w5 curfew: dog park

[applebough]

Sometimes, you just have a ruff day or twenty.

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[baebladie]

[ Blade is poked in the head with the practice sword, and he just tenses up on instinct (basically that), though it helps that position is non-threatening...

Plus...dogs are on top of him too. He twitches a bit and there's an unsettling smirk on his face soon enough, though. ]

I can't remember the last time I lived a day, even here, pain-free.

...It might be too much to expect me to be normal, hm?

[applebough]

[ Yuri just gives Blade a flat stare before putting the practice sword away. ]

Normalcy is subjective. I just don't want you to be in too much pain from your mission when there's an obvious solution right there. You don't have to live in obvious physical pain for the most part.

[ Also if Blade gets killed because of this, she's going to kill him twice in the gy. ]

[baebladie]

[ Blade receives the flat stare in which indicates she probably wants to flick him in the forehead, which would be totally valid of her. ]

Hm...I suppose that's your concern speaking, isn't it? Even if...

[ Blade trails off, staring off a bit, before his crooked smile re-emerges. ]

Then, provided I see another day, I will utilize that technology to its fullest extent.

[applebough]

[ Even if... what? Yuri is about to ask, but she gets this compromise. She's fine with this. She gets out the eucalyptus pain cream and smears it around where she thinks are more recently injuries that are currently visible with the dogs on him. She's wearing gloves, so no rust pain link. ]

I hope to see you use it, then.

[baebladie]

[ Usually he's covered like all the time. But, the easiest place for that would be his arms (with sleeves rolled up, which she can totally ask him to do...his arms and hands are probs free.)

Whatever the case, the relief of pain is noticeable. ]

We will see.

...You also sustained more wounds? [ Looping back around to his first question, because yeah. ] Did you use that cream for yourself?

[applebough]

Yes, I used the cream for myself. I will be using more of it too.

[ She's sharing. Yuri has done something similar in vampire planet too, with the anti-bite balm. ]

Rats bit me.

[ All over her hands. Her hands are just full on rust now. She looks so tired. ]

[baebladie]

[ Sharing is caring...

Well, Blade is actually glad about that. You know, not about her getting bitten by the rats because that sounds like it sucks ass. ]

...Rats? I wasn't aware this ship had some sort of...infestation.

[ With the tone of 'do I have to exterminate some rats?' Not that he knows they're gone by now, and it would be impossible to do in curfew but the spirit is there. ]

[applebough]

[ The spirit sure is there. Yuri slightly huffs. ]

They were a little like the monsters that I'm more used to. The rats tried to merge into one giant rat, but I fended them off. So, I'm fine. They're all gone now.

[baebladie]

[ They can be united in this...that being said, Blade gives a light scoff and a shake of his head. Disgusting... ]

Good riddance.

Perhaps it would be foolish to presume you got anything of value out of that beyond vanquishing them, and yet...

[ Well. Besides clearing the infestation. There is that. ]

[applebough]

Oh, I found a log. Would you like to see it? It's quite... something.

[baebladie]

...Quite something?

[ A wooden log? Or... ]

[applebough]

Yes.

[ One of Blade's arms are free at least, so she puts the handwritten report in his hand. ]

I managed to make a handwritten copy before it disappeared.

[baebladie]

"Passive" "Consumption" "Integration" "Influence"

[ ... Apparently, these are where Blade's eyes land with greater interest in its immediacy. ]

[applebough]

[ Yup, that's where Yuri's eye went too. But also: ]

The "digestion rate" is certainly foreboding... Do you have any ideas?

[baebladie]

I wondered if we are considered...as a form of sustenance, in some manner.

[ Blade doesn't hesitate to provide his opinion, but the problem is he had nothing to base it on. At least before. This time, seems to be a bit different. His focus is a little bit more sharpened as he speaks. ]

It makes me think...of where we were before. It was mentioned, by one of those 'people', the one who looked like Rodya...that the place we were in was "using people, feeding off of them like a battery". That's why it was necessary to destroy the Core.

It must be related.

[applebough]

The Core? Back in Volk...?

[ Yuri has no comments about being used for sustenance. ]

[baebladie]

[ :) ]

This 'location' did not 'seem' to be on VOLK. Or at least, we had to ride through a dark fog nearby the world, rather than landing on VOLK itself, to get to the entrance of the entirety of the place.

The Core was, of course, deeper inside of said area.

[ Giving a bit more context location particulars wise. As for sort of what he touched on previous: ]

Which a 'seed' functioned as exactly that - this I briefly mentioned to you before...when you stopped by.

[applebough]

I see...

[ Yuri closes her eye. This is so much. She gets out her IRIS and makes a note of what Blade says. ]

Thank you, Blade, though very ominous.

[ More than usual. ]

[baebladie]

[ Blade gives a small, little nod at that.

But, other than that, doesn't say much of anything else. ]