If you don't sleep, it's only a different kind of nightmare that comes for you.
[He trusted everything, back there; and maybe Rhade is right, maybe eventually that place would have used his easy trust to lead him into some kind of fatal trap, but it had been so, so comforting while it lasted. Like he had finally done something right, that he had protected people he's beginning to care about.
But he hadn't, he can't; the Barge, the Admiral, whatever is in charge, it does what it wants. At least it's familiar, even if it's not comforting.
Ben taps his fingertips idly on the edge of the pool table, considers pushing one of the balls instead, but makes no move to disrupt whatever game she is, in fact, playing. Instead he glances up to consider her last statement.]
[ Spam ]
[He trusted everything, back there; and maybe Rhade is right, maybe eventually that place would have used his easy trust to lead him into some kind of fatal trap, but it had been so, so comforting while it lasted. Like he had finally done something right, that he had protected people he's beginning to care about.
But he hadn't, he can't; the Barge, the Admiral, whatever is in charge, it does what it wants. At least it's familiar, even if it's not comforting.
Ben taps his fingertips idly on the edge of the pool table, considers pushing one of the balls instead, but makes no move to disrupt whatever game she is, in fact, playing. Instead he glances up to consider her last statement.]
Were you harmed?