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 Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:12 pm
<< You need to stop moaping and get back to work >>
The irritated Banshee's voice chimed into his head as he stared at all the books and notes he had before him. Most of them had no indication to what a Horsemen was, and the earlier tweets gave him little clue what it was that stabbed him other then bad.
Everything was bad.
The night before he woke up in a cold sweat grabbing at his side as if he expected to find a gaping hole where he had been stabbed. Before that he had nightmares about Ceres bloodied up and wounded looking down on him as he gasped for air saying he shouldn't have fallen down. All around him people where screaming in pain. Even the image of the stranger, pressed against the barrier opening up like a fountain of red.
"I can't Silvya...I just... I can't not today..." He gathered his days work shoving it into a bag before stumbling towards the exit of the labs. He had to find something to distract himself he just needed to get the terrible thoughts out of his head.
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:37 pm
Madison had been looking for Robert, actually - Jordan hadn't been answering her texts, and she sorely needed some big brother time. Some hugs, some easy conversation, something before the low boil of stress made her go mad. She'd spent the night before sleeping on the floor of her dorm, just to be closer to the distant sense of something - someone - watching over her, that presence in the earth.
... That was about the time she smacked right into someone else coming out the door of the labs. "Ow!" She staggered, windmilled her arms, and fell over.
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Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2012 7:51 pm
Oddly enough they shared one common concern, Jordan. Rep didn't drop any details and had made the usual death glare if he dared to ask anything else so he continued on silence on the topic as well.
This of course did little to comfort him considering what he had just seen in the past few days in what classified as 'their job'.
As such he didn't even hear Sylvia whining to look out before he ran face first into Madison tumbling backwards just as helplessly as she did. Even if more comical because he dropped books and papers everywhere.
<< You sir. Are an idiot of the highest degree. >>
Grumbling the small mist boy rolled over onto his knees shaking his head, "S-sorry miss I just... I've been stressed and I didn't see you and I'm sorry I wasn't watching where I was going..."
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:36 am
"It's okay! Dude, I wasn't really looking either, obviously..." Madison scrambled to her feet, rubbing one elbow that had taken a knock in her fall. "And I'm not a miss, I'm Madison. Who're you? Don't think I've seen you around before.. you new?" She held out one hand to help him up, if he wanted it.
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Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:43 am
The small hunter shook his head a mess of brown hair as he looked up to the other hunter taking the offered hand. "Then Miss Madison, it's just being polite if I don't know you really." Once up he took a moment to brush his coat off. The labs where still under repair and it was far to easy to get coated in dust and rubble.
"Yeah, I um... woke up right before the whole siege thing.." He tried to force a smile as he shrugged his shoulder, "C-crazy first few weeks on the j-job right?" He was bleeding, blood gushing from a sudden series of wounds. Rep was covered in cuts. Petra looking down on him. Ceres shaking her head sadly.
Suddenly he was looking away from her leaning on the wall taking a few deep breaths trying to steady himself shaking like a leaf.
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 9:45 am
"Oh, god." She visibly winced in sympathy. "Yeah, uh, welcome to Deus Ex Machina, we'll ******** you constantly but you'll probably save the world at some poin-" Madison blinked as he turned away and slumped. She knew that kind of look. That was first-mission-trauma-face, that was.
Not that she didn't feel the same way sometimes, even now, but the spirit developed a certain kind of resilience... or, at least, the thought of vengeance was so soothing, so deliciously cooling, that it helped hold things together. And there was Kouki too, twining coils through her mind and patching up the cracks with layers of fine scales. "Dude, you..." No, he wasn't okay. Obviously.
She revised mid-sentence. "You made it through," she said, quietly. "Wounds will heal, I promise. Physical ones, mental ones." It's worth it, she almost said, but didn't. He might not be ready for that one.
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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2012 11:49 am
"That seems to be the idea I guess, can't say I exactly... saved anything.." It seemed he had calmed down just a bit leaning against the wall still before running a hand through his messy brown hair.
Wounds, yeah, those healed fast like the dagger to his side from that one creature a 'Horsemen of Famine' it seemed like on twitter.
"T-the weapons can heal us. Sylvia. She helped patch me up but... I can't stop seeing it. That guy by the jungle shield he just... he just started falling apart. I can't just unsee a man.. unraveling I ju..." He hiccuped slightly and covered his mouth fighting back an urge to be sick.
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 5:22 pm
Ugh. Madison's own stomach twisted in sympathy. "Y-yeah, I... that never gets easy," she said, quietly. "I was stationed somewhere else, but yeah, I've seen what the freaks can do to a person." Julie staggered in her memory, her skin splitting to reveal the bugs inside, her eyes vacant and staring. "It's not pretty, I... but you have to keep going, y'know? So that s**t doesn't happen to normal people. We're soldiers. They aren't. It's all for them..." She put one hand on his shoulder.
Was she healed inside? Hell no. But they had to keep going.
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:14 pm
<< Nothing worth fighting for or having is easy. I'll try to make it hurt less but I can only do so much for you Roland >>
The weapons reassurance along with Madison's helped get the boy onto his feet a bit more proper. One hand reaching up to steady himself with her shoulder as they spoke. "Normal people... yeah." He coughed one more time and shivered slightly.
"Y-you wana go somewhere else the labs are..." he coughed again, "Dusty, from all the work being d-done." Really he just wanted to get away from it before he risked getting sick in the front door. Anywhere away from here and that jungle would be good with him.
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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2012 6:46 pm
Madison looked up at the building, then nodded. "Sure, yeah. That's fine." She wasn't going to leave this poor, hapless newbie alone in this state. "I can catch up with Robert later. Figures, we just freakin' finish rebuilding it..." She shook her head, irritated. "At least they didn't hit the dorms this time. Guess they aren't strategic enough. Those Horsemen are some sick ********, let me tell you..."
She looked at him, curiously. "Got anyplace specific in mind?"
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