END GAME: THE COUNTDOWN STARTS

[sailmods]

[the prisoners wake up on cold, hard floors.

the lights are bright, glaring, a sterile cell with sterile bars facing a sterile hall. the prisoners with you, across from you, and no one else. no rocking of a ship in waves, nothing. just the prisoner and their prison.

time passes, one assumes. the rhythmic click of Friday’s heels down the hall. it’s almost like the ticking of a clock.]

Comments

[theweakhavepurpose]

Yeah I saw the Lieutenant afterwards. She really did not get it. At all. I tried to explain what people were mad about but she never listened - I don't even think we were speaking the same language but I tried man. I'm just probably not the best person to rationally explain much of anything.

[He shrugs, a little too late now.]

Do you think we can? Does she even exist without the Captain's power? She's like an animated doll kinda.

[teethoftherisk]

Yes, I ran into the same problem when I talked to her before our fight. She didn't believe a thing I said to her. I thought we had a mutual respect for each other. We did not.

I believe that if we could be perfectly copied and we can exist outside of the Captain's realm, then there is a way to make it so Friday can live outside of the realm too. And there are some passengers here who are the same as animated dolls, like April or Bastion. We just need to find what it is that she needs, and I will do whatever I can to help her.

[theweakhavepurpose]

You know what she told me once? That in their world there's no such thing as 'gifts'. No one ever does anything nice for someone else without the expectation it'll be returned. Everything had to have a contract. So I can kinda see why she'd think that whoever showed up she could negotiate with.

I came from a world that got demolished with a nuclear religious apocalypse and it still sounded better than where she was from.

Man I hope so. But we gotta convince the Captain.

[teethoftherisk]

[The flattened ears make it clear exactly what Siffleur thinks hearing this. A world without gifts, and she had claimed he was jealous of her. What was there to envy about something even shittier than the worlds he and Pratt had come from?]

She was a fucking idiot. I am just glad that the person she made a deal with is also a fucking idiot, and so we have a chance to escape. ... a world without gifts, how stupid. Even at the worst moments of my life, there have been gifts and kindness from others.

If we rescue the Captain, he will owe me and her this favour. No more being lazy. No more sticking his head in the sand.

[theweakhavepurpose]

I do kinda wonder if her whole world really is like her, or if she was just like that. It's weird being a representative of your entire reality ya know?

True true. Well I think we got a shot, you got outta there, others will too. And then we just gotta get to the Captain who's probably in solitary. Or no wait, this is all dramatic so probably shackled up in an actual dungeon With an oubliette and everything.

[teethoftherisk]

This is true. I hope for her world's sake that she was simply like that, and there are plenty of human beings there who know how to be kind for kindness sake.

[Siffleur snorts but Pratt's probably right. Nothing ever gets done by half-measures here.] With actual chains on his cuffs, no doubt. Or hanging from the ceiling by them.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Probably. Torches on the walls, the whole thing.

Anyway. What are you gonna do now that you're out? What's at the end of the hallway? I can't see very far.