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Detention, Depths of the Castle, Wednesday

Jul 25, 2012 02:06

The good news for everyone in detention was that there wasn't any sign of singing going on on the island today, so everyone could be spared from any further embarrassing admissions that they'd rather not have made ( Read more... )

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Re: Visiting Hours [07/25] panickedbanik July 25 2012, 12:37:06 UTC

When the others started arriving Stark stopped his pacing. He dropped into a crouch quickly, back against the wall, and made himself as small as he could again. He didn't think it would work today but he'd been wrong before. He'd been wrong about so many things.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25] nobettersuited July 25 2012, 21:18:39 UTC

Tahiri made a guttural, distinctly derisive noise deep in her throat as she approached.

"Does that help?" she inquired casually. "Have you ever managed to really hide that way?"

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25] panickedbanik July 25 2012, 21:24:48 UTC

"Not hiding," Stark corrected. He didn't look up. Not yet. "There's nowhere to hide here. Just...taking up less space." He managed, somehow, to pull himself into more of a ball. "Sometimes it helps. Sometimes. Not today." Obviously.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25] nobettersuited July 25 2012, 23:04:01 UTC

"That could be helpful," Tahiri replied with a patronizing sort of sigh. "We never know when we'll need more room in here. Sadly, I don't think today is that day."

She smiled, and nothing about it was reassuring. "May as well get comfortable while you can."

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25] panickedbanik July 25 2012, 23:59:18 UTC

"No comfort here, either," Stark said, mostly to himself. "We don't need more room. Not how we'd have to get it. How would I get comfortable? Did you bring something comforting?"

He looked up at Tahiri. "What do you want?"

He could keep himself together. He could. He knew he could. If his hand was fiddling nervously with the buckle at his neck that didn't mean anything.

Re: Visiting Hours [07/25] nobettersuited July 26 2012, 01:29:59 UTC

Tahiri shrugged. "Who said I needed anything? Maybe I was just bored."

panickedbanik July 26 2012, 02:10:30 UTC

"This helps with boredom?" Stark asked, looking around the room. He should stop talking. He knew he should. He'd never been good at that.

"I'm not that interesting. Really. I'm just...me. Not interesting. Not exciting. Just a Banik." Who had strange things in his head and used to be a science experiment.

nobettersuited July 26 2012, 02:26:41 UTC

. . . much like Tahiri, actually. That might have something to do with it.

"The only one of your kind here," she pointed out, and kept to herself that they had that in common. "Shame you had to take sides with these brenzlit."

panickedbanik July 26 2012, 02:34:56 UTC

"I...have an aversion," Stark said softly, "to dictators. Those who take away freedom. Freedom is important." Which is why he's locked up. Shh, it totally makes sense. Really.

"They're right. You aren't."

nobettersuited July 26 2012, 02:49:44 UTC

"Then what use is it to be in here, cowering?" Tahiri demanded. "If you believe that as strongly as you claim you do, where's the force of your conviction?"

Look, she'd pretty much given in to the zealot tendencies and rampant militarism of her Yuuzhan Vong brain. It made sense to her.

panickedbanik July 26 2012, 03:15:57 UTC

"Better than the alternative," Stark answered. "Where am I supposed to go? What should I do? Walk out? Die?"

"I've done this before. Been locked away. Most of my life was this. Cages and cells. Better this than helping you."

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