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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] not_the_philistine 2012-04-17 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
His vision went, again, to the ring of scar tissue around his wrist as he stroked Elisa's hair.

He had never had a scar before. And now he would never hold his beloved, would never stroke her hair as he was accustomed, without a reminder of the risks they faced.

It was an unsettling notion, even to someone who had never spent a night unprepared to die defending his home, his clan, if he had to. But it did not lessen the comfort of having this moment to hold his beloved safely in his arms.

He drew back to look her in the eyes as he stroked her hair. "I must fight for this crew. To do less would be to submit to the evil we witnessed today, and that I cannot abide - but know in your heart, that wherever I go in this universe, while our home is lost to us, you are my home. And I will never give up on returning to your side, not while any breath of life is left in me."