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[Myitt]

Myitt takes a few steps forward, clenching her fists. 

"You know as well as I do that the death of a sibling I care about, even one that might be flawed, would still cause me pain," Myitt snarls.  "You have no idea.  There are worse things than grief.  Far more painful things.  Just don't...don't listen to that thing."  She points an accusatory finger at Mar.

[Terenia]

Terenia looks mildly surprised.

"So you came to prevent me from listening to him?" Terenia nods. She doesn't know a lot about Myitt and Mar's history, but she knows that it is complicated and that Myitt harbors a rather noticeable dislike for him. Of course she would find him a threat.

"You don't have to worry, Myitt," Terenia says. "I was just leaving. I'm sorry to have caused you so many troubles. You won't be hearing from me again." The words are sincere, but they are delivered with such an even tone that they may have been read from a script.

[KitsuneMarie]

Tora stops short as someone exits the Bar; from their awkward stride, it becomes clear that something was partially blocking the doorway. For the first time, she notices the individuals crouched by the Bar's entrance; it looks as if someone else has been wounded. Let's hope there's not another death already, she sighs, taking a few steps closer over the gravel ground, bare feet still arched to avoid the jagged rocks.

[Myitt]

"Hmm, well, I for one am sorry to see you go back to a creature almost as vile as this one here," Myitt says, nodding at Mar, "who would have you believe that he's sincere in his efforts to help you." 

[Terenia]

"Funny," Terenia says, "you are so opposed to my listening to him, but both of you are essentially telling me the same thing."

She purses her lips, not entirely sure that she wants to entertain the conversation any longer than it has already gone on. "What does it matter to you if I return to Visser Three? Is that not a suitable punishment for me? What else can I do, if not go back? There is nowhere else for me. I had hoped...but that's behind me now."

[Myitt]

"The difference, Terenia, is that he is giving you the same advice out of his twisted hope for personal gain," Myitt says dismissively.  "I at least don't have anything to gain from telling you not to destroy yourself, other than losing a person my brother cares for and...and protecting you from the things that are worse than death."  She pauses, blinking.  "I know, I know, it sounds ridiculous.  But please, you have to believe me.  He is more powerful than he appears."

[Terenia]

"Maybe," Terenia relents, giving Mar a furtive glance, "but again, why does it matter? If I go back to Visser Three and he kills me, or if I stay here and rot at a barstool, what does it matter? There's no difference. The only reason you are here is because you feel obligated. Maybe you feel guilty, or maybe you're just here because of Corliss." Terenia shrugs, staring out over the lake.

"You didn't cause her death, Myitt," Terenia says, "You may have helped bring her here, but you were one of her victims. She tried to kill you, not the other way around. You don't have to try and make yourself feel better by talking to me."

[Myitt]

"I am not making myself feel better," says Myitt, maybe a bit too defensively.  She kicks at a rock with her boot, stuffing her hands into her jacket pockets.  "I'm just trying to help you.  If you can't accept that, then go ahead and listen to Mar.  Give whatever life you have left away." 

She shrugs and starts to walk back toward the forest.

[Terenia]

A frown etches itself in Terenia's face as Myitt turns her back on their small group. Try as she might she just cannot understand why the Yeerk would involve herself. Terenia's gaze snaps down to the fresh grave, then back up.

"Why!?" she calls at Myitt's receeding form, "Why are you trying to help me?"

[Myitt]

Myitt pauses mid-step and turns to face Terenia.

"Because I can't stand to see anyone else go through what he's done to me," she yells, glaring accusatorily at Terenia, out of breath.  "Okay?  Now go ahead and screw your own life up, what do I care?"  She turns and starts to stalk off again.

[Hunter]

As the Doctor shaved his side and stitched him up, Hunter felt the painkillers finally start to kick in.  As she stitched Hunter felt like he was floating on a cloud, miles above the bar. Or is that the blood loss? he though to himself

[Terenia]

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Terenia is actually stunned into silence for a moment, and she finds herself wondering what could have possibly gone on between Myitt and Mar to elicit such a strong reaction. She gives Mar a wary look before taking a few steps in Myitt's direction.

"No," she murmurs to herself, stopping short. Getting involved in the problems of others was exactly what caused this whole mess in the first place. If Myitt and Mar had a score to settle it was no business of her own. Myitt's happiness even less so. And yet...she bites her lip, looking down at her sister's grave, her thoughts going to the journey before her. She is certainly not relishing the thought of a long trip with only her own thoughts and Efaen's screams to accompany her. And for what? A cold ship and it's cold slave driving master, who would only possibly bother to keep her alive?

"Thank you for the advice," Terenia says dryly to Mar before setting off after Myitt. She isn't entirely sure why she is bothering, except that she is mildly worried about the prospect of spending a prolonged period of time alone. And maybe she is just a little intrigued.

[Myitt]

Myitt pushes through the trees for what feels like the hundredth time in the last hour, cursing to herself and not caring who hears her.

"Unbelievable," she mutters bitterly.  "I can't believe he'd...and she's in such a vulnerable state...but she's a psychopath."  She argues with herself like this, navigating the forest and hating her inability to see clearly in the gloom, hating how utterly stupid this weak child could be.

Stupid?  Well, what warning did I have? she rationalizes.  Yes, of course.  He gives no warning to the secular skeptic.

<I think I'm tired,> Tara says wearily.  <You only do this when I'm tired.>

"It's not just that," she hisses aloud.  "The girl is a fool, blinded by rage and grief, looking for a way out.  Just a coincidence I followed her.  Just...a coincidence.

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Corliss sighs, turning back to the Skimmer's cabin and sealing the door shut.  He sits down at the main navigational controls, tapping idly at the viewscreens but not really seeing them.

Half a sob catches in his throat, but he swallows it down.  Why should he grieve over someone he barely knew?  And yet...

[Terenia]

"You think so highly of me," Terenia says, overhearing the last part of her little speech. She approaches Myitt, pausing a safe distance away in case the Yeerk got it into her mind to attack. "I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I am not, as you say, 'blinded by rage and grief'." She certainly doesn't sound blinded by anything. If anything the only emotion present in her tone is a mild curiosity.


"What exactly," Terenia asks, "did you expect to happen back there?"

[Myitt]

Myitt freezes again, glancing back at Terenia. 

"I don't know," she replies, pushing back a branch.  "Something bad.  Something...believe me, I know what it feels like to be a puppet.  To be someone's slave.  You must know the feeling by proxy, as well.  Whatever it is he did to me....it's worse.  It's much worse."  She groans in frustration.  "Oh, I don't know.  It's like something is stopping me from remembering.  All I know, is...you don't deserve it."  She swings past the branch and crunches on through the dead leaves.