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epidemiology2016-10-31 12:00 pm
secondnature) wrote in epidemiology2016-10-31 12:00 pm
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CHARACTERS: Rey and Keith
DATE: The evening after they return from Boneyard Junction.
WARNINGS: N/A, but will update if something comes up.
SUMMARY: Keith found a holodisc and finally looks at it, and he pieces it together with the end of Rey's fight with the Reverend. AKA I really want to make an Animorphs joke about yeerks and slugs so here it is, here's the reference.
By time Keith had found the holodisc, it had been too late to really look at it. Believing that it might just be a lot of ALASTAIR nonsense, he hadn't set aside the time to raise it in front of his magitek to look at it. And then the fight broke out, and then Rey killed that guy, and then—and then it was all a mess, all a bunch of confusion. Keith hadn't seen the slug slither out of the guy's head, but he had seen Rey bend down to pick something up. It wasn't the time or the place to cross the distance to check on her. Other Deemers were either still fighting or escaping, and Keith was taking the whole thing hard.
By time they get back, it was clear that something was wrong. The saloon was empty of most of its employees and things just looked bad. In a fit of brooding, Keith wandered off to finally look at the holodisc alone, and the information he found was confusing—at first. At first. And then he slowed himself down and tried to think about it like he thought about the whole deal with the messages and the lure of the blue lion and everything else. Once he did that, it felt as if it was abruptly clear to him exactly what was going on. It wasn't like he had a perfect solution, but a number of questions find their answers. Or ... it felt like there was a path to them. That was more accurate.
Seeking out Rey took a little more work, but once he found her, he raised a hand and then motioned for her to come to him. They have to talk. Some part of his stomach twisted at the memory of her filling the Reverend with bullets, and he realized that she might not take this information well. What if she killed an innocent man? What if that man had been taken over against his will? What if?
DATE: The evening after they return from Boneyard Junction.
WARNINGS: N/A, but will update if something comes up.
SUMMARY: Keith found a holodisc and finally looks at it, and he pieces it together with the end of Rey's fight with the Reverend. AKA I really want to make an Animorphs joke about yeerks and slugs so here it is, here's the reference.
By time Keith had found the holodisc, it had been too late to really look at it. Believing that it might just be a lot of ALASTAIR nonsense, he hadn't set aside the time to raise it in front of his magitek to look at it. And then the fight broke out, and then Rey killed that guy, and then—and then it was all a mess, all a bunch of confusion. Keith hadn't seen the slug slither out of the guy's head, but he had seen Rey bend down to pick something up. It wasn't the time or the place to cross the distance to check on her. Other Deemers were either still fighting or escaping, and Keith was taking the whole thing hard.
By time they get back, it was clear that something was wrong. The saloon was empty of most of its employees and things just looked bad. In a fit of brooding, Keith wandered off to finally look at the holodisc alone, and the information he found was confusing—at first. At first. And then he slowed himself down and tried to think about it like he thought about the whole deal with the messages and the lure of the blue lion and everything else. Once he did that, it felt as if it was abruptly clear to him exactly what was going on. It wasn't like he had a perfect solution, but a number of questions find their answers. Or ... it felt like there was a path to them. That was more accurate.
Seeking out Rey took a little more work, but once he found her, he raised a hand and then motioned for her to come to him. They have to talk. Some part of his stomach twisted at the memory of her filling the Reverend with bullets, and he realized that she might not take this information well. What if she killed an innocent man? What if that man had been taken over against his will? What if?