trans_9 | I keep hearing voices, but I swear I'm not crazy (OPEN)

Rei sat slumped over on one of the couches, one hand cradling his head, the other clutching his watch hard enough for his knuckles to turn white. He felt strange, slightly dizzy and off balance. Some of that may have been due to blood loss from the vampire feeding on him, but he could tell there was more to it then that. There was a buzzing in his head, words and images and sounds that he couldn't place. He'd been feeling something bubbling up inside him for a while now, a feeling of age and a voice that wasn't entirely his own.

His dog sat at his feet, her head titled to the side in concern. He hadn't been yelling at her like usual, and he'd let go of her leash. He could feel a headache coming on, and for the first time since getting her, he didn't care about what Fati was doing at the moment. He was doing his best to just stay lucid, though it probably wasn't wise that he was staring at the windows, and at the unnerving bleed.

He didn't notice when someone came into the obs deck, though Fati did, and she looked to them and whimpered, partly just bored and wanting someone to play with her, partly concerned for the well being of the person who gave her food.

[OOC: This post is very much open, but I suggest reading this first, to understand what's going on with Rei.]

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"Well, depends on when you started getting catatonic," he replied, "I only noticed you when you were right up behind me and bleeding, and by the point you were pretty much gone to your own little world. Why? Does this kind of thing happen a lot?"

He paused, looking around the medbay for a moment. In his efforts to get to boy down to the medbay, he'd lost track of his dog. He'd only just thought of her, and realized that it would probably be bad if she was off wandering around the ship on her own. Fortunately, the dog had been smart enough to follow him down to the medbay, and was currently sniffing at a bin marked with a biohazard sign. Rei patted his leg and called to her, and she happily came trotting over.

"Good dog," he said, picking the small dog up and cradling her next to his chest. He didn't want her running around in here, with all the delicate and dangerous medical equipment. "By the way," he said to Alex, "I'm Rei, and this is Fati."

Alex looked away guiltily, "M-more than I'd like ta admit... It's c-called dissociative fugue. It's... hard to explain." He shrugged as if his entirely-too-serious-to-really-be-going-without-help condition was nothing of interest.

Alex pet Alice's head and said, "O-oh, this is Alice. She's a rat." He hadn't really noticed the dog before, but now that he did, he couldn't tell you that it was a dog. Nor did he realize that it was as alien to him as it was to Rei. He assumed that the dog was like Alice, and from Rei's home. "S-so... is F-Fati one of the sorta pets in your world?"

Rei shrugged. "Lots of things are hard to explain," he said, "doesn't mean we shouldn't try to explain them. It's how we learn or something like that. Basically, I'm saying that you don't have to worry about things that are hard to explain because we're on a giant plant spaceship and there is much weird stuff going on."

Huh, so there were rats on the ship. Or at least one. Rei was really hoping that was the last one, because he'd seen the fourteenth century. He knew the horror rats could bring down on mankind.

"Oh, god no," Rei replied, making a bit of a horrified facial expression. "I pity whatever poor planet has a bunch of these hyperactive fuzzyballs running amok on it."

Alex couldn't help but to laugh. He hadn't yet witnessed the dog's antics, but just the imagery of a bunch of clones of Fati running through central park. Alex would pity that planet too.

"I suppose you're r-right. But I g-guess dissociation sounds m-more normal than my shadow powers. A-an' that's saying something... B-basically my m-mind... checks out. I don' always remember the episodes. Usually they last a f-few hours... I g-guess you were lucky, or summat." He pet Alice as he spoke, letting her crawl down into his arms.

It said something about Rei that he didn't really pay attention to the boy's stuttering about his disorder, but he perked up at 'shadow powers'.

"So you're a metahuman, right? Do you belong to a guild, or are you just a civilian? What class of powers are you?"

Guilds of super powered law enforcement were so normal where he came from. Even after meeting a bunch of vigilante metas, went he met a meta, he immediately assumed they were like the ones from his world.

Alex stared at Rei, "I-I guess you c-could say I'm a metahuman... I don' know anything 'bout the rest... I'm a civillian, I g-guess, though I spend so much time in the g-government labs, I feel more like a sub-human...

"I... I dunno what it's like where you c-came from, but Shadow Eaters are the only 'metahumans' in our world, an' the government made us. We're sorta a poorly kept secret, basically. All sorts of laws against talking about it, curfew at night to help keep people from gathering as much to help prevent crime- which is totally outta control as is... W-we're not even c-called metahumans, I o-only know what you mean cause, well, internet." He shrugged. Internet was why he knew a lot of things. That, and nerds tended to like comic books, even if he had grown up without the pleasure. He had to educate himself on things like the X-men to function in his community, though he couldn't tell you anyone aside from the main cast of the Evolutions series.

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