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cityship ([personal profile] cityship) wrote in [community profile] trans_92012-03-16 04:21 pm

Buy a Little Mercy [Open; Potentially Graphic Material]

Less than an hour after the ship leaves Agrestic's orbit, an announcement is broadcast throughout Stacy.

|| Attention, crew. Your crewmates, Howard Bassem and Charles Merriman, have been apprehended attempting to desert. They will now be given Punishment. According to established guidelines, you are all requested to report to the Observation to witness the Punishment. Attendance is not mandatory, but highly suggested. This will serve as a reminder of the consequences of treason and desertion. ||

On the observation deck, Archon Yavek, Archite Rekkti, two other Daligig and a handful of Kessek soldiers stand outside a spherical force field. Inside the bubble, Orc and Howard are suspended by tentacles looping around their wrists. Orc's ceased thrashing around and struggling against his restraints; rust-colored fissures have developed around his shoulders and forearms from the strain, but now he simply hangs there, looking defeated. Howard's nose is bleeding, and every time a drop falls to the bottom of the forcefield there's a small sizzle. He's weeping and begging the Daligig with every plea possible, but they act as if they aren't listening. Instead, they wait for an audience.
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Re: AFTERMATH

[personal profile] kaya_waterwave 2012-03-17 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
She was waiting in med bay, for reasons she knew would have made sense to no one. She met Orc once, and he was a nice guy. She knew that well enough and was concerned for him.

But Howard. Howard was her friend, her antagonist, a guy she couldn't begin to hope to understand but liked well enough. For that reason, for the rebellion she knew was inevitable, for her own sanity, she had waited in med bay. She knew herself well enough: every bit of training and every death strike she knew would have been levied at the Daligig approving this cowardly, disgusting, arrogant attack.

And she knew just as well that there WOULD be those that attacked the Daligig and they would be ending up here. And that was exactly what she wanted.

It was time to put the bus to good use.