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07 | Visual/Location: Pedestrian Plaza | Tied up or dressed up, she's a prisoner

Dec 19, 2011 18:41

The tablet turns on before things get weird, so Taxon gets a quick upshot glance at the bare midriff exposed at Gwen's hip, underneath her heavy pea coat. There's some shuffling, so it's clear she's on the move. And then all movement stops.

Gwen hears a voice, smooth and low...and barely perceptible. But it's there, like a whisper coming from ( Read more... )

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[visual] goodluck_kobra December 20 2011, 11:03:49 UTC

"Possibly crazy, but I think it's unlikely," Kobra points out, matter of fact. "Have you eaten lately? Had something to drink?" The first craziness of the zones is dehydration and Kobra's gone through that once. It was terrible.

"Or maybe some of your wiring is wrong?" He doesn't mean it in a bad way, it's just the way Kobra's brain works, and Gwen's electricity thing is fascinating him.

[visual] freaks_myword December 20 2011, 20:47:20 UTC

She nods, because unlike some people, she eats on the regular. But fact Kobra somehow being the voice of reason, here? Kind of makes her all the more unsure of her sanity.

"I'm not a playstation," she replies, snappily, despite the fact that she can tell he's trying to help. She continues, a little calmer: "It doesn't make me hallucinate."

[visual] goodluck_kobra December 20 2011, 20:52:15 UTC

"Well I wouldn't know," Kobra points out with a shrug. There's tons of stuff he doesn't get about her, but he's got a feeling his questions are not welcome at the moment.

"Could be a variety of reasons. I wouldn't think too much of it."

[visual] freaks_myword December 20 2011, 21:05:12 UTC

"Right," she huffs, with a nod. "Listen, cupcake, I'm telling you I heard something no one else heard, from someone who I'd bet 30 million dollars isn't here. I don't just need a good night's rest."

[visual] goodluck_kobra December 20 2011, 21:22:23 UTC

"What would I do with 30 million dollars?" Kobra asks, missing the point as he so often does. Then he shrugs again and fiddles with his sunglasses. "Mind's playing tricks on you. It happens." Where he comes from, it isn't anything too special. "At least heard something good?"

[visual] freaks_myword December 20 2011, 21:36:12 UTC

"Buy some quality brands of clothing?" she returns, also missing the point.

"And it doesn't happen to me. I don't know what kinda powder you guys sniff out in the desert, honey, but hallucinating is not my thing."

And maybe that's it...that what she heard was a fond memory of someone she used to like...before everything went to hell. But all it did was remind her of everything going to hell.

[visual] goodluck_kobra December 20 2011, 21:39:32 UTC

"Why?" Kobra asks again, looking like a startled puppy. "I got clothes," he points out the obvious, then shakes his head. "And I haven't sniffed anything in, well, months or so," another shrug. "Sometimes your mind plays tricks on you though." And boy, does he have experience with that. "Or maybe it's the hamsters again."

[visual] freaks_myword December 20 2011, 21:52:41 UTC

Choosing to ignore both of the first statements, because they both pointedly speak for themselves and prove her points, she replies simply: "Maybe."

A pause, because--of course, obviously.

"Messing with us again. I wouldn't put it past them. God, don't they have anything to do up there?" she addresses this question to the sky, and their unseen captors. "I don't know, maybe solitaire? A video game?"

[visual] goodluck_kobra December 20 2011, 21:54:21 UTC

Kobra hates nothing more than knowing that they've got control over all of them like this, messing with their minds. He exhales shakily and tries not to think about it, let it bring back bad memories.

"I used to love video games," he says instead. It's his version of small talk.

[visual] freaks_myword December 20 2011, 21:59:08 UTC

Gwen hates it too, feeling like some guinea pig in an experiment. Let's test the Freak and see how long 'til she breaks, 'til she electrocutes the entire city and everyone in it.

"Yeah?" She rolls with the change of subject, feeling calmer. "They were okay."

[visual] goodluck_kobra December 20 2011, 22:01:26 UTC

"Only okay?" Kobra's eyes widen a little and he shakes his head. "You didn't play the good ones then!"

[visual] freaks_myword December 20 2011, 22:05:32 UTC

She smiles once more at his childlike boyishness. She guesses it's nice that Taxon couldn't take that away from him.

"Truthfully? Sometimes me being too close to a TV messes it up." She shrugs, and pauses, thoughtfully. "I was pretty kickass at Mario Kart, though."

[visual] goodluck_kobra December 20 2011, 22:08:25 UTC

"Mario Kart was ace!" Kobra's obviously warming to the topic. "Ge- Party and I used to play it all the time. He was already a shit driver back then," he grins for a second before looking down, expression dropping back to the usual neutralness. He's only got a few nice memories of his childhood, all of them before BL/nd came around. There were no more video games like Mario Kart after that, only BL/nd regulated games that sucked.

"I liked Zelda too."

[visual] freaks_myword December 20 2011, 22:12:40 UTC

She grins herself at that, his eagerness catching, and her smile doesn't disappear as easily as his does. Mostly because she's not used to seeing Kobra get excited over something, so fast. It disappears just as quickly, and it's something Gwen notices, but keeps the observation to herself. From what Party's told her, a lot went down in his world.

"That's the one with the green elf, right?"

[visual] goodluck_kobra December 20 2011, 22:17:02 UTC

"Yes," Kobra nods, frowning as he tries to think of what it was called. "I only had Zelda Link to the Past though, none of the others." He had always wanted all the other Zelda games as well, that had stuck in his mind. "Our grandma bought me that one for the GameBoy." Did GameBoys still exist? Maybe he could hatch one. It had been really cool when he'd gotten the game, because it was a present just for him. Not that he hadn't shared it with his brother anyway, because even growing up, the two had always shared everything. "Have you ever played Zelda?"

[visual] freaks_myword December 20 2011, 22:30:40 UTC

"Nope," she replies, but doesn't bother explaining further. "Watched it once, though." It's clear it didn't thrill her. She wasn't big into video games much, as a girl, considering she had no friends and she screwed up anything electric by just lingering.

"Kinda like being stuck in one, isn't it?" She motions to the area around her, pointing out nothing in particular. "Here."

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