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[impure_tale]

So that is what the comas are like. My apologies if anyone has worried about a simple old man such as I, drifting off to sleep and not waking, but if it comforts you to know: I enjoyed my rest.

[Private to Riddick]

I know that you have little need of anyone to look after you, but it would be prudent for me to ask how you are faring and what you have missed in my absence.

Comments

[Useless]

[umgekehrt]

'Simple' as if you expect us to believe it. Glad to see you're on your feet. [Quiet nonsmile goes here.]

[Private]

[with_my_teacup]

I want back in the CES. Got in some horseplay with Arthas. Otherwise, I've been your good trustee.

[He smiles that little smile that promises good behavior only lasts until he sees a chance to hit the door.]

[ Video ]

[surfaceshine]

Welcome back. I don't know you, but comas suck for the people who do, so.

[doctor_j_crane]

Did you find your coma enjoyable?

[strangehistorian]

Was this your first?

[Useless]

[impure_tale]

I cannot force you people to see truth. I have accepted this.

[Private]

[impure_tale]

Why, Monsieur Riddick.

I always had a hunch regarding Arthas' proclivities, but I never thought you the type.

[ Video ]

[impure_tale]

[There's a brief look of confusion, but he quickly remembers]

Ah, I shall never tire of this place, where I can be so easily unremembered. I forget that our encounters have always been few in the past, and you haven't the benefit of remembering or forgetting at all.

Merci, Monsieur Winchester.

[impure_tale]

A traveling man can always use a good rest, Doctor Crane.

[impure_tale]

I believe so.

Re: [Private]

[with_my_teacup]

What can I say? We've got one of those raw, physical things going on. [He leans in a bit, the bandages on his shoulder and upper arm coming slightly visible with the shift in angle.] It's just something intimate.

[Private]

[impure_tale]

[A delighted chuckle. He likes it when you banter, Riddick :3 But then he notices the bandages]

I see his libertinage goes well beyond convention. Now you will have to give me the details.

[Useless]

[umgekehrt]

Cretins all of us, to the last body.

[What is dangerously close to a fond smile, and in public no less-- but he wrangles it.]

[Private]

[with_my_teacup]

[Riddick attaches what lead-up there was, from the network. He's not going to play the victim to get another inmate in trouble, wouldn't even if he had better deniability.]

He brought some toys, I had some of my own. [He shrugs his other shoulder.]

He has some love taps himself. [He's kind of proud of the burns. Not often he gets that ... elaborate with his ambushes.]

[Private]

[impure_tale]

Am I meant to glean from this that you did not instigate what followed?

[Private]

[with_my_teacup]

Fuck you talking about? I instigated, I invited, I met him with open arms. [A rolling laugh.]

Arthas and me, we have fun.

[Useless]

[impure_tale]

Have you been walking Renate?

[Private]

[impure_tale]

He did not strike me as especially amused, Richard.

[Useless]

[umgekehrt]

Yes. Tried to keep her contented, for all I know of dogs, but she seemed worried that you wouldn't wake. But fed, watered, and exercised.

[Not that anyone else in this equation might have been worried. No. Look, the dog.]

[Useless]

[impure_tale]

I'm certain you were both a welcome consolation for one another.

[Private]

[with_my_teacup]

It's Arthas. He gets pissy and violent, I don't back down, we roughhouse a little.

Pretty sure he enjoys it.

[Private]

[impure_tale]

And you will resist your baser urges at least until I have surmised as much myself.

Re: [Private]

[with_my_teacup]

[He looks... Almost irritated. ]

Figured the perk of him being undead was I wouldn't get shit for playing rough with him.

[Private]

[impure_tale]

I would like to know what logic you used to come to this conclusion as well as the membrane of non-reality from which it emerged.

[Private]

[with_my_teacup]

He threatens me, I tell him to come get some, he does. I ain't even figured out how to kill him yet and I ain't the one seeking him out.

If I was intimidating other inmates here into a fight, that I could see you getting pissed of about. But if I extend an invitation and he shows up at my door... Really at that point I'm just being a good host. Not the first time we've crossed, wasn't expecting it to be the last till you got all straight laced all of a sudden.

Seemed like a fair arrangement to me.

[doctor_j_crane]

Even at the cost of living your life?

[Private]

[impure_tale]

You intended violence. That is what troubles me.

[impure_tale]

It was hardly permanent, cherub.

[Private]

[with_my_teacup]

I don't enjoy going up against things I can't kill. But I'm gonna get my jabs in where I can. And unlike everyone else who told him he was being an asshole, I'm the one who'll back it up with action. Even if I take a few scratches. That's why he comes my way.

[strangehistorian]

How long have you been aboard?

[doctor_j_crane]

Cherub? Really?

[impure_tale]

Do you disagree?

[doctor_j_crane]

It's not a term I'd use to describe myself.

[ Video ]

[surfaceshine]

What? [He's only confused in his own turn for a moment, then he makes an impatient noise and half-rolls his eyes, though it's directed at himself. Crap, another one. He thought he'd found them all by now. ]

Right. Um. Well, at least I haven't pissed you off yet, then.

[ Video ]

[impure_tale]

I am not an easy man to anger.

[ Video ]

[surfaceshine]

Believe me, if anyone could, it'd probably be me.