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theshimmer2020-08-28 08:39 pm
shimmermods) wrote in theshimmer2020-08-28 08:39 pm
Continuation.
CONFRONTATION
Vitali doesn't seem inclined to come much closer to any of you; there's a wall of glass between her and you, and she appears to want to keep it that way. Any attempts to breach it are likely a terrible idea; just because there aren't any soldiers with them doesn't mean that they're unarmed, after all.
"So you've decided to act up," she says, her hands folded behind her back, her posture formal and stiff in a way that doesn't suit her; her gaze remains as icy as her words, though she's refraining from making direct eye contact with any one of you in particular. She's still audible, despite the glass; it isn't as all-encompassing as the Shimmer seemed to be whenever it spoke to you within the boundary, but it's sharp, commanding. "If that's what you want to do, then fine. We can talk about that. You guys haven't wanted to settle since you got back; maybe this will make you actually sit down for a moment.
"If you're going to talk, get it out of your system before we throw you back in quarantine and figure out what to do with you. And try to keep from launching at the glass or doing anything stupid to yourselves in the meantime. We'd hate to have a reason to classify any of you as a threat."
"So you've decided to act up," she says, her hands folded behind her back, her posture formal and stiff in a way that doesn't suit her; her gaze remains as icy as her words, though she's refraining from making direct eye contact with any one of you in particular. She's still audible, despite the glass; it isn't as all-encompassing as the Shimmer seemed to be whenever it spoke to you within the boundary, but it's sharp, commanding. "If that's what you want to do, then fine. We can talk about that. You guys haven't wanted to settle since you got back; maybe this will make you actually sit down for a moment.
"If you're going to talk, get it out of your system before we throw you back in quarantine and figure out what to do with you. And try to keep from launching at the glass or doing anything stupid to yourselves in the meantime. We'd hate to have a reason to classify any of you as a threat."
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[A pause.]
If it turns out it can't be done at all, in any way, then... you can go ahead and use me as a test subject or whatever, since I don't have anything to go back to otherwise.
[Just... casually putting that out there.]
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[Hell, she'll take Emma back to her own world if she has to. Schloss Ritter could use a groundskeeper.]
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Why not? I mean... last week living in a basement aside, this is still a step up from my home right now.
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You can go somewhere where you won't be a guinea pig for somebody else's science experiment, for starters.
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It's not as bad as being nothing at all.
[she... really doesn't have any plans for her future that doesn't involve either getting emily back or being useful in some way elsewhere]
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Surely there's better things you want to be?
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I want to be someone that can live by my angel's side.
... But the only way to achieve that is to bring her back to me somehow, or... go to her side on my own. And the latter would involve abandoning all of you to do it, which... I don't feel ready to do yet.
[So if being a lab experiment can help Emily or even her new friends here, then why not, right?]