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 Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 9:20 am
She wasn't resisting.
Midgard had pinned her to the wall, tall frame easily shadowing her from the dim streetlights that barely lit the alleyway they'd found themselves in, and she wasn't resisting. Instead, it looked as though she was giving him a once over.
Wait.
Was she checking him out??
Things officially had gotten weird, but his resolve when it came to regaining the starseed outweighed any feelings of discomfort the woman's gaze had brought about.
In a slow pace, Midgard responded. "You don't know the first thing about me." Violence was something he strayed away from, but he was capable of it. There was enough blood and death on his hands to account for that. The grip he held on her wrist tightened and he reached with his other hand to pry open her fingers and take the starseed from her.
Once is was in his grasp he stepped back, something unusually cold in his expression. "I suggest you leave, ma'am."
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 9:27 am
Midgard was absolutely being checked out. Like a book. She'd return him and find a copy of her own if she liked it enough. This analogy got confused somewhere. Anyways. The thing about her other hand was that there was a weapon in it. He'd just left her with a weapon in her hand and a side he wasn't guarding with his arm anymore. Tantalite didn't even need to consider it. While gathering starseeds was important (and not gathering them in your belly, did people really eat them?), she could tell that he was physically stronger than her. But the side of his torso under his arm probably wasn't stronger than the bow she pointedly jabbed into it, if only as a petty blow out of spite at this point. Still, she'd admit she liked the dark tone of voice he had. "Oh, I can guess plenty," such as that he wasn't a violent person - he could have taken advantage of the previous position to really hurt her. Paired with a certain acid-flinging senshi, that would have been a painful match. She'd hope they weren't friends. "I can leave, but I won't promise that you've saved anybody," she taunted, desummoning the bow. He likely wouldn't approach her again. That was her guess.
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 9:50 am
Her jab earned a hiss of pain and narrowing of green eyes. Carefully, he tucked the starseed into some place safe, where it wouldn't risk shattering, within his coat. Tension kept his shoulders stiff as he stared the lieutenant down, trying to keep from scrutinizing her so much.
Still, he couldn't help but wonder who had gotten their claws into her so tightly that those were the words spilling from her mouth.
"Do you value human lives so little?" The question left his mouth before he registered the thought of it. What did it say about her if she could so easily imply that if he let her go, she would just do the same to someone else?
Even now that he was out, Midgard couldn't understand what made people do such things without seeming to care. "I don't want to hurt you." Because Midgard never wanted to hurt anyone. "But if you turn around and find another life to uproot like you just tried to do - " he stopped, words falling clunkily from his mouth. Why was English so hard?
"I'll stop you." Though, he was concerned with the way she looked at him she would like it if he was fighting her.
Why were girls so weird.
"You don't need starseeds to meet quota, so why are you taking them?"
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:05 am
She tilted her head vaguely to one side. He looked at her as though he didn't understand what she was doing or why. Poor child. Poor probably older than her child. That's all he could be - a child, so unknowing of what it was she and the Negaverse were doing. Yet he spoke so easily of a 'quota', as though he knew she had one. "I'm helping them," she stated firmly. "Do you think you're helping them by keeping them trapped inside frail and easily broken bodies? All they need is a baptism and they'll become as they were meant to be." Oops, she just crossed over into strange zealot territory. Clearly someone had really gotten their claws into her. "If even little old me can be..." she looked at her hands, then paused, a look of almost confusion coming over her face, then she dropped them, brows furrowing together as her mind mulled over both what she was saying and what she knew. She had, in not so few words, asked for this. It had given her everything she wanted. She was everything she wanted to be. "I'm everything I want to be. Why can't I make everybody else have that too?"
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:18 am
Something in him ached.
Reflected in this woman's face was that of Teallite. Of Tourmaline and Domeykite. Youthful naivety that the Negaverse had sunk claws into and twisted, warped into something that screamed of corruption.
"Who are you to play God?" Choosing who was worthy to live outside of their 'fragile' existences as the woman put it. "For everything they give they take so much more." Even with all the gaps in his memories, he knew that with completely and utter conviction.
He wondered if it was the mind altering that had her speaking in such a manner, did she know? Would anyone tell her how chaos poisoned the soul.
"Even if that's what you believe. They should have a choice." Even he'd been given a choice when he first stepped through the black veil when he had been young and naive. "If you strip them of their souls, how are they to ever see the 'light'?"
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 10:45 am
He couldn't see the forest for the trees. It was so clear to her and for a moment, she felt sympathy. But it also said a lot of about what she knew about him - he'd not liked the forest, only the trees. "How would you know?" she stated, bluntly and pointedly. She'd been given a choice and she'd taken it with no hesitation (but a lot of deadpan confusion before hand.....), who wouldn't have taken that if they were offered it? Did people not like nice things? "They'll..." she stopped herself. What was she going to say? The words sounded like everything she'd ever heard supposed terrorists - actual ones, not girls dressed in white and skirts that were too short - would say were their actions for well...anything. Her brows furrowed and eventually, she settled with saying nothing. Clearly she'd just been going about this wrong. Which simply meant that by letting this Knight take the starseed, he was going to give her an opportunity to try it another way with that poor unfortunate soul. She'd save them. He'd see.
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 11:16 am
"Like I said," his voice was dry as he spoke, jaw set tightly despite the way it moved when he talked. "You don't know anything about me."
He wasn't going to admit that he'd once been part of the Negaverse. He knew what Tourmaline had threatened, he wouldn't be giving information away recklessly. Not when he was starting to have things in his life worth protecting again.
"If you think that you have all the information, you're wrong." Midgard shook his head at her, stepping back and away as he gazed at her. "They'll tell you anything to make you loyal." Disgust flickered across his face. "Or they'll alter your memories. Different things, same results."
He was curious about what lies she'd been fed, but he also had a dying body to save. "You'll see." Midgard turned and jumped, catching the ledge of the buildng's roof and pulling himself up and over.
Then, he was gone.
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2017 11:36 am
All she'd see was his figure as he jumped away into the night. Still, she'd caught herself in some weird words and would need a little time to reconsider things before she caused too much more mischief. In that way, Midgard had succeeded in getting Tantalite off the street for the rest of the night, at the very least.
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