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 Posted: Mon Feb 21, 2011 8:30 pm
Internally, the words that escaped Zink's mouth made her frown, but outwardly she kept that same determined look on her face. She wasn't sure that the Senshi had destroyed their home worlds - they were misguided, not suicidal. Not to mention, she was sure whatever had happened to them was in the past, before they'd come to Earth and been corrupted by Serenity's brainwashing. But she said nothing, instead choosing the path of silent agreement. She didn't think Zink was the type to argue but she didn't want him questioning her loyalty either.
"Hope is not a terrible word, it's only harmful when the speaker gives it a different meaning." She pushed herself away from the wall then and gave Zink a sad, wistful smile. "We can teach the Senshi what hope really means, we can drive it so far into their hearts that they'll never forget," her sad, wistful smile changed then, into something more akin to that cold determination she showed right before a battle, "or they can die trying."
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 5:58 pm
His eyes were distant before he spoke again, something personal and that made his gaze drift away from her.
"Hope is what you hold out so that people can do you further harm...hope is what makes hell possible. We need facts...proof... power... power to shake their mad queen's hold from them. We need to save them not torture them...someday, we'll do that or drive them out. But I hope the first...because that might well break the curse on you as well."
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:08 pm
She listened in silence as he spoke, the feelings of his words sinking deep into her heart until there was nothing left of her smile. She brought a hand up to the cracked, scarred flesh that tainted the pale skin of her chest, tracing the line of the wound carefully with one gloved hand.
"Maybe it would and maybe it wouldn't," her words were slow and careful, startlingly lacking in emotion. It was only because she shoved it down, buried it in the depths of her soul where it would only come out to haunt her again in her loneliness. "At least if we can drive them out no one else will have to suffer for the lies of the moon kingdom. They could see the truth with their own eyes."
She dropped her hand from her chest, refusing to linger on the scars she suffered both mentally and physically. She had fought for the wrong side and lost and the Negaverse had given her a second chance she had hardly deserved. She looked over at Zink, at the distance in his eyes, and knew that it was the same look she often carried on her own face. "We'll do the best we can for them, Zink."
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 6:29 pm
He paused... there was a darkness in his eyes like a scar... twin pains from unrelated sources and his wasn't even visible to the world most days.
"I...apologize. My opinions are just that... I can only speak for myself...my own assumptions. Would, would you mind terribly if I retired to speak to my team regarding the next training session? I'll appear further from your room next time if I can to keep from startling you." He bowed from the waist.
"Thank you, for your...audience and patience."
He looked remorseful and shaken
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:01 pm
Alkaid frowned at his sudden coldness, the way his brightness had retracted out of her reach. She had come to cherish the companionship he brought and that look in his eyes.. it made her tainted heart ache.
"Z," she said quietly, reaching out to lay a hesitant hand on his shoulder, "you don't have to apologize for that, not to me." The distance in her eyes had disappeared, leaving only concern. She didn't want to lose something so quickly, not when she had just found it again.
"Go talk to your team and I'll be here whenever you need me." She withdrew her hand from his shoulder, offering a small smile to show that she was alright - words could only shake her so much. The folded paper ad in her hand for the EMT class made a small crinkling sound as she closed her hand more tightly around it.
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:15 pm
"I'm sorry..." he said again and then looked like he'd just mentally kicked himself. "I...just didn't mean to hurt you...I didn't ..." he started and stopped just before some admission that he was clearly at war with.
"...Another time... it's... I am just not... as strong as you when emotions are involved." He said quietly. HIs hand covered hers for a moment and at least there was some warmth back in his eyes.
"Thank you, I mean that."
A small squeeze of her hand and then be bowed, almost apologetic in itself before he vanished in a cold rush of air.
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Posted: Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:55 pm
She stood there a few minutes after Zink finally disappeared, her original intentions completely forgotten. The night had just been one surprise after the other and no matter that she had originally been looking to get out of her cold, dark temporary home, she found herself walking back to her room and what little privacy and comfort it offered.
She shut her door behind her and crossed over to stare at herself in the mirror, looking deep into her own eyes as if she were trying to find what Zink saw in her. She saw only blankness in the face staring back at her but instantly knew that it was all a part of the wall she had constructed to keep her fragile heart inside.
"Avoidance isn't strength," she said quietly to no one, but a belated answer to Zink regardless of the fact he would never hear. She turned away then and stared at the dimly lit room behind her, the only place she could remember as home. Then she disappeared, as swiftly as Zink had, to find some unfortunate soul to pour her emotions on.
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