We Are Our Avatars XI (Open)

[Gearhead mk2]

"Sorry. I was unaware. I'm not at my best in the sun either."

 

[Drakmorg]

[color=ff9966]"Why's that?"[/color] Nina asked, sounding gradually less tired and more curious.

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"My body doesn't take kindly to it." Candace told her, holding up her almost deathly pale hand. "Fair skin runs in the family. I burn easily."

 

[Vakra jal]

Dalahar had given a brief explanation of Storm birds, giant assault craft that could carry 50 marines like him or larger things like dreadnoughts and rhino apcs. The sokar pattern storm bird was the most common in use and was gigantic in the scale. One thing about everything that Dalahar missed was the scale. Everything was so small here. The buildings, the battles, the people, the stakes. Storm birds were giant engines of war and Dalahar had seen wings of thousands descend into a scorched battle scape, punching through any in their path, shrugging off all damage and disgorging legion astartes straight to the planet surface before taking off again to provide air support. Here there didn't seem to be any chance of anything as sweeping or grand as that. It had made him a tad jaded in all honesty.

 

[Drakmorg]

"It doesn't feel like I ever heard of anything like that." Nina replied. "Why are you so eager to be out in the day if it hurts you though?"

 

[Kirke]

Ella stayed silent as Dalahar talked, and then she said; "There has been large-scale war here on Earth. It is eighty years ago now, but when it ended, it was done with a weapon so terrifying that nobody dares all-out war again."

 

[Chungus]

Montreal, Bordeaux Prison, visitation room. Afternoon. March 3rd.​

"I'm not sure that could work. But then again, I'm not exactly a legal expert, so who knows"

, Kuki mused, then stayed quiet for a moment, to let Lambda talk.

"These things that would turn his people against this Krovis, what are they?"

they eventually asked.

 

[Silence]

Montreal, Quebec, Canada. March 3rd, 2025
- Bordeaux Prison -
Noon​

"Whatever you can think of, really. Krovis does not have any qualms.
He would also have more possibilities than when I was working for him.

But ... aside from threatening and killing family and friends, he could also turn them against you, through rumour-spreading or through mind-controlling them. He could hypnotize you. He could go with intimidation, or with manipulation, whatever is most eff ..." Anik said, but stopped at the end, seemingly remembering something she did not wish to say.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

Bounty Store, Evening March 3rd

The clerk waved as Green and Black left, making the sound of rustling paper as they moved their arm. The door would close behind the duo.

 

[Chungus]

Montreal, Bordeaux Prison, visitation room. Afternoon. March 3rd.​

After Anik spoke, Kuki waited for a moment to see if she would finish her sentence, speaking again when they found she wouldn't.

"It's okay, I've heard enough.

Well, I don't think there I can do for you. But, I wish you the best of luck."

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"I have to. I have duties to perform." Candace told Nina.

Lambda noticed Anik cutting herself off. "What is it? If you want to stop talking..."

 

[Silence]

Montreal, Quebec, Canada. March 3rd, 2025
- Bordeaux Prison -
Noon​

"Thank you, Kuki." Anik said, then turned to Lambda. "... I helped him. But you knew that.
You can ask me more if you want, I just can't promise I can answer it all."

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"Why does this man want to control you?" Lambda asked.

 

[Silence]

"Because of my unique ability to read hearts. He can't do this himself.
And I don't know if someone else could. And ... because of something else I do not want to talk about.

I ... I was one of his most important pieces in his game of power. Him losing me must have hurt him."

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"If he's that desperate to recapture you, he must be losing most of his power without you."

 

[Silence]

"I thought he did, but apparently not ...

... not that he had many enemies left. Only a foreign power could have stopped him."

 

[Gearhead mk2]

"Well these incursions into this world may prove too much for him." Lambda offered.

 

[Silence]

"Do you think he even would want to start something?
I mean ... he could just want me, and after manipulating White into going after me this directly ... he could try different ways. Ways noone would see as evil.

But he still would get me at the end. I ... I think I need to get away soon. I don't feel safe. The longer I think about it. How? Can you help me?"

 

[Chungus]

Montreal, Bordeaux Prison, visitation room. Afternoon. March 3rd.​

Having nothing more to say, Kuki kept quiet as Lambda and Anik talk, looking between the two as they did. As Anik asked how she could be helped, Kuki felt dismayed, not knowing the local justice system, thus having no ideas.

 

[Vakra jal]

"If only the myriad xenos and dejected humans of the Galaxy were so easily cowed" he said "the Legiones astartes wouldn't be needed if a for would surrender after 1 act of violence"