It is a bit for us as well, though speaking in all truthfulness, I was unaware for years of using it that it was meant originally to imply a short stay. No one ever left, after all.
...Ah. My home was slightly less restrictive, or rather less selective in who was allowed to leave and when. I was one of the residents who had been there longest, and I had only been there for... mmm. A little over four years when we left.
No one that was visible. I was part of the police force that kept order there, but someone or something else was responsible for the challenge-like events that occasionally occurred.
...That isn't a bad comparison, though. It was perhaps a little more like a very rural city, in that the population was low and only people fitting a certain template were welcomed to stay.
My, have I called bad experiences to mind? But that is what made it such a surprise, the application of authority, that you would hold such a role willingly.
I don't have a problem with authority unless it holds itself above the people it's supposed to serve. Our force wasn't an authority so much as we were damage control for the few who came in with intentions to bring harm to others.
Oh, we all loved our benevolent and magnanimous overseers,
[ and here there is a noise that cannot possibly be made by a human tongue, sickening and drawing up a bone deep dread, sharp and wet all at once even as it shifts in tone and pitch and nature like indistinguishable syllables ]
[ makes the sort of face one might expect from someone who had just gotten a drink thrown in their face, but didn't want to give any satisfaction by reacting overly much. gross. ]
That isn't precisely what I meant, but fair enough.
[ lifts hir palms, enjoying hirself even if se doesn't laugh out loud ]
It was a rare occasion for them to communicate in direct fashion, regardless, let alone present themselves to intervene. They'd their rules set from the beginning, and haven't cared to change them at least certainly in however many hundreds of years I resided there. The greater concern was what inspired feats their system brought about in others.
...It was more of a home to me than the place I originally came from was. It didn't really have a name.
[ not one he'd ever willingly used, anyway. he's pretty sure that calling it "the dressing room" was some sort of joke on that one clown of an android's part, anyway... ]
Anyway, my thought had nearly always been that we'd primarily been brought there for someone's entertainment.
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was_no_monster) wrote2014-08-27 10:13 pm
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A close acquaintance, this second?
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No. Someone I met briefly around the same time we first spoke; I believe he's since either left or fallen victim to the labyrinth.
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What, were they never called such at your own first gathering place?
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[ a. beat ]
It seems save for myself.
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...That isn't a bad comparison, though. It was perhaps a little more like a very rural city, in that the population was low and only people fitting a certain template were welcomed to stay.
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Oh? Taken with a fair bit of difference, but to think we might have that point in common.
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My, have I called bad experiences to mind? But that is what made it such a surprise, the application of authority, that you would hold such a role willingly.
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We served our superiors, no one which could be called "people" by any stretch.
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[ and here there is a noise that cannot possibly be made by a human tongue, sickening and drawing up a bone deep dread, sharp and wet all at once even as it shifts in tone and pitch and nature like indistinguishable syllables ]
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That isn't precisely what I meant, but fair enough.
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It was a rare occasion for them to communicate in direct fashion, regardless, let alone present themselves to intervene. They'd their rules set from the beginning, and haven't cared to change them at least certainly in however many hundreds of years I resided there. The greater concern was what inspired feats their system brought about in others.
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[ though it's said with something of a dry bitterness, not quite like an agreement ]
"Home"?
well, he's not *wrong*...
[ not one he'd ever willingly used, anyway. he's pretty sure that calling it "the dressing room" was some sort of joke on that one clown of an android's part, anyway... ]
Anyway, my thought had nearly always been that we'd primarily been brought there for someone's entertainment.
HE'S ONTO US
A view of every street and every corner, just for them to watch the going-ons of each new day!
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