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Bones 101 (Open)

Tilting her head a bit to the side, Temperance leans a little closer to the skeleton that was on the examining table. Obviously she is in one of the sensoriums which has kindly recreated her lab from the Jeffersonian. Sadly it hadn't bothered to give her a replica of Angela or Zack or Hodgins. Even though she likes to work alone, she has to admit she misses the constant barrage of chatter that seemed to follow where ever those three were.

Reaching out with a gloved hand, she runs her fingers gingerly over the skull before carefully picking it up and examining it closer. "Hmmm....." she mutters aloud. "The skeleton is in remarkably good shape. Female, and based on the dentition and condition of the vertebrae, she was fairly young. Possibly in the mid to late twenties, though no older than mid thirties."

It's not even a real dead body, but it's enough to keep Temeperance from going stir crazy and it actually in a way relaxes her.

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"Huh?" Cielo spins around at the sound of another voice, he does not like being snuck up on.

"I.."

He looks back and fourth between the two of them. He's still in a 'lab' and that idea is still making him irrationally jumpy. "Uh... No? Yes? I can turn inta one. I dunno how it works!"

Brennan looks up and smiles seeing Booth. She hadn't expected him to just pop in, but he's still a welcomed sight. "When did you come in?" she asks.

She quickly turns her attention back to Cielo, trying to take in all that he's saying. At the moment he didn't seem crazy... Just a little wary if anything.

"We don't have demons where we're from," she explains, she doesn't add that she doesn't even believe in demons though - it's probably pretty obvious.

"Everyone be dis way in De Junkyard." It is such a normal thing for him that the thought she may not actually believe in demons doesn't even occur to him. Cielo was wary, and his eyes are darting. It comes from and entire existence that revolved around survival.

While he may not look like it, Cielo is a soldier fresh from a war and there are behaviors and thought patterns that will probably always be programed into his mind.

"We don't have anything like you in our world," she repeats herself. She tilts her head a bit to the side, studying his facial features and bone structure. "You do appear rather humanoid though."

"We didn't use t'be dis way, just after we got de atma." He folds his arms across his chest and leans his weight onto his left leg. The mark on his right thigh seemed to pulse as though it knew it was being talked about. "Dats cus I haven changed into de demon?" Duh lady.

"So you being a demon is a new developement?" Tempe asks, just wanting to make sure she's following what he's saying.

"Ya. Dere was dis big light 'n we all woke up wit dese marks. De Karma Temple say dey de atma and dey give us de power of de demons." Cielo doesn't come across as proud of what he is, but it didn't seem to bother him either. He's just accepts that this is the way things are.

"Say dey are a reflection of our Karma."

Temperance's forehead scrunches up a bit as she tries to follow what he's saying. Karma? "How exactly would they be a reflection of your Karma?" She has to ask, she can't help it.

That... is actually a really good question. "I dunno. No one evah say, but all me comrades atma are different, and deir demons."

Temperance is just getting more and more confused, and honestly it's not a feeling she's much appreciating. She's pretty use to figuring things out the more she talks to someone, but now? Now is obviously not working for her.

"Oh, well that sounds fascinating..." She pauses, thinking for a moment. "So you don't know where this atma came from?"

"Dere was dis pod ting, ya? Between Muladhara and Svadhisthana! When we were fighting de Vanguards there was this big white light. When we woke up we got de marks and found Sera in de pod! Aftah dat we started turnin' inta de demons." Cielo gestures wildy with his hand when he speaks, and talks a bit fast and excitedly.

Her eyes widened slightly, trying to keep up with what Cielo was saying. She was getting most of it, but he was talking so fast and he had such a heavy accent that it wasn't the easiest thing in the world to do.

"Wait... Who's Sera?" This was the first he'd brought Sera and she, it... Seemed important to his story.

"Sera's special. She me comrade!" He says, finally letting his hands fall back to his sides. "She de only one wit out de atma, and when she sing she make de hunger stop. So we gotta protect her."

"You... get a hunger?" Temperance asks, her eyes widening a bit. "A hunger for what exactly?" She's pretty sure she knows the answer, she just wants to hear it from him to confirm her thoughts.

"And is Sera here?"

"Demons get really hungry. De Karma Temple say we gotta eat de living, gotta devour our enemies before dey do us, ya know?" To be honest he's never tried eating anything else. There was nothing else.

Cielo pouts at the mention of Sera and shakes his head. There is some subtle, lingering programing wired into him that drives him to make Sera happy. Leaving her locked in a pod is not going to be making her happy, so he's terribly frustrated about it. "No, but she gotta be down in de pods, ya? De whole tribe gotta be! I wanna go break dem outta dere!"

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"So you only eat flesh and nothing else?" She asks, sort of surprised. She's sort of expected him to eat other things as well, but that didn't seem like the case here.

How was he going to survive on this ship?

She scratches her chin as she thinks. "Well it would seem to be a logical conclussion that the others he knows are in the pods. Booth had been in one as well. "Maybe you should check, though on the other hand.... It could be dangerous for them if you try to free them before Stacy plans to. We don't know anything about the pods."

She shrugs. "Maybe you should try to research the pods before you try to set them free."

"Ya. Ain't nevah needed t'eat anytin else b'fore. De only ot'er tings we had were more like... medicine?" To say it worried him is an understatement. Granted starving to death is not something anyone would look forward too, but it wasn't that simple. Not for him.

"Research? How do I do dat? I try t'look at de pods when I woke up but Stacy, she stab me in de neck wit sometin and it made me all funny." Not that he wasn't willing to get stabbed in the meck a thousand times if it meant getting his friends out, but if he could avoid it? Far be it for him to complain.

"Well I don't think you'll be allowed to eat anyone's flesh here," Temperance points out. "I believe you're going to have to get use to eating the same food everyone else does." And she didn't think the others would like the idea of a cannibal in their midst.

"Well since you've already tried examining the pods, I'd suggest looking in the midea library. Maybe look up the pods and see what their energy source is and maybe you could find out who designed them. Another thing to try is to see if there's some record of the layout of our own pods. It might make searching for your friends easier."

"You tink it'll work?" He actually decides it would be better to not correct her on the 'flesh' thing. To him that just means skin, his tribe eats everything. Flesh, meat, bones, organs, and whatever else they might have on them at the time. It's not uncommon for them to cough up things that aren't digestible.

He can't even count the times he needed to ask for help to get something unstuck from his teeth or throat. Though it's really not his fault, his demon form doesn't have elbows.

Her suggestion made him smile. Cielo has been told often enough that he isn't very smart. He's far from stupid, but sometimes he needs a little guidance to point him in the right directions. "Okay! I can do dat! Only... what is a 'media library?"

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