pain_train: (i wish i could remember)
pain_train ([personal profile] pain_train) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet 2015-07-02 06:15 am (UTC)

A
[Wrath has come to help with the purging. If there are any bugs that need to be dispatched, she'll do that as needed, though she's really not supposed to be fighting. This isn't fun; this is grim work. She pushes herself a little harder than she should, but she's always been one to get focused on work.

When all is done, she gets the memorial display she put together set up. The Vision cobbled together some shitty holoprojectors for her, so that's what she's working with. This isn't really her medium, but she can do something that's visually pleasing and expresses the tragedy of the situation. She'd been serious; remembering is important.

The holodisplay is relatively simple, stating with what little they do know about the bugs, the numbers of dead, the description of what happened to them. The written description ends simply with, This must never be forgotten. With the words, there's a simple holographic candle flame, stylized to look like it has been painted, but ever glowing. Behind it there's a subtle starscape, a nearby star with colors reminiscent of a sunset.]


B
[Afterward, Wrath is back on the Windrose, and she's a little quieter than normal. Mostly she's just gone somewhere she can look out at the stars and try to find a way to sit that eases the ache in her back.

She knows she's been to a lot of memorial ceremonies. She can't remember a lot of them, can't remember what she should say or do. It's not like she knew the bugs, but she knows that kind of horror. But she also knows it's very possible for a people to survive past it. She hopes that's what's happened.

She wishes she could draw. That's another thing to ask the engineers for help with. But later. Not today.]

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