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[mrwoods]

He sighs.

Push. Pull. Push. Pull.

His eyes are closed, and he's sitting alone in one of the Propulsor cabins.

Push. Pull. Push. Pull.

His bare skin is touching the cold stone. He likes that, and it helps with the propulsion, as if he was actually part of the ship.

Push. Pull. Push. Pull.

He can feel the whole ship. Not quite like a Navigator can, they know stuff in relation to other stuff, they can perceive everything, trace destinations. Even now, he can feel the Nav, nudging all the Propulsors in the same directions, telling where they should go.

Push. Pull. Push. Pull.

There's feedback, of course. The Nav tells them, we must go there. They reply, that's not a good place to go. Gravitational field. Someone - this ship has a metamage, even if there was no time mage that was still impressive - says that there's a sea of instability over there, we should not go that way.

Push. Pull.

Sigh.

This is all, of course, happening in his head. Not a sound can be heard from his cabin, other than his breathing and the occasional sigh.

It's not that he dislikes propulsion. It's interesting, it doesn't exactly let him get completely bored. Or not always, but this ship has several Propulsors, so he only really needs to pay a little bit of attention.

I'm checking out, he thinks, and he feels the nonverbal nudge saying basically 'Alright.'

And a bit of a wave of indifference.

It's not that he's completely irrelevant either, but there's enough of them that he can check out pretty much whenever he likes.

He's been sighing a lot, hasn't he.

He puts his clothes back on, then touches the door so it'll let him out. He leaves and-

"Oh, hi. You're the new guy, right?"

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[mswoods]

Okay.

[tailedmonstrosity]

Okay?

[mswoods]

She shrugs. I don't know, I'm not feeling myself right now. Because of. Um. So. I can understand not wanting to be upset. I can understand it very well. But I don't know if I would have understood it- before. Or. If I would have agreed. Because. You're fine. And- not being allowed to talk about something because it's upsetting sounds. Bad.

[tailedmonstrosity]

I'm not feeling myself either. And I am not sure if I can judge correctly. But... What should Lord have done?

[mswoods]

Well... I don't know, honestly. The very thought of doing anything is terrifying and if I were in his place I'd curl up into a ball and never get up and- She shivers.

[tailedmonstrosity]

Isra changes how he holds her hand, more gently, sorry.

[mswoods]

She shivers again. It's not your-

She suddenly flinches away from Isra again, but this time turns away and does curl into a ball, her back to him.

She doesn't break the Link, though.

[tailedmonstrosity]

I'm sorry... What did I do wrong?

[mswoods]

She shakes her head, and whimpers again. Not you.

[tailedmonstrosity]

Isra curls into a ball himself, but keeping his eyes on Sadde.

[mswoods]

What if the Federation gets these Children's powers?

Shiver.

[tailedmonstrosity]

That can't happen.

[mswoods]

Shiver.

No, it can't.

[tailedmonstrosity]

Isra shivers too.

It should be stopped.

[mswoods]

She looks over her shoulder at Isra again. She's been crying. What do we do about it?

[tailedmonstrosity]

Isra almost gets up, but then remembers the restraints. He can't wipe away the tears.

I am not sure. He has a pretty horrible idea.

[mswoods]

Sadde's vision is too blurry to see any visual cues to his horrible idea. Maybe we could talk to the Captain about it.

[tailedmonstrosity]

At least she isn't Federation.

Isra opens the curtain and tries locating the Captain from where her voice came earlier.

[peterxy]

She's not really visible from there, and is probably behind one of the many white sheets separating the various beds.

[tailedmonstrosity]

Can't see her. Is it unwise to just call out her name?

[mswoods]

I dunno, but we probably shouldn't talk about it out loud. Hm. Can you ping her? And if you can't maybe you can call out and ask her to ping you?

[tailedmonstrosity]

I will ping her, but... If I call her name it wouldn't be that suspicious to ask for a private conversation. Isra does not mention why. He pings the Captain.

[peterxy]

The Captain ignores the ping.

[tailedmonstrosity]

She is ignoring it.

[mswoods]

Hmm.

"Captain?" she calls, and then clears her throat and tries again. "Captain? C-can you ping Isra?" She's not sure whether the Captain would recognise that she's 'pretty boy.'