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orderfromchaos) wrote2015-04-17 11:39 pm
orderfromchaos) wrote2015-04-17 11:39 pm
32. recrudesce (backdated to late on Wednesday)
[Public Video, planetside]
[Before the feed opens, something happens, a pressure in the air, like a slowly burgeoning thundercloud finally loosing rain. The weight of weariness and doom falls a little bit lighter; withered plants seem slightly less desolate. The effect is uneven and spread thin, the farther from him it goes, but palpable in some places nevertheless.
Dillon looks wrong, in a lot of small ways. His skin is a little mottled, raw in places and leathery in others, new-made and not always with enough moisture to reabsorb, cheeks a little hollower. He's holding himself differently, a raw, skewed raggedness, shoulders sloping, eyes dark and intense. His voice cracks when he talks, vocal cords as new as the rest of him.]
Someone tell me what the hell is going on.
[Before the feed opens, something happens, a pressure in the air, like a slowly burgeoning thundercloud finally loosing rain. The weight of weariness and doom falls a little bit lighter; withered plants seem slightly less desolate. The effect is uneven and spread thin, the farther from him it goes, but palpable in some places nevertheless.
Dillon looks wrong, in a lot of small ways. His skin is a little mottled, raw in places and leathery in others, new-made and not always with enough moisture to reabsorb, cheeks a little hollower. He's holding himself differently, a raw, skewed raggedness, shoulders sloping, eyes dark and intense. His voice cracks when he talks, vocal cords as new as the rest of him.]
Someone tell me what the hell is going on.
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You got burned up, Dillon. She told me she exploded you.
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[He rubs his mouth, like he's trying to press the bitterness out of it.]
What about the rest? Dean took care of them?
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Where are you right now? You in port?
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But if the ship isn't -
[What does that mean.]
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... When you get back, I'm gonna give you a hug.
[Because she needs one badly, and for reasons she doesn't know, nobody - not even Merlin, not even Mason - can make her feel as calm and relaxed as Dillon can.]
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I'm gonna go...look for the others that got lost, we're probably close. Figure out what we need to do to get back.
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Y'all will get brought back up soon though, right? I thought that was how ports always worked.
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[The Mirror barge's arena.]
Something was wrong then, and something's wrong now. Whatever's happening, I'm pretty sure we can't rely on what it's been like before.
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Part of him - the raw, sparking agitated power that is still remembering how to be human - wants to dismiss it out of hand for precisely how ridiculous it is. But he's also a very lonely kid, and it catches him there, under the ribs.]
I, uh.
Thanks.
[Heavily, more than he wants it to be, throat caught just a little, glancing away. He grabs a breath and looks at her again.]
I'll manage.
[He always does. But - it's nice, a little worry.]
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Is that... okay? Do you mind me worrying about you?
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It's alright. I'm just. Not used to it, I guess.
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[#tuckylogic]
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[Shuffleshuffleteenagewhatever.]
You be careful.
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Find your way back up here soon. You been gone a lot; I keep having to miss you.
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[Teasing, just a little. That's cool, right?]
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See you soon.