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 Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:37 pm
Amphi clasped her hands and looked away. "I'm sorry but..." She agreed with Mei and Yin, "I don't think I will go anywhere unless I know more about why it was that we are like this." She looked sad again, "Thank you...for the option though.."
The mermaid sighed again and looked away.
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:40 pm
"Israfel, Zar, don't do this! Not so easily!" She urged them, still standing her ground on the issue. "Think about it! You went outside this cell, I don't know about you but I didn't see any of us just running around!" That in on itself was suspicious. They kept talking about joining them and whathaveyou, but if that were the case, where were the----
Amrita's eyes widened as a thought hit her.
"The weapons." She breathed out weakly, clutching onto the torn bottom hem of her shirt. Weapons. That cylinder that Calder described to her. The dreams Mort told her about with a similar tube, being turned into a weapon...
"You're trying to turn us into Weapons, aren't you?!" She accused, pointing at the Hunter on the screen.
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iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 11:57 pm
He spread out a wing to tap at Amrita. "You worry far too much Amrita." He smiled. "I don't know that is why I asked. To find out. But that is a good point. I will see and decided. If they force me well." He shrugged. "You've heard me when I scream. It's rather hard to miss."
Still the tone went and he smiled weakly. "May I would have been better." he worried to offend. Something that had not changed in recent months. Rocking back and forth he considered who he could ask. Mei, Yin and Amphi got smiles as well. "You will be alright. They haven't hurt us yet after all." Turning back to the division lead, he nodded. "Madison would be nice." He snuggled into his clothes. "I do not know about the weaponization though. I don't think I'd make a very good weapon." He really didn't.
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:06 am
Amphi wasn't really surprised by the fact that Caelius was giving them that option. In fact, her walk with Wash had confirmed it already so...
Amphi came up to Israfel and took his hand in hers, "It's the matter of not hurting us yet that makes us even more wary Israfel..." She was looking away sadly. "Please don't leave us in here..."
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:07 am
"Israfel.. Do you honestly think they have our best interests in heart? If you go with them, its likely you won't be coming back. Not as you are, anyways. You'll be turned into one of their tools! And even if you did scream, we're stuck in here. Its not like we would be able to run to your aid." He was far too trusting for his own good. He had a good heart. And the hunters would exploit that.
"'Yet' being the key word." Shaking her head, her brow furrowed. "It wouldn't matter what you think. Its only what they think that matters to them! If they 'choose' you, then obviously you are of some value to them. Don't go with them, please!"
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:09 am
The tap Israfel gave her startled her, making her jump visibly before turning slightly towards him. If things went bad...he'd scream? "And what could we do about that, Isra? Sit here and listen to you?" Not in time, anyway. The nonchalance Israfel was displaying was more terrifying than the idea of being weaponized itself. "Don't be stupid...don't throw your life away!" She was working under the assumption that's what was happening, and she was going to continue assuming that until she was proven wrong.
"Please don't do this...!"
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:11 am
"I do not think you should agree so easily Miss Israfel, Yin offered tentatively.
Would Miss Israfel leave him without ever letting him know he was a he?
Find out on the next episode of This is Suffering
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:11 am
Zar gave the others a somewhat baffled look at their outcries. He didn't see the enormous problem, they'd brought them all here in good faith and it was a genuine enough offer.
"What if its a one time offer and the extra days are just to weed out the dedicated from the cowards?"
He tapped his chin with a claw thoughtfully. It was a dilemma to say the least. But he was daring. He'd always been told by his father to seize the future by the horns, make bold business decisions.
"Rin." he stated, acting for all intents and purposes like he hadn't heard the others.
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:21 am
Zar too? Did they really think that what they offered was good? When have they ever had anything from a hunter that was good? "Its not cowardly to want to stand up against bullies." Her glare directed at Caelius as she spoke.
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:30 am
Clank.
Something solid clattered against the limited counter space. A simple enough weapon, scythe-schaped, glowing on its own, light blue runes covered by ornate golds.
It hummed, sang, entirely independent of the microphone.
"Weapons." That consistent neutral tone was slowly fading to disdain. "The same way that you are of course, ultimately specimens." A thinly veiled threat. "However, if you ask any trainee, any Hunter in the facility about their weapons, I am sure they would happily oblige to introduce you to their partners."
The scythe-weapon itself remained still, and yet the humming got louder, now less a hum and more of something unexplainable, as if sight and sound had crossed over to form an image through song. As if all senses were focused into a single sensation and amplified ten-fold.
For a second, instead of the weapon, someone else stood there - ghost-like, delicate. She turned to the students, smiled, held out a single hand in invitation before the form collapsed back into that of a weapon. For those of weaker heart and resolve, she easily called to them and captured them entirely. It would be okay. It was their calling. She would be waiting for them.
Caelius actually seemed relatively irate as he waited, pausing a second longer for his weapon to de-summon herself back into her orb form as if annoyed at the students for wasting her time and effort. "They are still themselves, the same way your Fear still defines you. Not perfect, but individual."
It seemed however, he was pretty much on the last dregs of whatever patience he had left - and for those who knew him it really did not leave much room for the imagination as to the limits of his patience - as he opened the door and snapped to an attendant outside. "Fetch me Madison and Rin, the trainees, now."
The door snapped closed behind him. It was quiet again, leaving time for the students to speculate further. Sosiqui You have been summoned to this room via an IC text! Simply post arriving: Caelius is waiting outside the interrogation room. Byrr You have been summoned to this room via an IC text! Simply post arriving: Caelius is waiting outside the interrogation room.
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iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:40 am
The siren rolled his eyes. "He didn't hurt me when I first met him." A glance to the man on the screen. "And when I talked to them in the haunted house, they were not that bad. Sometimes they didn't even fight me. They chose not to fight. They are choosing to tell us all this. All of this when they could do whatever they want." He shook his head. "If I was throwing my life away I'd have never tried to fly. I'd have never tried to sing. I'd be dead on the cliffs for the corrvidus. You act like I'm going to die, but all I'm doing is getting answers. Mister grumpy hooves is just a bit blind but even he's trying to see. Everyone keeps saying how we have to fight, how we need to kill hunters but-" He sighed.
"I don't want that. I don't want to fight them. I want them to understand that we're not all bad. Just like I want the rest of us to understand that they're afraid. They're fighting to protect their world. Themselves too. We've never had a reason to fear humans before we met them, and now we are feeling what they must feel. I don't want us to be scared." He suddenly found his boots very interesting. "I want us, all of us, to find a balance. But if we don't try to understand -if we don't try to trust or hope or even have faith- then what? Do we keep fighting? There is no point to suffering. No one should have to suffer. Even if we cannot have a true peace then at the very least I'd want us to understand more than the lies we've been fed. More than all the false words fed to us by the boogeymen, by the school, by everyone."
He pulled away from them slightly. "I know you must think me foolish, but having lived for so long thinking I was destined to die, thinking and fearing that the day would come when my time was up, and my wings would not carry me, that my voice would do nothing more than cause pain... I am not afraid of what happens. I am not afraid to face what lays in the unknown. Things get better, and people change. All I am afraid for is you all. My friends, strangers even. I might not be afraid but I know others are so I try for them. If I am the fool than I am the fool, but I will have tried when others have not. If that is the end..."
He shrugged. "I will not regret my choices. I made them in the end after all."
The hunter spoke and the siren watched. As the woman formed, he paused. She looked familiar but he wasn't sure. "She sings sweetly." He looked back at his fellow students. "I will go. For us."
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:45 am
Amphi's eyes widened at the faintly ghost image of Circe, the hunter's weapon and stared long after she disappeared.
"But they are alone besides their partners..." That was her deciding factor. She could ALWAYS be herself. She couldn't be her true self without Roch or Danny or Lizzy at her side. She needed her friends just as much...
And to be latched to one hunter? Even if Wash was nice and kind, there would be no way that she would find one just like him. Even the thought of leaving Roch for a hunter?
Not happening.
She let the siren go and headed back to the small cot in the room, curling up on to the bed. She wanted home now....She lapsed into silence for the rest of the time, wondering if she could feel the same as Israfel did...
Silence seemed to be the only answer for the mermaid now.
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 12:58 am
There was obviously no stopping the two. They made their choices, and no matter what they would say, they could not be swayed. The thought of them becoming one of those..weapons carried around by the white coats--it made her sick.
The sudden 'clank' was enough to draw her attention back to Caelius, watching as he summoned his weapon, the large scythe she had seen him wield before. His words only irritated her more as he spoke. They had already met their 'partners' on numerous occasions. Their 'partners' were always right in their faces!
The ghost of a figure caused her brow to rise slightly. She looked so serene, and vaguely familiar to Madea almost..
When she faded, and Caelius stormed out, Mei looked to Israfel and Zar once again. She stared at them both for a moment, then shook her head and walked to the other side of the room, sliding down to the floor. They tried. But if they wanted to go so badly, then there was nothing they could do to stop them. This was their choice.
"Just..be careful..both of you."
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 5:34 am
Yin's blood did not run cold with the suggestion of weapons, but close enough. Someone else thought the same. The confirmation only made him feel slightly nauseous. It was disconcerting, but the apparition even more so. The welcoming gesture. It went against everything he had thought about weapons. But it could have been a simple illusion.
Either way he found himself in a rather defensive posture, shoulders hunching forward a bit. Then to hear a student, someone he knew still not only signing up to be one but actually defending the decision, sounding rational and like this had been thought out? It was confusing. He could not get his voice to work, wordlessly opening his mouth to protest before snapping it shut. Miss Israfel...
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Posted: Sat Jul 21, 2012 10:19 am
The idea made her sick, and the ghostly display only made the feeling worse.
She wasn't giving Caelius any more of her time than a passing glance; any longer and the nausea returned. There was no way this was right. Not only were they weapons that would be turned against them, but she'd heard first hand how some Hunters treated their so-called partners. Robert came to mind almost instantly, the way he yelled and swore at her.
That wasn't a partner speaking.
"But you'll be a slave. You'll be used to hurt your friends!" She turned to Israfel, unhappy and desperate to get him to change his mind. "You've got so much more potential than a Hunter's slave. Both of you do. This is throwing your life away. If you let them do this to you, it's over. What about Shehk? Sammy? Lucien? Israfel, if you do this now, you might be the one taking them down one day." She turned to Zar, equally desperate though she had no idea who he was. "And you, you said you had a boilfriend..."
"If you do this, you're going to be the ones making us suffer. You're not going to stop it from happening, you doing this isn't going to make anything easier for anyone. Especially those you're leaving behind." She couldn't do it; she couldn't go to the Hunters anyway, let alone without getting a chance to say goodbye to her friends and loved ones. "You are being foolish. More than that, you're being selfish, and stupid."
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