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 Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 10:56 am
At some point Ganymede slept.
It was not restful or deep. She never slipped entirely into unconsciousness, as some part of her brain always remained attuned to her surroundings. No noise escaped her awareness, whether it be a distant scream or the drip-drip-drip of leaking water. She heard everything but saw nothing—which was worse, she thought, than seeing everything, because it meant her imagination could carrying away from her.
She thought of Valhalla the most. That was natural, of course. But it was painful, too. She knew not where he was, or how he was doing, or whether he was even still alive. Ganymede made herself believe he was. To believe otherwise would only curb her will to live, to fight back in whatever small manner she was able. Valhalla was strong, she reminded herself. He could endure. He wouldn't leave her by choice.
If she could see him again, that would be enough. Just to see him, to know that he was there, to see for herself that he was well, or as well as he could be, to look into his eyes and allow herself to believe that everything would be alright.
But she was not offered the opportunity. Of course she wasn't. Why would any of the agents imprisoning her ever be so kind? They mocked her instead, fed her stories about Valhalla she knew to be lies because they brought her no proof.
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 11:03 am
He had been looking for Ganymede for a while now, having left Valhalla's section of the fun house; which wasn't so fun right now. Finally he had found where the senshi of lust was being kept, he'd over heard some random officer who he'd never before seen, and didn't care to know the name of, and it was with that knowledge that he sought out the blond senshi he'd been instructed to visit.
Biting his bottom lip as he moved past the entrance to the senshi of lusts little section of fun he carried the little squat flashlight bu the handle like some specter carried a lantern. The light filling the area with various amounts of light as it got dimmer the further away, though it did shine a nice spotlight right above itself.
"Ganymede." he called while approaching the cage. Why keep this one in a cage? Valhalla was chained to the ground so why was this different? Unable to hazard a legitimate sounding guess he figured he might get away with asking. He doubted it was a lack of chains and cuffs so they'd gone for a cage for this one. There was likely some reason behind it.
"Do tell me your awake and can answer me." Having stepped closer, right up to the bars, he kept his voice at a whisper. "I come bearing some news for you." Why was he risking himself so damn much? he knew if he was caught he'd have a cage, or chains, right next to all these captured members of order. Rather than hearing screams and sounds from their fellow knight or senshi they'd hear his screams and cries, never a plea for mercy though, and likely hear his final breaths as he was sure they'd kill him in the end - no need for traitors. No, there was no sane reason he was doing this and yet he was and he knew he'd do more...risk himself more.
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 11:23 am
Ganymede had silently been questioning the cage since she'd first woken up to find herself within it.
She supposed it was supposed to be symbolic. They'd captured their prey. Certainly there wasn't any other logic to it, except that it kept her confined as well as any chains could. Maybe they liked to watch her wandering around in circles looking for a way out, and knowing all along that there was none. There were no weaknesses in the cage's design for her to exploit, no way for her to squeeze herself through the bars. She was trapped.
Looking up, Ganymede saw Benitoite through the light of a flashlight. It wasn't always so dark in the room where they kept her cage, but the lights had turned off some time ago. She didn't think it was meant to symbolize night. Rather, she was sure they meant it as some manner of torture, trying to spook her with the darkness.
It hadn't worked yet.
“Benitoite,” she said, noting the officer's identity.
She could not determine whether she was surprised by his arrival or not. The low tone of his voice was certainly curious. She was used to the threats and barked orders at this point. Seeing such a familiar face whispering to her between the bars of the cage seemed too good to be true.
“What do you mean?” she asked, keeping her voice low to match. “What news?”
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 11:32 am
Circling the cage, his free fingers ghosting over the bars, his slate eyes watched the blond. "I was looking for Acrucis, who I saw captured and brought her, when I found someone else." He said with a light smile ghosting his features. "I still have to find her...." Trailing off as he let his mind wander for a moment. He needed to find her after this, he needed to check on her and see to her health as well.
"I was asked by Valhalla to see you, to bring you something." His fingers left the cage and slipped into the folds of fabric which made up his uniform. It was from somewhere that he pulled out the item inquest and held it out between the bars to the senshi. "Hide it on your person, I cannot have someone realize you were brought this. It will put a spot light on us agents and start some investigation and traps being laid to find out who is helping...not that I count that as much help...just a mere comfort and transferring of an item. Though I also can you that he is alive and as well as can be. He is injured but not as gravely as he could have been." he offered as he waited for the blond to take the item he was offering her. Some sort of trinket he knew not the significance of but was sure she did.
"I told you once, not long ago, that I am not some sheep and I believe I even sighted the future we both have seen. Trust my words and that I will do my best to help those who are here. I cannot free you, as much as I may wish to, and I cannot do more than I will. I have my own safety to mind - above anything else. If I get caught then anything I may do in the future, any good I may do, will not come to pass." He was pleading for this senshi to keep his secret, a very big secret, it would be so easy for this senshi, or that knight, to bring him down and put an end to his existence - they had the means to do so right in their hands. He was putting trust in them, more than he would his own side and it's varied members....aside from Bischofite who he'd have trusted. Swallowing around the lump in his throat at the idea of the other General.
"I will keep you, as I told Valhalla already, informed about the others who were captured. I will do what little I can." And here a little could mean a lot, could be a lot, because every little thing counted.
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 11:54 am
She flinched visibly upon hearing that Acrucis had been captured. Ganymede did not like to think of the sort of horrors that might be facing such a kind person.
She didn't have long to consider it. Moments later, Benitoite was holding out a familiar object and slipping it through the bars of her cage. Ganymede make a quick grab for it, taking it into her hands and holding it close to her chest with notable reverence. She opened the pocket-watch to glance inside, but all the met her was the picture of Liesel.
She'd almost hoped Val had left some message for her inside of it, but of course that was expecting too much considering the state he must be in.
Regardless, she nodded her thanks to Benitoite and closed the pocket-watch again, slipping it into the only place upon her fuku where it might remain hidden—down the front of her bustier.
“I won't tell anyone,” she assured him, in as strong a voice as she could manage to show that she meant it.
To truly impress her, to make her reconsider everything she'd ever thought of him, he would have to release her and help her and the others escape. But she knew she couldn't expect that much. For now, this was enough to earn her temporary trust. After all this was over (if it ever ended), she couldn't promise that that trust would last, but so long as she was here she would consider Benitoite something of an ally.
Of course, he could have been sent in with that in mind. Perhaps they were trying to trick her, and Benitoite had been deemed the most likely candidate to see that her trust was earned. But he'd brought her Valhalla's pocket-watch. No one in the Negaverse could possibly know the meaning behind it.
Making a hasty decision, Ganymede grasped her eagle brooch and pulled it until she heard the fabric of her collar tear and the brooch broke free. She passed it back through the bars, holding it out to Benitoite.
“Will you take this to Val?” she asked. “Tell him not to worry about me. Tell him... tell him he should think of himself. That if anything happened to him, I...”
She couldn't make herself complete the sentence.
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:07 pm
Watching the senshi make the quick grab for the pocket watch he smiled. It seemed it really meant a lot to the senshi, which wasn't surprising given who had sent him with it, and he smiled at the sight of the senshi hiding it. That was good, he didn't need it found on her person and figured to be a new addition to her person.
"Thank you. I cannot have them know anyone in our midst is helping." It would be very bad for him and make helping that much harder, if not down right impossible. He wasn't expecting to be trusted and yet he was downright giving his trust to the senshi here, and the knight he'd seen, he wouldn't call them allies at least not after this. But right here and now they surely were, as sure as he drew breath.
Watching, wondering, as she grasped her broach and ripped it from her uniform he nodded his head and took it from her hands. "Of course, I will bring it to him. Is there anything you want me to tell him? I will try and pass what words I can amongst you two and the others...information on the well being of you and your kin who have been captured." He was willing to help them in whatever small ways he could, it would be the most he could do. To let them out...he'd be signing his death warrant even if he could do it.
At the others words he nodded. "I'll tell him." A nod of his head and a reassuring smile.
"I asked him when I left him...and I'll ask you now. Help me keep my cover...anything you wish to tell me that I can report to those running this. Whether it be little nothing information or even insults. I will relay it and that will hopefully look like I'm doing my job even whilst I spread information and words between you and the others." He hoped she understood his need to have words to bring back from this in order to keep his cover, he needed anything or he may not be able to return. Anything to make it look like he had done something with his good cop routine he claimed to be playing with them.
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:23 pm
“I'll keep your cover for however long I have to, so long as keeping your secret doesn't screw me over,” she warned him.
She couldn't pretend she wouldn't use the information to her advantage if a time came where she thought it might be beneficial. She wasn't going to tattle on him outright, but if doing so eventually earned her release or resulted in something positive for her and the rest of the captives, she'd do it in a heartbeat.
Right now, she couldn't see what good it would do, so for now she'd keep her silence.
Still, he deserved the warning.
“But make no mistake, if it turns out ratting you out would save Valhalla or myself, or any one of the others, Acrucis included, you better believe I'll do it,” she said. “First and foremost I mean to get out of this alive. Your safety comes second.”
She almost felt bad for saying it, but squashed whatever guilt she might have down where it wouldn't weigh too heavily upon her conscience. He should have understood what he was getting himself into when he decided to play the double agent in this mission. She was the one who'd been captured; she was the one being tortured and beaten, not him.
“Tell whoever's in charge I send them a big '******** you,” she added. “Laurelite, too, if it turns out it's not her. I'm assuming it's not since she hasn't been in here yet. But just incase she thinks I've forgotten about her...”
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:40 pm
"Of course. I will not...screw you over, as you so nicely put it." He would see to it. Right now, and even in the future, he was at this senshi's mercy as she could turn him in at any point. He knew in the future someone had turned him over, he just didn't know who. He knew he had to watch himself and be careful with those who knew his secret. He knew he was putting himself at a risk and opening himself up to being a bargaining chip of someones in the future. He knew that he couldn't be used as a bargaining chip here, in this situation, but in the future he could be and he knew it.
While she continued to talk he was back to walking around her cage. Fingers, gloved, once again running over the bars and he tilted his head. "I doubt ratting on me will save you. They'll still torture and kill you, or Valhalla, the ones running this will just find me my own cage or chains and you'll go to sleep hearing my screams rather than some senshi or knights. You'll hear me die as I'm sure my own side would not permit me to continue living. So it won't gain you a thing aside from screams to lull you to sleep while you remain here. As for Acrucis I will be seeing to her protection - personally. She is now, as she was in that future, under my protection." he kept his voice calm even as he spoke of his own torture and death. He was simply telling the truth and he made sure he kept his voice calm. Why should he let such things work him up? It was what he was in for.
The smile he wore turned crooked and he bowed his head. "Of course, I shall give them those words. I'll have to locate the General Queen to pass on your message - she isn't involved in this as far as I can tell. I've not seen nor heard her." He spoke in a whisper, his voice so soft and light as he moved with grace. The shifting of his layers of fabric filling the air and covering for his voice. "I'll try and sneak some water in next time. I won't be able to leave it with you but I'll try to provide some water." he wasn't sure what his fellow agents would do about water and food for the captives they had. He didn't care to ask, he needed to seem indifferent to this. "Anything you wish me to say to Valhalla or the others? I'll be trying to make rounds."
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 1:56 pm
That Laurelite did not seem to be involved didn't come as a surprise to Ganymede. She'd assumed as much based on what she'd learned in previous encounters with other agents. It did seem curious to her, however, that someone of Laurelite's position would allow other agents to plot and scheme without her know-how, but Ganymede couldn't pretend to understand how the Negaverse worked. She didn't particularly care to, truth be told.
In any case, she should be focusing more on herself and on the fate of her allies than on the whereabouts and the concerns of a General-Queen she'd met only once. Yet she could not pretend as if it didn't bother her, that she'd been captured and one of the few people within the Negaverse who could claim any sort of interest in her was either unaware or didn't care to pay her a visit. Who was it pulling the strings on this mission, and why did they not show their face?
Ganymede expected she'd find out in time.
“Tell Acrucis to stay strong,” she finally said. She swallowed down a lump of emotion in her throat. “And... tell Val I love him.”
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 2:01 pm
Stopping his walking he stood facing her and nodded. "I will tell them both. I will find Acrucis first and then I shall return to Valhalla." He spoke gently and reached out through the bars but didn't touch. He didn't figure it out be appreciated al lthigns considering. But he did nod his head once. "Keep strong. I will bring you what I can for news and help however I am able." Withdrawing his hand he turned then and made to leave.
Glancing back over his shoulder once on his way out. "I will do my best to assure that when your kin come you are alive." Turning from her then he left the room silently, save for the ruffling of the coat and cape he wore. He hoped he could keep them alive without being caught. What would happen if he was caught? How long would they suffer for, without his help, before help would come for them? Would he be alive when help for them would come...and would they even save him? No...he was sure they wouldn't. He was a useless agent of chaos who only right now was useful to them. Once their allies came he'd be left to his fate, if he was alive when their allies came.
Turning from Ganymede's enclosure he headed off to find Acrucis.
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