towerofanimus | and mortal men and all things

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and mortal men and all things

Characters: The Disciple and you!
Setting: Room 2-05 and everywhere!
Format: Starting in action, will match!
Summary: The Disciple arrives and goes investigating.
Warnings: None at the moment?

[The Disciple awakes with a start, and panic sets in as she struggles to move for those first moments of being paralyzed. The moment she's free, she springs up and out of the bed in a flurry of sheets and hair. She stares around wildly, wondering if she's been captured despite her caution. In the next few minutes, she finds the letters and reads them, and then locates the chest and changes her clothing.

She slips out of the room cautiously and down the hallway, keeping herself pressed to the wall to keep as out of view as she can. But it's a little hard to hide when there's nothing in the halls to hide behind.]

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Yeah, we are. And Psi's all right by some sense of the word, but I wouldn't say he's 'all right'. [Sighs and squeezes] He was taken as a slave again, before coming here. And the Condesce and Dualscar are here to fuck his think pan up even more, even if we weren't prisoners.

[She chews on her lip, listening intently.]

We have to do something about this. I'm not sure what but... I can't let him suffer again. Back there, I ran and hid but I never tried to go back for anyone, and I simply cannot repeat that mistake.

Di... don't worry about that. There's nothing you could have done. [yeah, the same refrain everyone's been feeding him, but no one ever said he wasn't an enormous bulge-munching hypocrite]

I could have tried, but I didn't. My cowardice is not something I'm proud of. I want to do my best to help here.

[He snorted] That is the most ridiculous fucking thing I've ever heard spew from your wind tube, and you say some pretty silly things sometimes. In what way are you a coward? In no way, that's what.

In every way! [She frowns, brows furrowing.] I merely ran away and hid. What about that is not cowardice, Signless?

[She's angry for a moment longer before she sighs and glances away.] This is not the time to argue.

Nope. [He paps her and smiles] You did the smart thing. You couldn't have helped me, or Psi, or Dolorosa. I'm glad that you survived, so no more arguing now.

[She smiles, putting her hand over his. She still feels terrible, but she knows he's probably right about this.]

I do hope my decision was the right one. Still, I'll do my best to protect you here if I can. I won't lose you again.

[He smiles and paps her face lightly]

Likewise. Now, shall I bring you back to say hi to Psiioniic?

Is that really even a question that needs asking? Of course I want to go see him.

[He grins and takes her hand] This way, then.

Alright. [She follows obediently, squeezing his hand lightly.]

[⑸iioniic is curled up on his sleeping rectangle, back tucked into the corner in a reflexive defensive position, front towards the door so he can see anyone who comes in. He's reading a book he took from the library - with no personal computer to keep him occupied, he'd decided that books are the next best thing.

He looks up and smiles when Signless enters, but his eyes go wide when he sees who is behind his friend.] Di! You're here, you're okay! SS told me you were here before but he hasn't been able to find you!

[Signless grins and trots over to Psiioniic, sitting down on the sleeping rectangle as well]

Looks like she left the tower and forgot everything, but she's back now, so whatever, I guess.

Oh! [He looks at Di, flushing slightly] I forgot to mention on the way over here, but Psii and I are moirails now.

[Disciple hurries over, suddenly so relieved that she can see that he's really alright. she's worried so much over all of them since she ran. Hope you're prepared for a hug!]

Yes, I'm afraid I don't remember a thing about this place if I was here before. [She brightens at the news.]

That's wonderful! I'm happy for the both of you.

[Hugs are good! He's gotten rather used to them here in the tower, there's a lot of humans who like to hug him. And a fair number of young trolls, for that matter. He hugs her back tightly, just as happy to see her.

He does go a little tense when Signless mentions their new moiraillegiance, but relaxes again when Disciple is happy about it. He'd been a little nervous about horning in between them, which isn't normally a worry between moirails and matesprits but... well, Disciple and Signless had always had a particularly close relationship.]

Well, I can't say it's my favourite place in the world... especially after what they did to me... but considering SS is alive and I get to see you again, and I'm not wired to a ship, I'm not really complaining much. I wonder if Dolorosa is going to shop up?

[Signless had been a tiny bit worried, too, but in his opinion, Psiioniic needed the moirallegiance far too much for him to be tentative with Disciple's feelings. Besides, he had been pretty sure she would be happy for them.

He wraps his arms around both of them, content for the moment.]

I hope she does come. I'm tired of falling over all these wrigglers who look like her.

I'm so sorry, Psiioniic. I heard about what they did to you, and back home- Even if these conditions are less than favorable, I'm glad I'm able to see you both again.

[It isn't hard for her to come to the conclusion that they've needed each other, especially in a place like this. After hearing about the experiments, she's glad they had each other to rely on.]

There are wrigglers here who resemble her?

[Wow, okay, this might just be the best thing ever. Being hugged by two of his closest friends. AND Di isn't mad at them. The only thing that would make it better would be Dolorosa's presence.]

Not jutht resemble her, Di. Her Descendant. Mine ith here too, and SS's, it's really weird. And multiple versionth of them, in some cases. [He smiles, and reaches out to touch her cheek] Back home... someone told me that you'd ethcaped, somehow. I was really glad.

Yeah, it's creepy as fuck. There are doubles of everyone running around all over the place, and half of them have the wrong blood colour or something. [He smiles and nudges Disciple] None of you, yet. But probably she'll show up with tyrian blood and love barkbeasts or something like that.

[She chooses not to talk about her escape, opting for the lighter subject at hand. There's plenty of time to talk about that later, once she'd pieced it together herself. She still wasn't sure why he had let her go, no matter how much mulled it over.

She scrunches her nose at the image.]

That would be nothing short of a nightmare! Barkbeasts, really! [Shoving him lightly. She's never liked those things.] Still, I'd love to meet these descendants. What are yours like?

[The idea of Disciple as the Empress makes Ψiioniic sputter and laugh.] I don't know. I think you'd make a pretty good Empress, Di. The Impawriel Clawdescension has a nice ring to it.

My Descendant is... pretty awesome, actually. He's got all my powers, but he's only six or seven, so he's never been a slave. I got a chance to warn him... so maybe he can avoid it.

I haven't gotten a chance to talk to Karkat much, but he seems a lot like me, but concentrated. He's short, stubby, and even angrier.

I think you're onto something, Psiioniic. I would be the pawsitively best Empurress for Alternia. [She laughs. It's so nice to talk to them like this, just like old times.]

I'd like to meet them. I wonder what my Descendant is like. Do you think they would know?

Probably. It's funny, but pretty much everyone who's ever been important to one of us is part of their group in some way. Even if the relationships are a little twisted sometimes. [He shivers a little despite himself.] My Descendant's kismesis is the Descendant of Orphaner Dualscar. And I'm pretty sure he's got something going with the Heir, too, which utterly breaks my brain.

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Shall I snag Psi?

Sure! :>

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