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[heresyandlace]

Who: Tekhetsio
Broadcast: Network | Open
Action: SS Pathstone
When: November 15

[he doesn't turn the video feed on because he looks like shit. he can't even keep his mask properly in place, so the rest of the Fleet does not need to see him looking so inhuman and a little cadaverous. the fact that he can't even hide from his crew is bad enough.]

...This is getting absurd.

[his voice is sharp and quite stressed. he has completely run out of patience.]

Has no one come up with an answer for this thing yet? Honestly? ...Isn't anyone the least bit concerned with how... ugh...

[and his voice then trails off as he backs a step away from the receiver.

the entire fleet is then treated to the distinct sound of sickened retching... followed by a few clatters... and something small, wet, and heavy hitting the floor.

anyone aboard the SS Pathstone and happening by the network station that Tek is using will have it a little worse, however. he has puked up a little bit of a mess--mostly consisting of oily black liquid, a couple of half-digested coins... and a shiny red gem.

oops.]

Comments

[aberrant_type]

You have a biology just like the rest of us! It can be studied and learned about. You were asking for help in the first place, so don't write it off so quickly.

[heresyandlace]

My biology is absolutely nothing like the rest of you.

And I don't exactly feel up to being experimented on, strange as that might sound.

[aberrant_type]

I promise I'll be gentle with you. How about a blood sample?

[heresyandlace]

...You seem entirely too excited about it.

[aberrant_type]

You won't even feel it! I'm very good, I promise. ♥

[heresyandlace]

[yeah not sounding anymore reassured about this...]

...I don't think you're understanding what my concern is, here.

[aberrant_type]

Do go on, then!

[heresyandlace]

I don't trust you at all and have absolutely no faith that you know what you're dealing with.

[voice so flat. just telling it like it is.]

It has nothing to do with whether or not you're going to 'be gentle.'

[aberrant_type]

[She doesn't sound hurt or really nonplussed by that either, anyway. No surprise there.]

I assure you I can keep confidentiality if that's what you're worried about - and at this stage I wouldn't suggest sticking anything in you for keeps. Of course, we hardly know each other, so I can't blame you for not trusting me, but I do wonder exactly what you're worried about me doing.

[heresyandlace]

[before he addresses the rest of that, there's one thing he needs to go back and... have clarified.]

..."Sticking anything in me for keeps?"

[aberrant_type]

Yes, I absolutely won't be sticking anything into you. Except a needle in the arm, or wherever vein is best for you. Briefly.

[heresyandlace]

...What else would you be sticking in me??

[especially that 'for keeps' part. he's a little alarmed that he can't imagine what else she could possibly mean.

human science and medicine is still more of a mystery to him than he realizes...]

1/2

[aberrant_type]

Spears? But you're not a titan and that was never for keeps, so...

[aberrant_type]

Nothing. ♥

[heresyandlace]

[ugggggh he really just wants to hang up and go lay back down.

...but he's getting kind of desperate.

give him a minute to reconsider his life choices.]



...I'm not leaving my ship.

[aberrant_type]

I can come over right now!!

[heresyandlace]

[his voice gets pretty sharp for a second.

even considering allowing her to do this is like pulling out his own fingernails.]

At least pretend to not be so excited about this, alright?

[aberrant_type]

[Okay, she can do that much. She takes a moment and clears her throat. When she speaks again she sounds kind and much more mellow.

Finally a chance to touch this nonhuman. ♥]

All right, all right.

Call me in anytime.

[heresyandlace]

[let's say there is a transfer of communicator numbers... because he will totally buckle and take her up on her offer only a little later, with the bare minimum of his pride preserved.

just a short text message buzzing in on her communicator with his name and the coordinates of which waystation his ship is parked at.]

[aberrant_type]

[Fuck yessssss. She flashes back a brief message to confirm, and then drags the whole ship on over that way. Ah, it's good to be captain and also to have nothing better to do. Would Tek be happy to know he's brightened her day so much?

Probably not. And she feels kind of crappy herself, but this is motivational! So it's a fairly short while later that she's moseying on over to his ship and letting herself on there. She got a kit together on the off chance that he'd say yes, so there's not even much of a wait after her ship comes in. She'll buzz to be let on.]

[heresyandlace]

[remembering the debacle that letting Robin onto the ship had turned out to be, Tek has preemptively dragged himself out of bed and made himself comfortable near the hatch.

he almost falls asleep there, but at least the buzzer will only blare once, instead of over and over until someone on this ship deigns to open it.

he hits the control to open the hatch and just waits. slumped where he's sitting, peeking up from where his folded arms had been a pillow just enough to eye her as she enters.]

[aberrant_type]

[She looks presentable and normal enough, and like she's settled in as a crewman, when she steps on board. Dressed in white coveralls and a tank top with bare arms. What she figured she'd need is neatly collected in a case; she'll scare up Emblica and ask to borrow some stuff if necessary, but doubts she'll have to.

Anyway, he's easy to spot. She comes nearer, but stops a respectable distance away and drops to a crouch.]

Where would you like to do this?

[heresyandlace]

[just watching her with one lazy, unblinking eye until she's settled. then he rouses enough to sit up, dragging himself into a slightly more presentable state. he's in his usual set of fine clothes from home, but they're definitely on the rumpled and unloved side now. it's terrible. at least he's managing to keep up his mask, but... it's a tenuous hold.]

Do we need to go somewhere else? The other rooms are somewhat occupied.

[there's a demon in his bed and the lab is full of potatoes.]

[aberrant_type]

Not at all, but I wondered if you'd be more comfortable somewhere else. [A laughable idea, she can imagine he's not comfortable at all, but ah. Little things. She shuffles closer anyway, and flips open her case. First thing that happens are gloves, snapped quickly over her wrists. Risking contact between his body fluids and her skin doesn't seem like a good idea. Titan blood is very hot; she has no idea what his will be like.

She highballed and came with four vials, visible nestled in padding.]

[heresyandlace]

[yeah he's eyeing those vials, and nods to them while she's setting up]

You throw those out the minute that you're done with your tests, understand?

And no one else gets to play with it or sample it in the meantime.