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Offline Rhi-Rhi

Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #20 on: June 16, 2012, 10:50:43 am »
Asher stared at Hanguin for a moment, then let out a low groan. "Fuck my life," he muttered as he rose to his feet and turned toward the guard. "Ya gonna get 'im or what?"

"If the patient is too weak to to stand, he should take his meal inside his--"

"Yeah, fuck that, too," Asher cut in and, with a sigh, he marched over to Hanguin and turned him shoulder toward him, not looking at him. He had limits, after all. He wasn't gonna babysit this new guy. If he wanted help, he needed to help himself, so a shoulder to lean on was the extent of his offer and it was up to him to take it on his own.

It would have been easy to just leave him here, and Asher had half a mind to. But damn, the guy was way too fucking pathetic to leave behind. It was shameful, secondhand embarrassment and all.
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #21 on: June 19, 2012, 01:58:20 pm »
Hanguin was surprised to see his roommate offer his shoulder, he was surprised to be helped. He reached out and grabbed Asher's shoulder, steadying himself before stepping forward. "Thank you..." He said softly, looking at his roommate. He wasn't a bad person was he?
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #22 on: June 19, 2012, 03:57:29 pm »
Asher shrugged off his gratitude. "Whatever," he said and, once Hanguin was in place, he started to walk.

Glad to be out of the stifling room, he lead the way out and down a corridor, flanked by the guards. It wasn't a long walk to the mess hall which was fashioned much like you'd expect to see in a prison, complete with a cafeteria-style set-up. Other subjects served the food, even.

"Fancy, huh?" Asher said as he stepped into line.
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #23 on: June 20, 2012, 12:49:16 am »
Hanguin held on to the other's shoulder, trying not to stumble. He did fairly well, though feeling the guard's eyes on him didn't ease his mind any. It took him a moment to realize that he was touching someone... actually touching someone, and not at the mercy of their emotions. He hated touching people before, and always wore special gloves to prevent actual contact... but in here his abilities were blocked. For some reason the realization made him shiver. His empathy had always been a burden, but it was part of him.

When they reached the mess hall Hanguin lifted his head to look around, but he didn't see any other Dimuroites. He felt even more ill. He hoped to see some of his kind, there were so many taken... where were they? "It's just lovely..." He muttered after a moment, the bitter sarcasm of his words sounded foreign even to his ears.
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #24 on: June 27, 2012, 03:25:43 pm »
"That's the spirit!" Asher said with a wide grin and reached up to ruffle the guy's hair. "Before long, you'll be just as bitter and disillusioned as the rest of us."

Asher grabbed a tray with one hand and shrugged the shoulder Hanguin was clinging to. "Yer gonna have to let go now."
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #25 on: June 29, 2012, 10:52:38 pm »
Hanguin could't help but shy away from Asher's touch when the other ruffled his hair. It was automatic to resist being touched... but of course it didn't matter now. He was already touching Asher, he knew his ability didn't work here, but it was just a knee-jerk reaction.

He shifted to stand on his own and took a tray as well. "Can I ask you something?" He was still a bit unsteady, but he was mustering his strength. He knew he'd feel better after eating and resting. "Have you seen other people that look like me here?"
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #26 on: July 09, 2012, 02:36:10 pm »
Asher snorted and gave Hanguin a flat look.

 "Askin' if ya can ask a question is a question, innit?" he said, and then shook his head. "But nope. Ain't seen no one like ya. Yer the first. Why?"
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #27 on: July 10, 2012, 04:31:12 am »
Hanguin looked down and steadied himself again. "...They bring my people here... we are sold here." His heart ached thinking about it, like it was breaking. He didn't want to say aloud what he feared most. "So many of us have been sold here." He muttered softly. "But I'm the only one with psionic abilities..." Hanguin felt in his gut that it was the only reason he was still alive right now.
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #28 on: July 15, 2012, 03:33:35 pm »
"So...? Maybe that's why," Asher said with a shrug and moved down the line as the people in front of him shuffled along. "We're in Wing Omega. Psychic wing. Might be the others are in Alpha."
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #29 on: July 23, 2012, 06:06:01 pm »
"Maybe..." Hanguin felt so weak still and just wanted to sit and eat and then he could sleep or die or whatever. "What is... what kind of people go to Alpha?"
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #30 on: July 26, 2012, 01:35:59 pm »
"Alpha's fer the mages."

Asher set his tray down on the counter and let the folks on the other side fill up his plate, telling them to go easy on the gravy, before looking back at Hanguin. "So, if yer people are magical-types or somethin', if they're here, they're probably there. Good luck findin' 'em, though."
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #31 on: July 26, 2012, 03:59:53 pm »
Hanguin watched feeling almost more nauseous as food was put on his plate. Unlike Asher he offered up no direction for what he was given. He let his new roommate's words sink in a bit and his stomach sank with them. "...We aren't magical either..." He muttered softly as he tried to clear his mind of the increasingly obvious and harsh reality.
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #32 on: July 29, 2012, 10:31:19 pm »
"Eh?" Asher reached the end of the line and picked up his tray, pausing to wait for Hanguin to finish up. He tilted his head, face scrunched up in confusion.

"The hell's with the long face? That means they ain't here."
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #33 on: July 29, 2012, 11:12:08 pm »
Hanguin followed Asher down the line and then steadied himself one last time before picking up his tray. "...That means they are dead." The words made him feel sicker as they left his mouth and he wished right away that he could take them back, maybe then they would seem less truthful.
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #34 on: August 04, 2012, 02:21:54 pm »
Asher was quiet for a moment, watching Hanguin, and stepped a little closer so he could steady the tray if the guy totally lost it. He wasn't good with shit like this. Wasn't good with being all emotional and supportive and crap--he was far too cynical for that. All he had was honesty.

"That means they ain't here," he repeated, and shot Hanguin a pointed look. "Better dead than here."
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #35 on: August 04, 2012, 03:21:13 pm »
Those words hit Hanguin hard. TRIM had always been a looming nightmare solely because he was a Dimuroite. The threat of being sent here for experimentation, and being used piece-meal for blood and parts... it was something that he had known about for decades. He tried to keep the same sort of knowledge from as many of his people as possible... but the older ones all knew what would happen if they were sold here. All the nightmares, the thoughts... they were short though. His tissues and blood would be sampled, cataloged and harvested. Death. He had never really thought about being useful to the monsters here for other things.

Of course as a psychic, he was. Hanguin had to assume that the end would be the same, but how long till it came? Maybe it was better if the others were dead... then they wouldn't still be suffering. But if they were dead, they were dead. The thoughts circled around in his head as he moved to sit at a table, only slightly aware that Asher was ready to support him if needed, but auto-pilot had kicked in, and while he was still sluggish and not quite steady, his mind was at least off his hunger and pain for a moment.

The ideas still swirled in his head as he ate slowly despite his fierce hunger, he knew better than to scarf down the food, he'd only feel worse if he did. "...Would you rather be dead than here?" Hanguin asked Asher before he realized he had. He was doing that sort of thing a lot today.
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #36 on: August 06, 2012, 01:43:07 am »
It was obvious the news had hit Hanguin hard, but there was nothing Asher could do about it. The guy had to deal. There was no way to soften things because this was reality and it would only get worse from here. No sense lying just to make someone feel better; that was far more cruel than brutal honesty.

He took a seat at the table and was quiet as he ate, watching the other listless faces around them. He had gotten through about half his meal when Hanguin spoke again, and Asher glanced at him out of the corner of his eye, expression blank.

"Depends on what day it is."
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #37 on: August 06, 2012, 10:15:08 pm »
Hanguin felt considerably better now that he was getting some food in him, physically better at least. Mentally he was vastly approaching emptiness and an implosion of grief, well he had been at least.

He lifted his head to look at Asher after the other answered his question. So there was hope, and it wasn't only death. Asher seemed so... strong still. Hanguin had to admire that. He had never been strong for himself. He would put up a strong facade for his crew and his people, but inside he always felt like he was cracked and breaking. He wasn't as good a leader as his brother Jahsklo, or their parents. He had been falling apart since they sent Kyssimri away. Just a mess of constant grief and the heavy burden of his people's safety from a system that treated them like livestock.

And that was only his own emotions. If he took on anyone else's, well at times he felt like he would die. He had spent so much time with it all inside him, all the worry, all the problems but now... well it didn't matter. There was nothing he could do, he was here- trapped in Hell, and it was somehow liberating.

Hanguin found himself chuckling lightly at that response. "How is today looking?" He asked somehow glad for the sarcasm and wit that his roommate possessed.

Whatever they did to him here would never compare to what Hanguin had done to himself emotionally, worrying about thousands of people ending up here and being responsible for all of them. He wasn't responsible anymore. His heart and mind would always be with his people, but he had to accept that he had done everything he could for them, and he couldn't stress about them now.

Today, he was here. It might be a place worse than death, but he was alive and there was nothing final about that.
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #38 on: August 08, 2012, 12:26:53 am »
"Hmm..." Asher spooned some potatoes into his mouth, chewed, and rolled his eyes ceiling-ward as he mulled that over. Swallowing that mouthful, he shrugged and offered up a crooked grin.

"Right now? I'm happy to be alive," he said. "Feelin' pretty alright today. Been left alone fer the day, not in any pain, don't feel sick, got someone whose brain is all there to talk to...right now, I guess I can see the point."

For a while there, he hadn't seen the point at all, not after Cass vanished. Maybe they'd moved him to a different room. Maybe he'd died. He had no way of knowing and that had killed him in a way he hadn't anticipated. For a while, he'd stopped caring--and he still struggled with apathy, faced with the futility of it all. But the fight was slowly coming back, the hope...because hope was all he had. It kept him human.

And if he was gonna die here, he was gonna die loud, proud, and with his humanity still intact.
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Re: New roomie? [Nix!]
« Reply #39 on: August 08, 2012, 03:54:48 am »
Hanguin smiled. Not the reassuring smile he would put on for his crew, filled with doubt and worry. He actually smiled. Something he hadn't done since Kyssimri was small. "Today we are alive and in good company and we will fight tomorrow if death tries to take us." His first mate Tahshkei used to say that, but the words held new meaning now.

He finished eating and felt much better all around. There was hope, the Light could reach even here. Let come what may come and let go of what goes, the wind's gunna blow where the wind's gunna blow and we'll never know why it flows where it flows, let come what may come and let go of what goes. He prayed silently this time because Asher had been a bit jaded about it before.

"I am glad you are alright Asher, thank you for being so kind to me already." He was going to survive, but he had something he had to do, had to know. "...how closely do they monitor our conversations in here? ...where would be the best place to... talk?" He asked softly.
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