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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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[personal profile] couldputitback 2012-03-18 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
She stared, agape. "You truly believe that, don't you?" she asked, horror in her tone. "That whatever you do is justified, so long as you win."

Why it should surprise her, Faiza didn't know. But it did and she felt ill to her stomach. "There is no defense for this. You are torturing them because you can."

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[personal profile] meat_mooks 2012-03-18 08:20 am (UTC)(link)
"The entire multiverse is at stake," Yavek snaps. "We can't afford to lose. We must win. That on its own is defense enough for this."