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versusnurture) wrote2014-08-02 09:24 pm
versusnurture) wrote2014-08-02 09:24 pm
nineteen ♢ video
[When the feed comes on, the first thing there is is a wall and half of a desk. Those people on board who've been inside will know it as Abigail's room. There's a small blood smear on the edge of the desk, another dark spot on the corner of the lens.]
[She doesn't turn it towards herself, but the camera does move towards the desk, is set down at the edge of it. Two hands appear in the frame, blood-caked, palm-up. There's blood under her nails, too, drier blood that's oxidized to a deep, almost black color.]
[She doesn't say anything. But after a moment, there's a strangled noise, and she knocks the camera off the desk. The briefest flash of dark hair and a pale face; then it hits the floor and shuts off.]
[She doesn't turn it towards herself, but the camera does move towards the desk, is set down at the edge of it. Two hands appear in the frame, blood-caked, palm-up. There's blood under her nails, too, drier blood that's oxidized to a deep, almost black color.]
[She doesn't say anything. But after a moment, there's a strangled noise, and she knocks the camera off the desk. The briefest flash of dark hair and a pale face; then it hits the floor and shuts off.]
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[ He doesn't plan on asking what happened, why is Ben injured. He doesn't want to step into something that is probably private, personal. ]
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No.
God, no.
I'm a - lab technician. Lately, more of a hunter and tracker.
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I used to be a hunter.
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Used to be?
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[Which in this case means many things. She doesn't have - hasn't had - the weapons she was used to for quite a while, the literal ones. She doesn't feel sharp anymore, either; dulled by darkness and too much quiet. She's been tamed, no longer a predator. Barely remembers what it was like to be one.]
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The thing about humans is - we can choose why. We can hunt to kill, or we can hunt to study. To discover.
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To use information as a weapon. Later. [Sort of a question, sort of an assumption.]
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Or beautiful.
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Hunt to eat. You're supposed to hunt to eat.
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Do you have someone to - help you? With your hands.
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[Which . . . is neither a yes nor a no.]
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[Because she fucking stabbed him.]
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Sorry to hear that.
[ WHAT DO YOU SAY IN THESE CIRCUMSTANCES. ]
My name is Stephen.
When I track creatures, it's ordinarily so they can be tranquilized and sent back where they came from.
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['It' in this case being everything, including life.]
Did you ever track people? [Are you going to tranquilize me and send me back? It's a paranoid thought, but she doesn't immediately dismiss it.]
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