trans_9 | Cascade [Open party time!]

Billy had just launched another portal in that maze of mazes, exhaustion setting in. Surely this time he would land on another moving platform of death?

Nope, just the exterior of the finished bathhouses. All polished, systems running, and just about ready to open! Given how sore and exhausted he was, that sounded like an excellent idea at the moment.

With a quick message to the rest of the crew, he set out the 'Open' sign for the first time and took advantage of his owner status---the prime waterfall spot could be his!

((ooc: The bathhouses are now open! Feel free to mingle around, relax, and have a party. Or cause trouble, but that might invite more trouble. Just start a subthread with your character's location and have fun. For reference there are individual showers in front, followed by hot tubs centrally located, saunas further back, and private baths along the side. The showers, tubs, and saunas have smaller sex-segregated units along with a central group unit that's larger.))

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Alex still jumped from the contact, a bit more violently than he had been lately. He looked up fearfully, expecting to still see the demon, and still partly expecting her to hurt him, maybe for fun or something.

Seeing that Alessa was looking more like a normal human though he smiled weakly at her. "Th-thanks. I j-just wanna b-be able ta u-use my p-powers f-from time t-to time w-without f-fear of l-loosing c-control. I r-really w-would rather b-be without this. M-my sk-kill is with c-computers, n-not emotions."

Alessa watched his reaction with interest. When he calmed down, she gave him a bemused look. He was a very flighty kid: she could see that the Overlord was going to have his work cut out for him. Just as well: there would be no point in having Alex as a minion if he did not first need work.

"But there are several people on this ship able to use their computer knowledge. I would imagine you would like something that distinguishes you from every other person: it is, after all, a unique ability."

He was quiet for a minute, considering the demon's words. "I... dunno. I've w-wanted m-most of m-my life t-ta just be n-normal. T-to not h-have all the shit this w-world makes p-people go through thrown in m-my face every day." His voice cracked a bit towards the end of that. It was a feeling he didn't exactly often share. He spent most of his time smiling and pretending that he wasn't as effected by things as he really was.

Not having anyone else who was faced with the same thing every day was wearing on him. Even if he didn't talk with Mikel or Loretta about it, but sometimes walking down the street, a knowing glance was enough.

She stared at him for a long time, as if evaluating what she was going to say to him. Finally, she had a response.

"If you were a demon, you would be surrounded by the stink of human and their discretions all of the time. It's rare to have humans who are prone to the same sort of thing, but you know, you are fortunate. You have the soul to still want to strive to be better than you human counterparts. Demons...we don't."

But she would reserve that judgment for Sasami. No one needed to know that.

Alex slumped where he sat. "I-I think, it's a h-human thing, or, well, a l-lot of r-races, maybe, b-but, the expression's... you know what I m-mean." He buried his face in his hand at his own blathering and sighed.

"Th-the thing is, i-if a Sh-Shadow Eater doesn't l-lose it, th-they seem ta t-try t-to be b-better than the p-people that c-cause the pain. I-it's... n-not really that s-special."

Alessa watched him, wondering exactly what he had gone through in his time. It wasn't exactly, more like understanding the idea of suffering and how it could affect the very way a human interacted with their own world. Human Alessa had certainly found a way to interact with her own world.

"So you don't feel that you could do what was possible to help others with your ability? If you do, I can't see why it wouldn't be advantageous."

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