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She had pondered, briefly, ignoring the request for her presence that she received from the Captain. The hour was odd for him and the rift was hardly her favorite place. Of course, the laboratory he'd made for himself wasn't exactly in the rift-- no, just close enough that you could sometimes hear things if they were large enough to make themselves known.

As Katrina Halloran she had little better to do currently than power up to General Tourmaline and as Tourmaline.... Well, she had to keep herself occupied somehow. Summer was nearing an end and soon enough she wouldn't have Uvarovite's company in the evenings as much as she had lately. He would be returning to work, with a schedule and rules that she often found it difficult to abide by.

She tugged on her boots and head out the door, waiting until she was a few blocks away from her small, simple flat before powering up to teleport down to the Negaspace.

She watched him for a moment before making her way across the room, heels of her boots sounding with each step. The boots had taken a bit of getting used to once she'd achieved the rank of General, used to the barely making a sound and now having a presence.

Of course, in the world above her aura was presence enough, as was her personality... But here? This was Ki--- Uvarovite's work room, and she'd been invited here.

"I thought you preferred saving the ropes for the bedroom, Captain." A smirk curved the corners of her mouth, impish deviousness bringing a glimmer to her eyes as she made her way over to the table. "And you gagged the poor dear too? Doesn't look too thrilled about it..."

There was a flare of jealousy that she honestly had little to no right feeling, all things considered. Through the whirlwind of a summer between them they hadn't actually talked about rules or restrictions regarding anything outside of the bedroom-- whether or not there was any sort of exclusivity to their relationship, or if it could even be called that.

"Remove the gag? Or his starseed?" Her brow quirked as she stepped away from the Captain in order to approach the young man, extending a gloved hand to trace a metal claw lightly along the line of his jaw. "Shh... You're just going to hurt yourself jerking around like that. Didn't the Captain explain that to you? I'm certain he did. He's rather good with words... If you promise to behave I'll remove the gag. Do we have an understanding?"

"I'm going to have to touch you again in order to remove the gag, darling. I know I should have asked you if it was alright first, but c'est la vie." She shrugged her shoulders as she straightened out, vanishing her weapons off of her hands to make it that much easier to shrug out of her coat. She didn't need all of the pomp and circumstance that went along with her rank while she was in the laboratory, especially not if she was being asked to assist with an experiment.

"I suppose that means you looked over the report that I filed after my recent successful recruitment?" She glanced over her shoulder towards him as she draped her coat over the back of his chair, rolling her shoulders to stretch. Her shoulder blades were tense, the pull straining up into her neck. It showed in the way she carried herself, especially now that her coat was no longer covering the majority of her.

"Are you certain you want this one, Captain? He looks like he might be a troublemaker. Perhaps...." She pondered for a moment, eyes drifting over the captive. "Perhaps, if I agree to assist you," she hoped that he knew she would either way. "we can come to an agreement? When you aren't working with him, allow him to train with me. I think it's possible to preserve some of that spirit without breaking it."

General Tourmaline's eyes drifted towards the captain, trailing over him slowly as she resisted the urge to show him any sort of physical affection for the time being-- no matter how tempting it was to brush her fingers through his hair now that he'd taken his hat off.

Or how equally tempting it was to pick up his hat and put it on.

The young woman sucked in a deep breath, releasing it slowly as she looked away from him on her way back towards Uvarovite's captive. She reached out, lightly resting her fingers on either side of the gag. "I'm going to remove this and we're going to have a chat, you and I, alright? The reason why we're going to have a chat is because you're special-- you know that, of course. You've probably known that your whole life, haven't you. You can nod."

There was just enough fire behind the fear in his eyes that Tourmaline didn't actually trust him. She knew, were she in his shoes, that she would have kicked and screamed and tried to do just about anything to get herself away from her captor-- It was a damn good thing that General Labyrinthite had taken a different route to bring her over to the Negaverse.

She removed the gag slowly, keeping her fingers on the fabric as Uv's captive swallowed. For a moment she thought that maybe she was wrong, that she had misread him, and then he began to yell. Several expletives made it from his mouth before she yanked the gag back into place, meeting his eyes with an angry glare.

"I understand. This isn't how I would have liked to talk to you either-- it is hardly ideal for what I was going to ask of you. Here I thought you were special enough to want power... Special enough to be given the strength to make sure that nothing like this ever happens to you again." She shook her head, clicking her tongue as she tapped him on the nose before glancing over her shoulder to Kian.

"You could have at least bought him a drink first."

Tourmaline sighed, running her fingers back through her hair to brush pink and purple locks out of her face. It was starting to get longer again. She'd have to decide whether or not to let it grow back, or to cut it once more. It was a good length currently for sighing and sending puffs of air to brush away from her face.

"We aren't freaks. I am General Tourmaline and this is Captain Uvarovite, it would do you wonders to pay attention to our names as you will be hearing a considerable amount of them. You are currently nothing. Arrogant, angry, both of those things I understand. You think that you're something, because that's what you've always thought... And I can show you that it's what you are."

Her hand dropped down to her side as she watched him for a moment before teleporting behind him; there in front of him one moment and gone the next. She reached out to rest a hand on either of his shoulders, leaning in close to speak softly beside his ear. There was nothing sexual or seductive about the action, much more like a conspiracy between friends. "Given enough time I can show you how to do that. I can also teach you how to protect people from the trash that roams Destiny City-- I'm sure you've seen the news stories on those terrorists. Don't you want to be part of the organization that's trying to take them down?"

Her hands left his shoulders, drifting up so that she could work loose the knot on the gag in order to free him of it completely, trusting from the look on Uvarovite's face that they'd caught the young man's attention enough that he wouldn't begin screaming again. Uvarovite seemed to have his captive's attention enough now that she wanted to give him the chance to respond properly.

"We fight them. Some of them can be brought over to our side. Others?" Her brow lofted as she leaned against the chair he was bound to. "Others are better off eradicated."