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Sadie exits the ship, her arms crossed and her brows furrowed. Obviously, this is a big difference in her, as normally she is skipping.
Xanya extis the ship and grabs sadies hand if she lets her. giving a smile to sadie. "you doing alright love?" she asks to sadie sounding worried.
John departs from the shuttle, looking around thoughtfully, the man immediately seeming to wander towards some dirt and sand to get it all up in the treads of his boots. Oh, it'll be a huge mess when he finally reboards Vessa's nice, clean ship.
The spaceport of Demaria is about like every other spaceport ever seen of course, except for the wreckage in the center and the golden statue shining in the alien sun.
Vessa steps outside of the ship and looks around, "Well there you go then, different universe different world, now we are trans-universal tourists, just remember you buy it you have to haul it."
Sadie looks down at her hand as Xanya grabs it. She mutters softly, "Fine..just fine." She sighs, moving her hand away from Xanya's and walks over to Vessa's side.
Lorelei was like a shadow to Vessa, her black uniform helping her look the part as her hands ocasionally shed a few snowflakes or sparked. "Ma'am, please stay in eyesight so that it may jump to you in an emergency.
Zu notes how much of a downer Sadie is being at the moment. Not that he's much of a ray of sunshine, but he's at least brighter than her right now. Due to this he chooses a new perch in Vessa, who is little more than a hop away at this point to ask "So what exactly should we be expecting to come across here?"
Varal steps off the ship, moving to the periphery of the group almost immediately. Once he does so, he crosses his arms and looks around - trying to get his bearings.
Xanya looks worried as sadie did not except her hand. She feels her heart starting to pound as if in her trought. She wants to say something but keeps silent.
Varal idly plays with the teeth dangling from his necklace as he nods to John. "I'm slowly finding that the fuzzy ones are the ones you can trust least, but I might be putting a lot of things together there," he says with a shrug. "Think she can find Fastheld?"
"From everything I found about Fastheld, or Palisade, or any of the possible other countless names it was called..." John begins to comment, looking skyward with a quirk of his mouth. "It wouldn't matter if she could. She wouldn't be able to get close."
Sadie looks back to Xanya, letting out a long sigh. Her shoulders slump as she turns back around, facing out from the ship.
Vessa blinks at Lore, "Oh sure uh this will take some getting used to." she looks at Sadie with concern and then to Zu says, "No idea, Newt liked it though."
Varal frowns at John. "Palisade? Can't get close?"
Conner disembarks from the ship as well, keeping to the back of the group and trying to go unnoticed. She looks around at the new world, a bit awestruck by it. She speaks to herself, softly, "I never thought I'd ever step foot on another world.."
"It's something with all the moons or because there's other stuff around it," John tries to explain, making random gestures with his hands that he likely thinks resembles asteroids and planets and such. "Nobody can approach on ship."
Lorelei turned her head from side to side as she scanned the area nervously. For the rather strange girl, the look of fear was incredably unusual.
Xanya Looks a round to the new world there at. but she is not realy noticing anything as she is thinking to herself.
Zu goes quite once more and merely waits to see what will be seen. His eyes, however appear to be taking in everything, though in a very cool, calculating manner rather than he awe that one would expect when being in a new universe.
Keeping regular hours is not one of Fritz's fortes, the man used to doing whatever he wants, when he wants and still, in the grand scheme of things, somewhat fresh to both Hiverspace and having to work to earn money. The work he has done hasn't really seen him take to a regular schedule yet, and so it is that the German is awaking after napping on the way down to the planet. As he disembarks he cleans his glasses, visions of the crowd blurred and individuals indistinguishable from one another.
Varal swallows heavily, looking away from John. "So. We never go home, then," he says sadly. "Until we enter the Light." With a deep breath, he looks back at John. He smiles sadly. "At least there aren't wildlings."
Vessa looks at Varal and laughs, "Oh yes there are if the fastheldians who saw the thing that bit me knew their stuff."
Sadie looks around at the new planet, taking it in.
It's something he knew before. But just hearing such a fact voiced, and by someone whom he has such a history with such as Varal at that, makes John pause, the man having a bit of difficulty finding his voice. He clears his throat a bit, trying to push past a lump, though Vessa's interjection draws his thoughts back to the present. "What?" he blinks at her. "There's Wildlings? Where?"
Conner quickly steps away from Fritz when he comes out. The man was an odd duck and creeped her out. She stands a bit away from the group and simply looks at the world around them.
Varal's hand unconsciously clench into fists, and he just stares at Vessa. John does the talking for the both of them.
"Vildlings?" Fritz inquires as he replaces his glasses on the bridge of his nose, taking a moment to sort through all the information stored in that head of his, "Ah, those. If zhere are some, I vould like to capture one alive to study."
Lorelei narrowed her eyes, "W..whats a wildling?" she said as the frost began to collect around her hands, "Some kind of beast?" she wondered aloud "It has never seen anything called in such a way Ma'am"
Vessa rubs a section of her left shoulder as she answers, "Pyracan, we are planning a hunt, the sheriff and I with anyone who can. They are all over the mountain and getting worse but we haven't had enough people to do the hunt. There are those who have said they were interested but it has been so long the problem must have grown by now." she nods to Fritz, "That would be difficult the things are fast." to Lore se says, "They are like little demons that bite and thankfully the one that got me wasn't poisonous but I hear that most are. They are fast and strong and bloody irritating. I happened to be naked when the first two found me and that didn't help."
Zu smirks a bit adn replies "It's a bit hard to take advantage of being quick and irritating when you get taken by surprise. I think I might be in my element if he hunt for them."
Xanya looks to vessa hearing about a hunt. "think I can help out with that hunt?" She asks vessa. not sounding her usuall cheerfull self.
"Why were you naked?" John asks Vessa, eyebrows lifting as he stares at her for a moment, before he shakes his head sharply. "Repeated poisonings by wildlings cause brain damage and dementia. Even a one off can cause hallucinations after the fact, if you don't choke to death on your spit while you're paralyzed. You shouldn't go after them without fully enclosed body armor, if at all."
The mention of 'Naked' had the most interesting reaction from the strange girl, a beet red blush from ear to ear. "It....it understands Ma'am" she said while looking more now in the direction of Vessa's feet. "Well, Perhaps this time It can keep you from being so.....c..compromised." she said "F..for your safety." After a moment she jerked her head to the side at the sound of a twig snaping off in the distance as a pair of 'blades' made of ice practicly erupted around her hands "Who's there!?" she demanded
Sadie quickly whips her head around as Xanya speaks, her eyes sad but wide as she looks at Xanya. She looks down at the ground after a moment, breathing hard and slow.
"You're lucky to be alive. Every time I've dealt with them, I was left on the Light's very doorstep," Varal says, playing with the five wildling fangs dangling from his neck. "If there are wildlings on Pyracan, then we need to hunt every last one of them down and exterminate them like the accursed monsters they are. Not even one can be left alive." He slowly crosses his arms, though his hands drop to his pistols as Lorelei makes her ice blades. The matched pair slides out of their holsters remaining pointed at the ground. Varal hisses, "Mage."
Vessa clears her throat and lifts a finger to wink at John, "Sode wa himitsu desu. We were not expecting wildlings at the time, we were there for a hike. We were surprised and as I was injured the person with me got me out before it went further. I was lucky and plan to be in heavy smartsuit armor next time, I tend not to wander around skyclad thanks."
Lorelei's attention slowly draws towards Varal "It wonders...what is a Mage?" she said curiously as she looked about, inching closer to Vessa. "Ma'am....what exactly do these ...things...look like..."
"Are zhey too intelligent for live traps?" Fritz presses further, coming to stand just to the left of John and Varal, "I vould not vish my specimen to be battered." With a dull gaze he watches Lorelei for a moment, then offers to Vessa, "She suffers from PTSD, sie vill have to see she gets therapy before it becomes even worse, sie know."
John shudders as the ice forms around Lorelai's hands, one of his eyelids twitching slightly as he stares at the blades. "E...easy," he says to Varal.
Conner hears the discussion of the horrible beasts and hunting them and poisonous bites and pales just a bit. She lifts a hand up, pointing back towards the ship, "Um, I think I'll just wait in the shuttle.. Where it's safe. And I won't get eaten." She begins moving back towards the shuttle's entry.
Varal puts the pistols back with exaggerated care, nodding to John. "I understand the etiquette of this place, as misguided as it may be," he states, letting Lorelei's question go unanswered. The Fastheldian's comportment towards the woman, though, has become as icy as her abilities. Taking a deep breath, he frowns at Fritz. "They are bloody smart. Organized. Not great at making weapons, but capable of using them. Then again, with claws that cut the finest steel, they don't need weapons."
Xanya sighs a bit as vessa apperently did not hear her question. she doesn't bother asking again and looks up to the sky. trailing off in her thoughts.
"If we had such fine materials available on Fastheld to make armor with as we do here, perhaps countless of Lord Mikin' and my countrymen wouldn't have been slaughtered by them," John adds with a glance to Fritz.
Sadie sighs before she walks up to the statue and away from everyone. She looks up at the statue, cocking her head at the missing fist in it. "That's how it should be.." she mumbles before sighing softly.
Vessa sighs, "Okay weapons away, the noise was likely a native," she indicates the large sentient cat people who are now staring and talking about the mish mash of odd humans new the ship, "I am beginning to think they might ask us to leaves. Xan if you want to do the hunt then I want your shooting skills up first."
Lorelei's iceblades fratured and became as snow just as quick as they had appeared, the girl holding her hand to the shaved section on the back of her head with a whimper. "Ma'am, Have you contacted the resident beings on this planet? It wonders if they know we mean no harm?"
Zu doesn't appear to like being under the scrutiny of the big kitties but doesn't actually say anything in regards to it. Just looking at them in the same way he was looking at the terrain. After a moment it occurs to him that he's probably receiving extra looks being the only Hiverspace native in the group so the Demarians here would likely have never seen one of his kind before. At this he looks to Vessa and asks with a bit of a smirk "Permission to have a little fun with the natives?"
Sadie looks around at the kitties, flashing a smile to each of them. She curiously approaches one of them. "Hi there! My name's Sadie!"
Varal looks at Xanya, staring at the woman for a few long seconds. "She would be like bringing them a meal. Hunt is the wrong word to use for wildlings, because they're hunting you, too. You only bring a novice if you happen to have one tagging along when they find you first. I would advise bringing only veterans, unless you like losing friends in droves."
"Vould zhey be as intelligent as a human?" Inquires the German further to both Varal and John, brows raising above pale eyes, "I vould very, very much like to study zhem." Fritz concludes with a whistful sigh.
Xanya looks to vessa and nods. "of course vessa. I will train harder. so I can....." She sighs and doesn't finish her sentance. instead she looks at sadie wondering about things.
"Please, Miss. I'd strongly encourage you to not underestimate the threat that a tribe of wildlings poses," John adds in emphasis to Varal's words. "They stalk the night. They tunnel. If you're not quick and skilled..." His eyes dart to Xanya. "They'll be cracking open your head and eating your brain."
Vessa shrugs to Lore, "I haven't contacted them as of yet but they seem to get visitors often." she nods to John, "Man I killed three of the bastards and only got hit cause I was trying to protect someone intent on doing the same to me. It got too close and got me. I have a few new toys since then. I will take your words to heart however when choosing who comes with me. Now lets see more than the spaceport shall we?"
Conner slips back just inside the shuttle and stares at the panel, wondering how she could close the boarding ramp in event the monsters that are being discussed attack, "Um, can someone tell me how I can close this thing up so I don't get eaten?"
Vessa shakes her head in answer to Zu, "Don't do that man, play nice with the natives." The native Sadie greets nods, "Hello human, what is yourrrr purrrpose?"
Zu chuckles a bit and replies "All I meant was introducing myself. The odd of them ever seeing a Tupai before now are astronomical."
Sadie smiles at the kitty talking to her, uncrossing her arms. "I think we are just exploring. We used our rift drive for the first time. What is your name?"
Xanya looks to john and veral. "me not skilled? I may not have seen the kind of combat vessa has in her days. But I am skilled in my own kind of combat. and when something or somneone threatens the people I care about....." she cocks her head to sadie. "....They will have an other things comming." She says and sounds dead serious, and a bit of anger in her voice and eyes, but it's not directed at anyone right now.
"There's risk-reward, and back-to-the-wall. Save the antics for backs-to-the-wall," Varal says, before looking back at John. "The more they talk, the less I think these are real wildlings." He pauses. "Things look well in hand. I'll be on the ship. Ring me if I'm needed."
"My name is Brrrrighteye, and you arrrrre on Demarrrria. What is a rrrrrift drrrrive? I do not think we have seen such a thing human." Brighteye eyes Sadie then the rest of the group like they are mental. Vessa nods to Fritz and says, "Oh I know she has PSTS and hoping to help here through it." she heads over to Sadie and gives Brighteye a nod, then grins to Zu, "Go ahead Zu, but we should probably move along soon."
Sadie smiles and nods to Brighteye. "I really don't know what it is either.. I think it makes it possible for us to move around to different universes. Or something." Sadie giggles, eying the Demarian curiously. "It's nice to meet you, Brighteye."
At hearing her name Lorelei turns her head "It does not have anything wrong with it. It is the masterpiece of Dr. Rose. The only surviving Project...."
Zu takes off at this point to go and land on the shoulder of Sadie, his hearing is good enough to have caught the Demarian's name and says himself "Hello, Brighteye. My name is Zu. I'm a native of the universe we have just come from. My name is Zu." He seems interested in gauging the response of the Demarians to his appearance more than anything at the moment.
"You do not simply 'help someone through it', Frau. She vill need medication und professional therapy." Fritz intones towards Vessa, eyes drifting back to Lorelei with a sharpness to his stare, "If zhis is what 'Doctor Rose' considers a masterpiece, zhen 'Doctor Rose' is a blithering fool. Sie cannot even speak properly, sie show clear signs of several disorders, including PTSD und AXIS II disorders. It is quite obvious 'Doctor Rose' is not ein professional. 'Doctor Rose' is, as we say, ein 'hack'."
Brighteye looks at the bat thing named Zu and tail begins to lash, eyes narrow and lips pull back, ears back, "What arrrre you Zu thing?
Vessa begins to look uncomfortable, "It will have to be her choice, I do not," a pause, "I can't," she just shakes her head and answers Conner, "The wildlings are not on this planet Conner, they are not in this universe either as far as I know so don't worry nothing will eat you."
John looks mildly agitated. Possibly it's all of the wildling talk. The man starts to pace back and forth aimlessly, before darting a look to Fritz again. "They can talk. They're intelligent. They have a culture and tribal society. They even build dwellings." He taps his forehead. "I still have nightmares from the amount of venom I've been poisoned with. And I'm fairly lucky."
Zu smiles a bit and replies "My race is called the Tupai. From what I understand we are akin to the bats that you might be familiar with. The main difference being size, and the fact that we are sentient." The bat now projects a bit of confidence rather than his normal shiftiness, though he does watch the Demarian's reactions very carefully.
Xanya takes a deep breath and then looks to the group forming around bright eye. She moves over to them but stays at a slight distance.
Lorelei looked rather alarmed at the sudden trashing of Doctor Rose, "It's Father was NOT a hack!" she suddenly barked, in a rather uncharacteristic turn for her, blinking out of existance and back in inches away from Fritz "You will not talk badly of the Creator. He is my father, my maker and a GENIUS!" she snapped and as if on cue, the girls face went from hardened soldier to lost child "He......he wasnt a b..b...bad man..." she said weakly.
Sadie sighs as she nods to Brighteyes and Zu talking. She looks to her left as Zu and the Demarian talk.
For a moment Fritz regards John with a bit of hunger in his eyes, the hunger of a man who is viewing another man as something to potentially study, "Nightmare from zie venom? How intersting." His gaze fades back to a dull sharpness, edging towards bored as he regards Lorelei who has appeared so close, "A Genius? Ha! Ha!" His laughter is short, barking - almost mocking, one hand reaching within the pocket of his coat as the other reaches to rest upon Lorelei's shoulder. He steps closer to her, leaning down a bit to catch her gaze and stare into her eyes as if captivated by her, though his demeanour and expression betray this not to be the case, "Vhat you are experiencing is called Stockholm syndrom, Fraulein, und I vill not baby you as ozhers vill. I vill speak of your 'Creator' as I vish, und I vill tell you right now zhat he is a sub-intelligent hack who deserves no praise." In what may seem an odd gesture, he moves to pull Lorelei into a hug, "Does a good father abandoned his children, Fraulein?"
Brighteye seems fascinated by Zu and other Demarians begin to arrive too looking if anything hungry. "Indeed?
Vessa turns sharply at Lore getting upset and hurries over immediately, looking both angry and worried as she stands nearby but doesn't yet act until she sees Lore's reaction to Fritz's actions. "I have to admit, a parent does not act that way Lorelei. A parent should /never/ act that way." is there some personal history in that emphasis? perhaps perhaps.
Zu smirks just a bit as the hungry looking Demarians arrive on the scene and notes to Brighteye "Yes. There are many others. Such a formiddable amount, in fact that we recently overthrew the Nall joined with around 4 other races who were occupying our planet."
Lorelei's eyes go wide as shes 'hugged' A sudden growl of rage comes from her, as is likely no big suprise to the doctor. "Dont touch it!" she barks as she grabs ahold of his arm, the pair of them flicker for a moment, but go no where, which only causes a look of panic as the ground at her feat begins to ice over, slowly expanding from where she stands a few feet, but nothing more. "Do you have any idea the things he made it DO!?" The girl had a look of mania on her face as she reached for a pocket withdrawing a small metal object.
Sadie looks to Zu, then to the Demarians. Sighing, she smiles. "I think I'm going to go back to the ship.." Her voice trails off as she watches Lorelei, raising a brow.
Vessa grints and moves quickly moving to hug Lorelei from the other side and taking hold of the hand reaching for whatever before speaking quietly into her ear, "Hey you are safe now stand down and that is an order."
Lorelei's eyes were like saucers as she felt her arm being grabbed, The order given to her causes her to pause, turning her head to the side "What?"
The Demarians just look at Zu hungrily, "I see, and wherrrrre are they. Yourrrr people?"
Xanya looks to lorelei and what is happening around her. seeing vessa is helping to solve it she looks to sadie hearing her speak of going back into the ship. Xanya thinks to herself.
The outburst sees Fritz, as imagined, not at all surprised. He keeps his arm around Lorelei while she attempts to teleport the two of them, disregards the ice spreading at their feet entirely and doesn't even seem to be listening to a thing she's saying, "Yes, yes, of course." He murmurs dismissively, the hand that had drifted into his pocket earlier pulling free, and grasping a syringe. It's plunged into Lorelei's neck and depressed, flushing a clear sedative into her veins. With but a glance to Vessa he quickly stows away the empty syringe and sweeps the girl off her feet, "It is just a mild sedative." He offers as a bit of an after-thought in reassurance.
Zu smiles a bit more and takes flight as Sadie leaves before flying back towards Vessa and the ship "You'll probably find out soon enough." Once to Vessa he notes "They appear a bit hostile towards me. Not openly but in body language. I'm going back on the ship for now before I'm attacked for food."
Sadie looks to Xanya and walks over to her, silently leaning into her softly as she watches everything.
Vessa does not look thrilled and shakes her head, "I am not happy about this, medications are not the only answer, sedation is a band aid damn it and forcing somebody to go unconscious is," about now Vessa is shaking with anger. She gives a short sharp nod to Zu, "Very well, they will not attack you without repercussion anyway." She resists Fritz pulling Lorelei away and shakes her head, "I will take her." and waits for the girls return, "There are better ways." her voice is akin to a growl at this point.
"Too much magic," John grumbles to himself. "And now wildlings. I need to get back to Eiru." He looks rather noticably worried, glancing around before trudging back to the shuttle, wandering through a huge patch of dirt, leaving tracks across the tarmac and soon to be up into the shuttle.
The girl whimpers, her blue and green eyes rolled into the back of her head, tears flowing as the sedative does its work. For a moment, she blinks in and out but again goes no where, soon she curles up in whomever's arms as has her and just begins to cry.
Sadie nods slowly, staying silent against Xanya. She walks slower than usual by Xanya.
"Und meanwhile you let her have outbursts like zhat, trusting zhat she will listen to you simply telling her to stand down." Fritz offers sternly back at Vessa, not fazed by her irritation either, "She has shown instability und vere it not for vhatever inability to follow through, intent towards violence. Smarten up, else you vill be responsible for allowing her to hurt others by unknowingly setting her off." He sniffs, letting Vessa take Lorelei fully, "Your personal opinion is not a valid basis for treatment, Frau."
Vessa moves the girl in her arms so that Lore is more comfortable and frowns, "I have no problem with helping her, I have no problem with her getting treatment but you do realize that there is this respect thing yes? Trust is earned damn it and that is not the way to earn it. Everyone back on board, we are leaving." she looks at Fritz and shakes her head, "Your opinion has been noted Doctor, you have my gratitude for your help to me, but I will not allow /any/ of my people to be shown anything but respect. I admit she was turning violent and if need be I would have moved to protect whoever would have been attacked, but sedating someone without asking is wrong." she shakes her head and says quietly, "There should always be choice," then carries Lore onto the ship.
Xanya walks with sadie having her left arm around her loves waist waling together to the ship. and with vessa;s words she makes her way towards the ship to enter it.
"Prevention has nozhing to do vith disrespect. Und asking if someone vishes to be sedated or not is ridiculous und assuming of good self-judgement, which is not present." Fritz intones, wrinkling his nose slightly, "It is all well and fine to zhink you can protect someone if things turn, but when you fail, Frau?" He inquires as he follows on board.
Just whimpered at the screaming covering her head with her hands as if to block out the yelling as she quivered.
Sadie watches Lorelei in Vessa's arms, her eyes widening. A small smile flickers across her face, a smile of remembrance, of gratitude, and of immense love.
Conner finds a nice out of the way place on the shuttle, trying to avoid the argument that is ongoing and mostly just trying to keep to herself.
Xanya still having sadie in her left arm she looks to lore. She still looks concerend but also still worried.
"Tsk, and so you would be thrilled if someone decides that you are a danger then good Doctor? That they up and inject you with something that makes your head go funny? That they choose to /control/ you rather then put in the effort of working through the situation?" Vessa's tone lowers and she attempts to take the anger out of it, instead shaking her head. "I might fail to protect, I would prefer that there not be someone else there at the time but barring that I will put myself before an attacker." she shakes her head again, "It isn't right, and it isn't acceptable."
Lorelei continues to shake in Vessa's arms, "Im sorry" she manages to whisper, "Im sorry daddy" she manages before whimpering again.
"You are taking a clear cut situation und adding extreme conditions to it, which I vill have to assume are part of your own experience. Experiences vhich, vhile undersireable, sie do no favours by projecting zhem onto ozhers. The effort of vorking through psychological conditions of vhich sie have no basis of knowledge of how to diagnose, nor treat is more zhen likely to cause more harm in zie end. It is vith noble but foolish intention sie continue. Frankly, Frau, if zhere is zie threat of violence levelled towards me, I vill proceed handle zie situation as I see fit. Much as you protest sie vill do." Fritz retorts, levelling his pale eyes upon Vessa, "I cannot say sie have shown considerably good judgement in matters needing medical treatment yourself, Frau. I have read your medical files - /all of zhem/."
Arms tightening at Lore's words but not enough to hurt, Vessa frowns first to the girl, "You are fine, and you are safe." Then a scowl is sent Fritz's way, "Yeah, I have made some bad decisions, and? I have yet to meet someone who hasn't. Does that mean I must be /drugged/?" the word is near spat as is the next, "/restrained/? How are those actions acceptable? I was doing no harm to anyone at the time. I have no problem supporting her getting help, even encouraging it but I will /not/ force her and I will not allow anyone else to either."
"Sie are, once again, projecting. Tell me, Frau, sie say sie vill come to anozher's defence if zhere is violence. Then, how is it any different sie level force upon someone to subdue zhem? Zie difference is, to sedate her does no harm, while sie find physical violence as a response acceptable. It is hypocritical. Sie arbitrarily elevate one over zie ozher based on your poor experience und project suspicion unfairly upon ozhers because sie expect your own experiences to be repeated." Fritz leans against the bulkhead just inside the bridge, arms crossing lightly over his chest, "Your assumption zhat zie judgement I speak of vas vhat saw sie having such poor experiences is incorrect. I assume, however, sie do no vish for me to go on at length about such incedences as sie shooting yourself, Ja? Simply put, sie cannot expect to competently help anozher vith psychological issues vhen sie have issues of your own. On top of vhich, it must again be noted, sie are not qualified to deal vith in zie first place."
The girl seeing familiar teritory blinks out of existance and curls up in a corner against the ceiling, much like a frightened child in a bedroom, she balls up and just keeps silent and to her self.
Xanya shakes her head listing to what the doctor says. "It sounds like your one of those types who thinks they know whats best for everyone. making everyone follow your point of view. well newsflash for you dear doctor. not everyone is like you." She says with a slight hint of anger. "All I am hearing from you so far is that you like to force your ways upon people. Be careful not to try that one me... or any of my friends, without our concent."
Sadie looks at Xanya, surprised at her words. She crosses her arms slowly, looking to the ground.
Vessa lets her arms fall as Lore blinks out and reappears, looks at her in concern then sighs and pinches the bridge of her nose, "I have no need to defend my actions to you or anyone else Doc, and Doc Al should not have shared that information with you." she smirks, "Did he mention he back handed me during treatment for a preconceived notion of my motivations as well?" hand falling to the side she looks back up, "The situation involved and what I did are not subject to discussion. Nor are my supposed issues. You want me to talk you earn my trust, till then you won't get anything from me. I have said my piece, thanks ever so for spreading my personal medical information around in the hearing of my crew." Her voice and face lack expression by this point and she moves to the cockpit.
"Your medical records are not private to Alastair alone, Frau. As a doctor who has treated sie, I have access to all of zhat information in case any of it is relevant to having needed to treat sie. Just as any ozher doctor vould have. Alastair's actions have nozhing to do vith me." Xanya is offered a dismissive wave, "Und you speak vithout knowing vhat you are on about." To Vessa again, "You are not mein concern." Turning his back to Vessa, he moves over towards the cornered and curled up Lorelei, quietly watching her for the moment.
Lorelei looks down from her place on the ceiling for a moment, her mismatched eyes meeting with Fritz's as she looks about the bridge, the argument seeming to really bother her in her present state.
Vessa shrugs, "Doesn't mean you had to share that information with all and sundry now did it? As for your concern, she is my concern as well. Do not make this an issue please." seeing that the argument has caused further upset she sighs and moves over to Lore as well, "Hey, no one is fighting, it is all fine." she tries to warm her voice up a bit, how successful she is is subject to debate but the concern is there and sincere.
Xanya sighs bit and takes a deep breath. while she still holds sadie in her left arm. Trying to calm herself which seems to be easy with sadie so close to her.
Fritz reaches into his pocket for his handkerchief, glasses in need of another cleaning. Seeming to focus on that, he begins to sing quietly in German towards Lorelei, his voice a rich, deep baritone. From the tone and pace of the song, it's likely to be a lullaby.
The girl looks from face to face, her cheeks red with the blush of shame. It would be pretty clear she understood her actions caused the whole argument. After a moment, the girl fell from the ceiling, blinking out of existance and back in in one of the chairs, knee's pulled up to her chest. "It.....it's sorry..." she said with a weak voice.
Xanya nods to sadie. "Sure my love. want to talk in private?"
Vessa shakes her head, spins on her heel, and settles beside Lore and tries to pull her into her arms, "Hey, shh it's alright. Next time you feel upset though why don't we have a chat rather then violence kay?"
he girl looks to the object and reaches a hand out, cautiously taking it she begins touching the buttons curiously as she looks the object over. "Thank you Sir" she says softly with a yawn, sedative clearly hitting her harder than intended.
"You are velcome, Fraulein. Mein grandfazher gave it to mein fazher und he gave it to me. I do not have any children, so you may have it instead. Perhaps it vill help you feel calmer vhen you play zie music und vatch zie images." Fritz offers, lips pulling up in a subdued smile as his dull gaze turns, again, upon Lorelei.
Vessa breaths a small, hopefully unheard sigh of relief and relaxes. Leaning back into her own chair she uses her free hand to rub at one temple and closes her eyes but doesn't intrude.
"Dr. Rose gave It It's p..p.powers" she said with a smile. "He made It special...made It important..." she smiled a tear in her eye. "Said It was his greatest invention, and his greatest creation" she smiled. "But It feels broken, more now than before..."
Vessa looks like she really wants to say something but shakes her head and keeps quiet, her hand that had been rubbing her temple on the chair arm instead and only the extremely tight grip on that showing any withheld emotion
"'It' is not ein object und should not refer to herself as one." Fritz encourages quietly, leg crossing loosely over the other as his hands come to rest in his lap, "Everyzhing zhat is broken can be fixed, Fraulein."
"W..why give It a present?" she asked, "It tried to fuse you with the hull of the shuttle" she said, "It doesnt deserve..."
"I agree with the Doc, you are not an It, and you do deserve it if he gave it to you." Vessa says quietly
"Lorelei" she said softly "Lorelei doesnt deserve any gifts...." she continued "She tried to fuse the Doctor with something....That makes her a bad thing..."
"You understand vhat sie have done wrong, ja?" Fritz inquires, leaning back in his seat, hand raising to brush through his greying hair, "Und sie have apologized for your actions, Frau Lorelei."
Vessa imperceptible tightening her hand on the armrest is the only indication of an increase in emotion at the girl's words, "You are not a think Lorelei, you are not an it, you are not just a project. For goodness sake girl you are a part of a family here and are loved as a member of that family you are not a thing. You did something wrong, don't do it again and there, you are forgiven the mistake by the person himself. Learn from the situation and that is all to the good."
The bridge of the IND Cro na Mthar, it was normally calm, orderly. Now though, there was an on and off weeping teleporter, a doctor and one Vessa. There seemed to have been an incident planetside and the fallout of it has the three in something of a tizzy, though it seems to be calming down now.