flask: (trouble is a friend but trouble is a foe)
there is no comma, it's just nott the brave ([personal profile] flask) wrote in [community profile] elnyan 2018-07-19 07:57 pm (UTC)

It might not be a good one! This is basically a hostage situation.

[Still, she really doesn't want to test it, after he's ventured the possibility. But she agrees with him. Her being here is better than her not being here. And it means more of them might be around.

She follows him, feeling the urge to stay close after being thoroughly spooked by seeing someone she recognizes asleep in a weird tube, and then nearly gets stepped on, letting out a small yelp. But then she realizes why he doubled back, peering into the same pods that hold Jester and Fjord.

She knits her brow, ignoring Molly's jokes about Jester's crush.
]

Molly, I don't like this...

[She feels the uneasiness pulling at her, right in the pit of her stomach.

They haven't even found Caleb yet, and that's somehow worse. She doesn't want to see him trapped and helpless like Beau, Jester, and Fjord, but she wants to know he's still there. That there's still a possibility that he'll wake up again someday.
]

What if one of these pod people wake up while we're here? Not one of us, but what if a stranger... I don't know, freaks out and kills us out of shock?

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