✘ | 002 | VOICE

[wecanavenge]

[Filtered to INMATES, excluding Wanda and Arthas]

Some of you have been here for years. I want to know what you've learned. [He's testing the waters here, putting out feelers. Who's into this redemption line they're spoon feeding us, and who's willing to fight for their freedom. Just not in so many words.] Have you allowed them to try and change you? Do you believe everything they've promised?

[Private to Arthas]

I'm told you hate this ship and everything it claims to stand for. Was I misinformed?

[Private to Ivy]

I think it's time we find out just who sees reason among us. [A pause, and an afterthought:] It would be prudent of you to avoid a man named Charles Xavier.

[Private to Charles]

Pyro. [What is up with this future kid mutants knowing us thing. :|]

Comments

private

[surrenders]

Been here long enough to figure it out.

[ She doesn't know if it's good that it seems like she's so easily led or not. ]

private

[wecanavenge]

Then you should know that ducking your head and keeping silent doesn't last.

private

[surrenders]

You stay out of trouble, you disappear, get out of here. You fight, you last. It's like this place knows.

private

[wecanavenge]

Silence breeds more silence. Didn't we just agree that you have to fight?

private

[surrenders]

Think your fighting and mine are different.

[ She exhales, and looks more tired than before. ]

You can't change how things work here. Not for long. But they don't have to change you. That's the only fight you can win, is not giving in to who they want you to be.

private

[wecanavenge]

Then forgive me if I've misunderstood the purpose of this ship, but there's no way to get out that way. According to them.

private

[surrenders]

At least half of us get out that way. Nobody makes anything special out of it, you're just gone one day like you never were here.

[ It's not the kind of thing they'd tell you, Erik, but you seem smart enough she can leave it unsaid. ]

private

[wecanavenge]

[Pause. Pause. What the fuck is this boat. :|] People have just disappeared?

private

[surrenders]

[ What the fuck indeed. ]

All the time.

private

[wecanavenge]

[murderous rage building. :|] Never heard from again? Gone without a trace?

private

[surrenders]

[ She's getting a bad feeling about this, so doesn't say anything, but yes. ]

private

[wecanavenge]

How many?

private

[surrenders]

Mm, five or ten a month... sometimes more.

private

[wecanavenge]

Only inmates?

Re: private

[surrenders]

[ She shakes her head, starting to maybe see where he's going with this. ]

Re: private

[wecanavenge]

How long has it been going on? [He is going to sit on this information and then possibly explode, but. You know.]

private

[surrenders]

Long as anyone's been here.

private

[wecanavenge]

[At first, there's a very long silence, and the video clicks off. Erik's furious. Enraged, really. And doesn't need her seeing him while he gets himself under control. His whole room would be shaking if his mutation wasn't dampened, but as it is, she might here a few, small things rattling before the feed dies.

It's a few minutes before it comes back on, and then only audio. His voice is tightly controlled.]

Thank you, Lua. This is good information to have.