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001: The Bold People of War Have Raised Their Swords [Holo]

Apr 07, 2011 16:05

When Leela regained consciousness, she was no longer in the Inquisitor General’s room of pitiless machines and cruel technology. She did not know where she was, only that it was silent and cold and her head ached ferociously. For a moment, there was nothing to hear but her breathing ( Read more... )

# intro post, { corwin barimen, (anytime), { jenny, @ central, { narvin, { leela

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[Visual] patternal April 7 2011, 23:21:26 UTC

Now that was one of the more interesting broadcasts he'd seen. And for a place where nothing interesting ever happened between zombie attacks, that was certainly enough entertainment to last for quite a while.

At least he was diplomatic enough to wait until he'd finished laughing at the robotic dog before he responded.

"'Insufficient data' about covers it. There's prety much always been 'insufficient data' as long as I've been around." Which wasn't as long as some of the others, but it was still too long.

[Visual] anoblesavage April 8 2011, 09:10:55 UTC

Since she had lost her sight, Leela's keen sense of hearing had only grown sharper. When she had arrived in her the metal prison, she had been struck by just how silent it was. Clinical. Apart from her and K-9, there had been no signs of life.

The voice - which seemed to come from nowhere, as she knew from the unnaturally still air that no one had arrived in the room with them - made her start. Once again, she wished fervently for a knife that she no longer possessed.

"Who are you?" she demanded, tense and wary, turning to face a tablet she could not see.

[Visual] patternal April 10 2011, 01:51:34 UTC

"Corwin," he responded immediately without thinking of what the repurcussions might be. Not that he'd told anyone enough about himself that they could do anything with, or that there was even anyone here who cared. "Fellow prisoner." Something he was certainly experienced in. At least this time he had some more wandering room and had kept his eyes. "Not exactly the greatest proposition in the universe, but it could always be worse. At least everyone's fed and entertained."

[Visual] anoblesavage April 10 2011, 20:56:31 UTC

"I do not care how comfortable the prison is," Leela snapped, fists clenching, "I will not stay here."

She could not stay here. Romana needed her. Even Narvin needed her, though he would never admit it. A team stayed together, no matter who or what tried to keep them apart.

"Tell me what you know of this place."

Re: [Visual] patternal April 11 2011, 22:34:23 UTC

"Yeah, you and everyone else, princess. If you have any more luck escaping than the rest of us, it'd be nice if you could share with the rest of the class." Every time he decided he was actually going to help someone...

"I know that you're stuck here the same as everyone else." Oh yes, she was going to have to fight for her information.

[Visual] anoblesavage April 12 2011, 18:04:32 UTC

"I am not princess," she growled. She was no more a princess than she was a Time Lord! "I am a warrior of the Sevateem."

And if she did not have more important battles to fight, she would fight him for the insult.

"Stuck where? What city, what planet? Who is keeping us here?"

[Visual] patternal April 13 2011, 23:34:47 UTC

Warrior was a damn sight better than princess, even if it had been more sarcasm than formal address.

"Keep your pants on. This place is called 'Taxon--' or at least that's what they told me--and the people keeping us here are less 'people' and more'hamster.'" And still not the weirdest thing he'd seen.

[Visual] anoblesavage April 14 2011, 17:05:14 UTC

This man was going to get more exasperating, not less, before she found the answers that she needed. But at least he was telling - or starting to tell - her what she needed to know.

"Taxon. K-9, do you know any planet by this name?"

"Negative, Mistress. The name 'Taxon' does not correspond to any of the entries in my data banks."

She had expected that. Escaping from this place would not be easy.

"Hamsters? We were being imprisoned by hamsters?"

[Visual] patternal April 16 2011, 07:43:41 UTC

"Exasperating" was one of Corwin's middle names. Occasionally he even enjoyed being exasperating on purpose, simply because he could and it kept people on their toes. And he hated to just give answers away. No one learned anything that way.

"Hamsters is what they tell me. And I haven't exactly seen any evidence to the contrary. Hell, I've seen weirder than hamster kidnappings. This place is damn sane compared to some others I could think of." Even with the zombie apocalypse.

[Visual] anoblesavage April 18 2011, 13:40:16 UTC

"So have I, but that does not mean that I believe everything I hear. Especially when I am hearing it from a stranger. Who told you this?"

At the moment, she was inclined to believe that the people spreading their lies were the ones who were truly responsible for the kidnapping. If it was not another trick of the other Leela's.

[Visual] patternal April 22 2011, 08:28:31 UTC

"The other people around here." Friendly enough, but then, he did have trust issues. He was a damn adept at keeping people at arms length and charmed enough to keep from trying to kill him. Apparently, he was going to have to try a little harder.

"Look, I can only say what they told me, and that's the God's honest as far as anyone knows. And believe me, if I'd made something up, it would have been a damn sight better than 'giant hamsters.'"

[Visual] anoblesavage May 3 2011, 17:59:30 UTC

There was a time and place for argument (and Leela had never shied away from a fight), but this was not it. Arguing with him would not help. If he was telling the truth, then pressing him further would not achieve anything. If he was lying, he would keep on lying, no matter what she said.

Besides, there was a resignation in his voice that she could only attribute to honesty.

"I believe you," she said, "You have nothing to gain from lying to me and I have nothing to gain from fighting with you. Thank you ... for your help."

[Visual] patternal May 7 2011, 22:38:08 UTC

And now I know for next time not to bother. But he was smart enough to keep that particular little thought to himself. He had actually learned something, though there were a few people that he could think of that would have been just a little more on the side of surprised.

He did, though, decide to skip the "you're welcome."

"There's not much to lie about. It's pretty, but that doesn't make it any more fun to be stuck here."

[Visual] anoblesavage May 8 2011, 19:50:30 UTC

"Then we will have to work together so we do not have to stay here any longer," said Leela, as if it was as simple as that. In her black and white world of right and wrong, it was. They would defeat this enemy and she would return to the strange version of Gallifrey were her friends were trapped and she had an enemy of her own to face.

Re: [Visual] patternal May 10 2011, 00:31:22 UTC

"Good luck with that." Not that he wasn't capable of teammwork, he just wasn't capable of teamwork with strangers. Too much staying up at night making sure that there weren't any knives hiding in the shadows, and he'd had more than his fair share of those already. "I hope you've got a few more pretty words tucked up your sleeve. Besides, I'm not sure our Almighty Masters are all that willing to listen to anything anyone in any number says."

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