Detention, Depths of the Castle, Thursday

[cracking_wonder]

Another beautiful day had begun in Fandom, not that anyone in detention would have noticed. The lack of sunlight, the pleasant sound of Umbridge's voice, and the slightly stale smell of breakfast were all important aspects to making every day in detention routine! Surely everyone knew that surprises were no fun

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Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[cracking_wonder]

Assuming they're not already talking to themselves or something.

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[bloodyspitfire]

//Desolate digs sound about my speed,// Jonothon decided. //I'm... not much of a people-person. Less than ever, these days.//

For some reason or other.

//And... London is fine, I suppose. There just isn't any place for me there. I left after my powers manifested, didn't think I'd ever look back. Trouble is, th'place I went to... Well, I'd gone to school. Not here, I mean. A special sort of school, for people with mutations that set them apart from baseline humanity. And even if I wasn't too old for that school now, I wouldn't go back there. Not with Emma Frost playing headmistress there.//

That would be the nice way of putting it.

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[flaps_wings]

"Emma... Frost?" Liara repeated dubiously. "She's... has she been here?"

She wasn't sure.

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[bloodyspitfire]

//She'd be th'one that comes down here and announces that we're all just throwing tantrums and should grow up and re-join society under Umbridge's rule immediately,// Jono replied, eyes narrowing a little. //Likes to pick on...//

He looked around for Jack, and then gestured vaguely in his direction once he spotted him.

//Likes to pick on him. Has very little in the way of manners when it comes to reading minds.//

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[flaps_wings]

"I can imagine you would not want to go back," Liara said. The description had rung a bell. "Is there nowhere better for you to go?"

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[bloodyspitfire]

//For th'likes of me?// Jono shook his head a little. //I have th'sort of face that you don't particularly want to wear in a crowd, luv. I lost the ability to live a normal life in my own world when I blew my jaw off. And... I'm afraid I've been down here too long to really know what else is out there. I'll manage, I'm sure. I always do. But for th'time being, everything is a bit up in the air.//

Which was fine. He still wasn't completely convinced he wouldn't be down here forever.

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[flaps_wings]

"You are always welcome in Armali," Liara said, wrapping her arms around her legs. "If we get out. No one would look at you strangely, outside of being curious about your species."

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[bloodyspitfire]

Jono tilted his head at her, and then found a place to sit nearby.

//You get quite the assortment of different sentient species out there, then?// It was intriguing. Hell, it was tempting. A different world entirely, where humanity and their loathing of mutants was a complete non-issue.

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[flaps_wings]

"Most people on Thessia are asari," Liara admitted. "But there are plenty of hub worlds with a large variety of species. And most asari are born from cross-species liaisons."

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[bloodyspitfire]

//Cross-species?// That was... actually kind of fascinating, in its own way. That there was an entire race that took parts of its genetic makeup from other races. Jonothon couldn't help but feel curious as to whether they all still managed to look similar, or if they kept some features from their non-Asari parent, as well.

Maybe he'd find out later. Maybe.

//So I'd be a bit of a curiosity,// he mused, //but nothing particularly frowned upon, so long as I don't commit some sort of serious interplanetary faux-pas.//

Good to know.

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[flaps_wings]

Liara smiled. "I'm sure some would find you very interesting," she said. Considering the asari inclination to make babies with anything that looked new...

She rubbed the back of her neck again. "My species can produce offspring with any sentient being," she explained. "We feel doing so adds to the species. Purebloods like me are... well, it's complicated."

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[bloodyspitfire]

//I suppose 'complicated' is a universal constant,// Jono offered, idly drawing a squiggle in the dust on the floor. //So long as there are people involved, nothing is ever going to be simple.//

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[panickedbanik]

Stark wasn't really talking to himself. He was, very quietly, reciting prayers while he paced. He didn't think it would help. But he was sure it wouldn't hurt. And it gave him something to do. He had woken up restless, which was never a good sign.

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[justwantsfixing]

Sookie was more alert today than she'd been in weeks. She looked around the room, studying each of her fellow prisoners.

They were a powerful group. Smart, too. How had this happened to them?

She wanted to go away, to create a safe space in her head to share with Bobby, but not today. She wouldn't weaken herself again today, as much as she wanted to.

She spent her hours working against her mind, keeping herself in the present and focusing on the here and now. The coolness of the floor, the sound of the others breathing and talking, the brightness of the lights.

She was here.

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[flaps_wings]

"You seem more alert," said Liara, the ever-observant. "I had been concerned."

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/26]

[justwantsfixing]

Sookie offered a little half-smile. "There's better folks than me to worry about in here. I've been having a rough week." Or a rough couple of years.