Yesterday... All my troubles seemed so far away...
((Takes place during or shortly after this thread...))
TFA Perceptor
Perceptor is out and about today, having left a note, something about sample gathering and coordinates, on his work area before he had left the lab. The fact that he had arrived back at the lab shortly after everyone else had left to rescue Percy... coupled with the fact that he had been in the washracks and then his quarters while they were risking their sparks... It has the scientist unsettled. Unsettled, and feeling what might be twinges of guilt, if he had the right word to describe the slightly "off" feeling in his core.
The feeling that he had failed his friends by being in those carbon-laden caves is enough to bring up doubts about his capability of being a friend. What right did he have to be present at the lab, if he could not even maintain regular contact with his fellow scientists? He had allowed himself to become distracted when he should have been seeking out Percy. 'Ceptor should have had his assistance...
If neither of the other Perceptors spoke to him again, then he deserved what came. Though the thought of not having compatriots who could understand what he was explaining, and with whom he could be himself, was almost enough to make him turn back, he would bear this punishment.
He had to... If not for his own guilt... then for Percy's sake.
TFA Perceptor
Perceptor is out and about today, having left a note, something about sample gathering and coordinates, on his work area before he had left the lab. The fact that he had arrived back at the lab shortly after everyone else had left to rescue Percy... coupled with the fact that he had been in the washracks and then his quarters while they were risking their sparks... It has the scientist unsettled. Unsettled, and feeling what might be twinges of guilt, if he had the right word to describe the slightly "off" feeling in his core.
The feeling that he had failed his friends by being in those carbon-laden caves is enough to bring up doubts about his capability of being a friend. What right did he have to be present at the lab, if he could not even maintain regular contact with his fellow scientists? He had allowed himself to become distracted when he should have been seeking out Percy. 'Ceptor should have had his assistance...
If neither of the other Perceptors spoke to him again, then he deserved what came. Though the thought of not having compatriots who could understand what he was explaining, and with whom he could be himself, was almost enough to make him turn back, he would bear this punishment.
He had to... If not for his own guilt... then for Percy's sake.