Pale
Stakes
Stakes noun - The money risked on a gamble.
Both words in one sentence
- Vampires in Enter the Matrix and The Matrix: Path of Neo are human shaped with pale skin, black-hair, can kill you in sunlight, bend gravity to walk, somersault, cartwheel on the ceiling and can be killed by stakes or, in Path of Neo, other weapons because it disrupts their codes, somehow.
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While this is understandable given the stakes, some of their darker acts could very well be beyond the pale even by such standards and probably were bad ideas from the start, since they tend to either not work out very well or bite them in the ass.
Source: Manga / D.Gray-Man
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