008 || Voice

[chlorophylliac]

[Backdated to yesterday]

She watched her forest slaughtered and called it compromise. Hundreds of years ago she made a truce with a man who had nothing to offer her, out of pity, and he repaid her with the slow inevitable exploitation of her family.  Of everything that she was.  And in exchange for petty, fleeting pleasures, she accepted it. 

I am not her. I will never be her. And I do not apologize.

[Oh wait, there were some recent events, weren't there?]

For anything.

[Private to Gaheris and Hendricks but strangely enough not Loki or Erik]

Put it from your mind. It will not happen again.

[Friends Filter]

I'm in Zero for the next seven days.

I need someone to look in on my

[OOC: Maybe 'friends' is too strong a word in some cases but this filter currently comprises Erik, Loki, Barbara, Prefect, Arkady and....Charles, why not, they had a reasonably civil talk about science once.]

Comments

[voice]

[unweeping_willow]

[Willow... flinches back a little at that first announcement. And whispers:]

Oh.

[voice]

[chlorophylliac]

I'm sorry, have I given the mistaken impression that I'm the least bit interested in your wounded feelings? Are you disappointed that I'm not some pathetic, selfish creature who denied the very purpose of her creation to make sure her appetites were satisfied? My heart bleeds for you.

[voice]

[unweeping_willow]

...She wasn't pathetic. [Her voice is low, but determined; to get that out at least.] She was honest. With everyone.

Private

[buywithme]

I feel that way about a lot of breaches. I'm sorry you had to... experience her loss, even while you were taken away from your own.

[And oh god he doesn't want to go down to level zero right now but...]

Could I bring you anything?

Private

[chlorophylliac]

Grayson has taken upon himself to see that I'm comfortable.

Private

[buywithme]

That's very considerate of him. Is there anything additional that you'd like?

[...Because there's comfortable as in... having your basic needs met, and then there's comfortable as in, being brought some books and a flask of tea. He's offering the latter kind of comfort.]

[Spam]

[batmanschmatman]

[Hey Ivy, it's your self appointed temporary warden. Carrying a battery operated plant light.

Better than nothing, right?]

Hi.

[Spam]

[chlorophylliac]

[She's resting on one of the beds, curled up a little - conserving energy - but when she hears his voice she uncoils and goes to the bars.

...and that is, well, it might stop her clothes drying up and shedding off, if nothing else.]

The Admiral's finest, I assume?

[Spam]

[batmanschmatman]

Yeah. Sorry it's not bigger. [But he's switching it on and passing it in through the bars.]

Private

[cujothebigreddog]

[This is a man and not a boy. He doesn't look ashamed or disappointed: just nods briskly.]

Acknowledged.

[chlorophylliac]

[No response, but the classiness is....well, not appreciated exactly, but when the revolution comes you will not be the first against the wall.]

[an_abomination]

Compromising is not the word I would use for her.

[chlorophylliac]

I would have killed you.

[Private]

[wecanavenge]

Why?

[Private]

[chlorophylliac]

I wounded Edward Blake's pride [also some other things] and he chose to end his own life as a result.

[Private]

[truth_is_cold]

I didn't think it would.

Are you alright? [He knows what she did, but as it turns out Gaheris has a hate on for rapists- enough to help destroy a civilization that was sympathetic to a species of them. So he doesn't care all that much what she did to Eddie. However having to live with memories of having slept with people? That's bothersome.] I just want to make sure.

[Private]

[chlorophylliac]

Perfectly fine.

[Better than ever, really.]

[private]

[can_has_vodka]

OOooo, that's no good, you locked up down there. Should I even ask?

I'll be about if you need anything.

[private]

[chlorophylliac]

Edward Blake and I spent some time together. It didn't go well for him.

[Private]

[wedonot]

Do you need anything?

[Private]

[chlorophylliac]

No.

[peektuttut]

The way I remember it, she was moved by his determination to protect his own. She understood that. ['Why can't you' is what he absolutely is not saying.]

[chlorophylliac]

What I understand is that she sacrificed her family out of pity for a man too weak to protect his own. She lost everything and gained nothing. If that's 'compromise' I want no part of it.

Filter

[ladyofgotham]

What did you do? [Then, after a moment, quietly.] What do you need?

Filter

[chlorophylliac]

[Plainly:] I tortured Edward Blake for reasons I feel are obvious. When permitted the opportunity, he took his own life.

...

I don't need anything. Grayson seems to have appointed himself my keeper while my Warden is indisposed.