trans_9 | You can look, but you can't touch I don't think I like you much

Freedom, what a silly word.

No matter how free she was nothing changed. The constant creeping paranoia, every shadow a potential threat, every blind corner could be hiding an assassin.

But she wouldn't hide. She wouldn't cower! She had been cleaned up, though her hair still hung about her shoulders in untamed tresses of inky black shine.

This ship had to be explored, she had to know as much about it as she could. Knowledge was power and at the moment she felt particularly weak.

After so much time of being locked away, barely moving, not training. Her body had lost it's edge. Her strength and power had waned and she knew it.

Even if she wasn't aware the voices would never let her forget.

And so barefoot and looking lost in more ways then one the pale young girl slipped through the ship quietly watching, learning.

In time her strength would return.

And then the screams of those that had defied her would fill this ship.

Freedom had done wonders for her mood.

((OOC: So since she's just wandering about wherever you'd like to meet her just mention it in your post and we'll roll from there. ^_^ ))

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"Then we have something else in common, your Highness," Thom said. "I too am considered a prodigy - the youngest Master to graduate from the City of the Gods, and the most powerful."

All right, so perhaps that last part was a lie. But what difference did it make? He wasn't trying to be truthful, he was trying to impress.

"Then you understand the pressure that such a title can come with. How important it is for people like us to achieve the greatness that our abilities demand." And it was that same pressure that had driven her over the edge.

Oh, if only she knew. "Yes, Highness, I think it's fair to say I understand. Although the demands of royalty were not mine to meet, I had the pressures of nobility as well as the burden of being excessively talented."

People coming up to him in Court, awed by the stories of power to rival even the Duke's. Could he do this? Could he do that?

Could he raise a man from the dead?

All of that and more, Thom thought, smirking.

"As so few can imagine." Azula smirked right back. This boy was interesting to her. Something useful, something entertaining.

"And yet here we are, once again surrounded by people of lesser ability and value expected to do the work of gods" It sounded like such a chore.

"At the worst, some of these people are mediocre," Thom said. "But you may be surprised. There are more persons of talent and ability here than you would imagine. This ship... it is choosing people to save the world, so it's little wonder that it would pull some of 'the best,' as it were."

Thom, for one, had never been among so much different and varying talent. When he allowed himself, he grew unbearably excited at the prospect.

"An army of incredibly powerful beings, and yet as I understand it progress has been slow if at all. Why do you suppose that is?" She allowed herself a glance out into the Bleed gazing past her own reflection which seemed unsure and annoyed.

There was no reason not to tell her what he knew of the ship. After all, it would make her more inclined to trust him later if he told her the truth now. "From what I've been able to understand, the crew has barely any control over where the ship chooses to go. She assigns missions to certain crew members which we must complete, and attempting to go against her is pointless."

They were trapped under the ship's control. Most of the time she was relatively benign, but that fact still remained.

"No way to lead an army." Azula muttered, "Allowing the vessel to command the true power. It's all backwards."

Thom shrugged. "I am not a commander - the Captain has people working on it, is what they say. And as far as an army... most of us aren't, as far as I can tell. There is a military aboard but I only see them in passing. They're in the green uniforms."

The very green uniforms. At least his robes were black.

"Hmpf." That little pout was because Azula preferred an army in dark colored armor, but Thom couldn't know that.

"A challenge fit for someone of my abilities, yet a chore far too tedious for someone of my status. How bothersome."

"One might say it was the duty of someone of your status, not a chore," Thom said, his voice mild. He turned back to the Bleed so that Azula wouldn't be able to read his face - and he kept that blank anyway.

She was a funny, spoiled thing. Like what might happen if Deliah had ever been given power.

"One might." Her voice was measured carefully, "But I'm not so sure. My duty is to my family, my people, the same family and people who would have me locked away. I will need more time to decide on that subject."

As if she had a choice.

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