entirely dissimilar not twenty years prior. Or was it forward? Maybe back? Time was no friend to Pennywise.
There is now a guttural hiss somewhere deep in the monster’s core, a distaste that rumbles and bounces from wall to wall like a clap of thunder through trees. It isn’t the sound of a viper striking, nor one of an alley cat brandishing its claws for a fight. It is the low guttural shift of annoyance the bloodied bull gives the needy matador, the rough and shallow sigh the beaten boxer lets out right when the match is being called for the show.
We have eternity, yet we do this.
We have all the time in the world, yet this is all he gives us.
“You’re real mean.” The voice is idle, soft, the source hidden from the darkness as two hands reach outward. They are slender, rubbed pink from a bathtub full of blood. Carrie, or what looks like her, wears her mother's church communion dress with a sterling silver cross closed at the throat. She looks to have been bleeding from the hairline, her blonde hair coated in viscera, and eyes widened like polished china plates.
“I’m used to mean, though. Mean is how I live, after all.” Carrie drops ITs hands, a simple gesture that was accented by the roll of the neck. Soft amber eyes close, the thin, wiry body receding back into the comfort of darkness. Go away. Away with you.
“—you have an entire universe, don't you? A whole great big playground to make a mess of. Yet you still---darken the only place you aren't welcome.” The simplistic drawl is there, the common small-town accent that clung to the quiet voice like a prayer.
“That's what this is, yes? You've come to put the miserable mutt out of ITS MISERY.” The voice is calculated again, smile widening into a horrible scar up to the ears. "----go on then, do me a favor. Get it over with, or disappear and leave like you are so known to do."