trans_9 | Roaming, restless [After Dungeon Keeper]

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Roaming, restless [After Dungeon Keeper]

Morgan was restless.

When restless, he tended to roam the ship, checking on things he knew of, or seeking out places he didn't out of curiosity. Today was a little of both. After the pitched battle in Hydroponics, he felt a particular obligation towards one plant in particular: the apple tree he'd helped Applejack grow from a seed. For all that he'd done his best to contain Hydroponic in the fight, he hadn't been able to do anything specific to protect that plant.

Done there, he headed back down in the City, off to one particular place that had caught his interest when he had heard about it: an 'air temple'. Not on the map, not listed in the directory, or he'd have wandered over just to take a look a long time ago. Now that he'd heard about it, well...

Time to investigate.

[OOC: Just say where you find him; it can be pretty much anywhere, since his trip covers a lot of ground across the ship.]

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"I went down a path like that once," he said, thoughtfully. "It was a long time ago, getting revenge..."

"For twelve years of my life, I ate, breathed, slept and shat revenge. Revenge was one of the emotions that kept me going, first when I found out about mom, and then when I lost dad. I know as a mage you know better now, but for me it was one of those emotions that drew me in, that leveled me. Once that was over though, I didn't really know what to do with myself, where to go. It's the drawback to revenge: after its over, if you're still alive, you need a new place to start."

Morgan couldn't help but smile, wry and regretful though it was. "Trust me, being a mage doesn't make you a better or wiser person. Just the opposite, a lot of the time. I learned better because I grew as a person. Hell, the mistakes I made were long after I Awakened."

"Then maybe I just need to grow as a person." Mindy did not say this without a tone of amusement. "But then, now that I think about it, being stuck on this ship guarantees something is going to happen. Maybe I can find a way to believe here."

"...If I mention that my sister is a werewolf, are you gonna try to figure out how to become one of those too?" he said with a grin.

"That's just stupid," Mindy said, looking partially offended, but grinning. "Who the hell wants to be the reason teen girls are all jazzed up and dreamy eyed over lame shit?"

Granted, that was just one series but it was bad enough to ruin an entire franchise. "Besides, I'm actually serious about this."

Morgan missed that reference entirely. "What?" he said, lifting an eyebrow. "Uh, if teen girls are jazzed-up and dreamy-eyed about my sister, that would be realllllllly weird." Though he looked down at himself. "I mean, over me, sure, but obviously she's fraternal."

Mindy chuckled. "Sorry, just a reference to one of the weirdest damn cult books I've seen in awhile. trust me, if your sister read it, she probably wouldn't stop puking for a week. But that's still pretty cool, that she's a werewolf. How does that happen again."

"It's genetic... sort of. There's a spiritual component to it as well, but basically, if you're related to a werewolf, you're Kinfolk. If two Kinfolk, or a Kin and a werewolf, have a child, there's a small chance the child will also be Garou. In this case, my dad was the werewolf and my mom was the Kinfolk. That also means I'm kin, so if you know any really hot werewolf girls..." He grinned, teasing. Obviously she didn't, here or before.

Yeah, Mindy unfortunately didn't get out much, and she figured she was a horrible match maker as a result. In any case, it was still pretty interesting to learn about that part of Morgan. "Then you guys probably do look pretty different. I gotta say though, I'm real curious to learn about your world now, with all the stuff that goes on in it."

"We both got my mom's hair and skin tones. Otherwise she takes after my mom and I take after my dad." Or at least that's what pictures, and friends of the family, said.

"It's Earth," he said with a shrug. "There's just a whole lot behind the scenes, where most people never notice it."

"Then she must look good too then," Mindy said loftily, swimming in a circle. "If I'm judging by tone and hair, since yours is a good combo at any rate."

Earth? Really? How had there been Jedi on Earth and she didn't know about it? Must be another one of those alternate dimension type of things. "How do people not notice werewolves and magic?"

He shrugged, not being inclined to pass judgment on his sister's looks. "Because everyone wants them covered up. Mages, werewolves, vampires, everything else, not one of them wants a hint of the existence of the supernatural getting out to the masses."

Yeah, that sounded a lot like her version of earth, what with the covering up of everything so that humans didn't start to get all about their business.

"That makes sense: people might go ballistic if they knew magic and separate dimensions actually existed in other parts of the universe. I can't speak well for people in my world: a lot of the time, they tend to be pretty violent, me included, and pretty intolerable. But some of us also know we can be better than what we were made to be, you know?"

"That IS the downside. The more people stop believing in magic...." He exhaled, then finally let himself drop into the water up to his neck.

"But that's not gonna happen here, right?" Mindy said, looking as if the idea of something happening to Morgan bothered her more than she let on. "I mean, people here are all full of magic. It can't affect you, can it?"

"Here on the ship? No, it's very easy to work magic here." He stood up, put his palms flat on the pool's water, then blithely did a handstand on the surface as if it were solid. "People believe in magic, of all sorts."

She watched him, not saying anything. The more she watched Morgan and what he could do, and particularly after all that happened recently, the more she wanted to learn to do what he could. But it was more than that, than just protecting the guys she knew about, or just getting stronger.

"Morgan," she said, "if someone you really cared about was gone, like what happened, how do you deal with that?"

Well, that was a hell of a question. He flipped lightly back into the water, sinking down into it again as he pondered how to answer.

"Tough call," he said, finally. "I don't think the ways I've dealt with it in the past would work for you. The situations are too different. I think the first question is... really, how do you feel? In utter honestly, deep down?"

Mindy wasn't the type of girl who went for easy questions. She PREFERRED easy answers, but she knew those were only temporary, hence why she was asking this to begin with.

"No, I already know from what you told me that I can't go acting that way. But in that fight before, and after, I didn't really deal with it, not really. I killed a bunch of robots and then I did busy work until I had to finally go and face my girlfriend. I made my peace eventually, but I'm more worried about what will happen the next time, if someone uses my feelings against me. It was suggested that I lost some of my actual fighting stamina in that last one, when my dad was liquefied."

Shit, tears? Now? She wiped them, shaking her head. "And I don't want to lose my shit in a fight, when there's so much at stake."

"Who are you afraid of losing?" he asked, watching her. "Your girlfriend, for one, obviously..."

Damn. Ask a hard question, get a hard question. And it was one she had to think about, very closely, before she answered.

"Myself. Sounds weird, right? But I mean, I know that all of this I'm doing, two sides of a person, killing in an extreme way, taking the worst thing that happened to me and shoving it down, it moves closer and closer to one day something happening that triggers my melt down. Everybody, in some way or another, triggers the way they leave their body, and I know ultimately, I'll do the same, I even know a little how. But I want to be able to retain who and what I am, the people I care about, because...because its not a lot that I have, but its mine, you know?"

"No, that's not weird. I understand that perfectly." The choices we made... made choices for us.

"I have an answer for you. I don't know if you'll like it. Do you want to hear it anyway?" He did expect that she would say yes, but this way, well, he'd warned her.

It was a lot to take in. There were already things that Mindy had decided she was going to do, but she knew her feelings were something that needed fixing: they could make her weak at any moment, and she needed to use them, at the worst of times, to her advantage. She had agreed with the Overlord on something: she WAS acting out of anger that day, and it had probably been good he was there, as their banter kept her focused.

"Yeah. I'd like to know what you would say to all that."

He folded his arms beneath the water, not aggressively, just contemplative.

"You can't. You can't hold onto what you have. Time always flows. Things changes, and so do people, so will you. Just by telling you this, I'm changing you, and I'm changing our relationship, one way or the other. In two minutes, we'll be different from how things were two minutes ago. A friendship can end in a heartbeat, out of nowhere, and another can form in that short a time too."

He lifted a hand out of the pool, water spilling out of his palm. "People die. Stuff changes. Hold onto what was and you'll only hurt yourself. That doesn't mean you can't try to change it back, though, not the small stuff. But it also means you need to accept change, too. Even horrible change."

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What the hell happened to my words in the last post?!

They wanted to go to space.

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