thefinaljedi | Appointments

Appointments

This thread is for IC Appointments. If you need to reach Luke for anything, feel free to leave a message here.

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It is a prison. Thankfully, someone else sees it for that.

[He shakes his head and stares at the false sky.]

Frankly, I think too many people are starting to feel too settled here. And far, far too comfortable. We should be focusing on finding ways to protect ourselves. Too many barriers have been broken by the Third Party, and the Malnosso are seemingly always too slow to react.

There are a few who do, it seems. But not enough. We are caged here, to be used, killed and dragged back at the whim of our captors. It is not a good, peaceful life.

[Knives has learned to manage his hate pretty well, but this sort of ... of slavery hit on every single trigger that was most likely to induce bloody rage. It's probably for the best he lacked the power he once had.]

Protecting ourselves is good. Being able to fight back is better. They've found a way to hobble the power of most people here, surely there would be a way to shut it off.

[He doesn't sound like he believes it, but hope is a fragile thing.]

I will never .. be settled here. It is a miracle, this much life and this much water, but the price for it is too high.

[Luke nods in agreement. The cost is far, far too high for what little benefit is offered]

Time. Give it time, and we'll find some answers I'm sure.

I disagree.

[Luke is given a brief, unreadable glance, emotions subdued.]

The people who have been here the longest are those most settled into this life. Time is our enemy.

[Time is his enemy. How long did he have left? Weeks? That wouldn't be long enough to see Vash freed from this place..]

[He can't agree with that assessment.]

I don't know, have you met Law and Raine? They've been here for years, and they're all but hellbent on escape. Shikamaru, Ami, Albert, Gai...there are people who have been here more than five years and they're just as bent on escape as you or I.

I wouldn't say time is our enemy, necessarily. Time is the enemy of some, but those are the people who've done little to change the situation, from what I've seen.

I have met none of the people you have mentioned. Nor have I heard anything greater than even the mildest of discontent with this place, save from you. Not even my brother seems concerned.

[Knives' smile is thin.]

You could say I don't spend a lot of time chatting with humans.

[Luke's own smile is tired, but understanding.]

Yeah, I got that impression. I don't know what to say, honestly. There've been plenty of people voicing discontent, but maybe not openly. I find it's best to avoid talking about anything we want private on the journals or in any building made by the Malnosso. They do bug them.

I don't do much with that ... journal. It is convenient for keeping tabs on my brother and little else. But I have my doubts that there are those here who truly wish their freedom. It is part of humanity's nature to ... 'make the best of what they have'. It's a psychological adaption. Your kind are well-suited to captivity and slavery.

[Nothing in how Knives says it, makes it sound like he ever wanted to keep a human slave. It sounds more like biological fact the way he says it, like one might say 'lions eat meat'.]

You will deny it, and cite rebellion across time as proof, and yet all I will do is point to the countless human lives living under oppression and doing nothing at all, because it is comfortable... ....And I can do little to try to save any of you, here, even if I wished to. I can do very little to save myself, never mind another.

[There's a small pause.]

How much do you know, of the effect or power that brings the dead to life here?

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Appointments

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