"Only the insane equate pain with success."
(Branching from here~)
TFA Swindle
"Cravings...interesting prompt. So many possible answers."
Perched on the edge of his berth as he stared down at the scientist that was currently knocked offline on the floor, Swindle absently twirled a laser scalpel in hand as he pondered the new prompt that had appeared in his messages ( Read more... )
TFA Swindle
"Cravings...interesting prompt. So many possible answers."
Perched on the edge of his berth as he stared down at the scientist that was currently knocked offline on the floor, Swindle absently twirled a laser scalpel in hand as he pondered the new prompt that had appeared in his messages ( Read more... )
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Even without the trauma of being knocked unconscious, the drug would have obliterated any sensation of the passage of time. Not that it matters, anyway; Perceptor doesn't even remember having been in the hollow in the woods. He doesn't remember seeing Swindle today at all. One moment bleeds into the next with a casual disregard for the flow of time and memory. It's all the same...
Just the same, wondrous, floating nirvana.
Wonderland.
Wonderland is particularly wondrous right now, though, as the drip enhances the dose he'd taken already not so very long ago. It surges through his lines, permeating every mote of his being, nearly pulling him free from his frame to leave him suspended in the most all-encompasing exctasy he's ever felt.
Blue light filters hazily into the depths of his optics as they slowly power up to half intensity. It's dark here, but he doesn't even care. There's nothing worth caring about at the moment, except reaching for that pale purple glow above his head. He bats weakly at it, giggling to ( ... )
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The peddler had spent the majority of his wait watching his image-orb, the smirk gone as he just sat and replayed a few of the same images over and over again. It wasn't until he got an alert to an energy signature returning to normal levels that he set it aside in favor of crawling over to the edge of the berth to peer down at the scientist.
Aw..wasn't he just adorable?
"Enjoying yourself, Alice?" he mused with a Chesire sort of grin, optics gleaming. "You seem much happier now than you were."
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It dances! Perceptor watches the purple glow with rapt fascination as it shifts and moves and dances... and then finally resolves itself into a pair of optics staring down at him. "Ohhh.... Hello!"
His hands slips from the edge of the berth as he gives up trying to catch the damcing optics-not-lights, and he grins rather stupidly up at Swindle.
"I am?" he asks. "Was I... sad before?"
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"You were. I brought you here so you could be happy though. I don't like seeing others sad," he said with a sad expression on his face that was so fake it wasn't even funny...but Perceptor wouldn't know the difference.
"So I'm very glad to hear that you're happy~ Anything I can get you friend?"
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