Once out of the room, Riola peeked back to make sure for some reason the Ogrunu wasn't out of his bed and chasing him down, before taking his steps just a bit slower. After all, the man looked like something out of a war film, and the fact he was still capable of crushing them with one functioning arm and his clinging to life? Riola wouldn't have been surprised if he was capable of jumping up and murdering them both. "People don't get their throats crushed by a metal man and jump around saying their fine, normally. Loco-ass hermano." Riola said with a small chuckle, before looking down the hall of the ship and shrugging his own shoulder. "She'll probably be jealous Shaldag got to leave a lasting mark on you instead of her. Providing she hasn't already. Don't tell me or show me. Don't wanna know what you two do in the bedroom, comprende?" Riola moved over to one of the walls along the corridor and let Mendez take hold of them, before Riola itched his forehead, looking towards Mendez with a rather exhausted look.
"At best, he's coming out with a newly found outlook on how terrible the chicas running the planet are. At worst? He murders every redhead he sees from now on. I'm banking on the fact the Ogrunu is just in shock and delirious. Don't know how Hyun is gonna handle it. Those two seem pretty fucking close." He added, brushing his hands through his hair and then kicking at the ground. "You ever get the feeling like all these people get hurt because of us? I mean, it seems like I get into trouble just for being able to piss standing up sometimes..."
The three in the medbay had some time to themselves, and Hyun seemed to look back and forth between the two, her age finally setting in and the Chuzizian looking something more akin to a mother eyeing her two sick, wounded children; her maternal glances finally stopping as she locked bright eyes onto Ashi and moved to loom over her for the time being. "Well, at least we made it. And the pools are the next stop. Just gotta sit here in pain for a little bit, right? Nothing too bad." Hyun sighed, chuckling and slowly shaking her head, before planting a small, gentle kiss on the Daoweian's forehead, letting cold, slightly tingling lips linger there for as long as she could get away with, and then pulling away. "You should consider getting some rest, Ashi. You look tired as fuck, and I can stay up and keep tabs on Shaldag for now." She said, crossing her arms and looking over towards the Ogrunu - Hyun bringing up her hand and chewing on her fingernails.
"You take some assholes for granted, and you know you do, and now you end up watching them fight for their life. If he bites the fucking bullet, I'm all alone. Save you of course, but it's different with him. I guess...Shal's like a fuckin' security blanket sometimes." Hyun mused outloud, squatting and pressing herself against Ashi's cot. "...I don't want him to die. I don't want you two to die. This gang shit is over if we can get away clean from this all."
"I mean, I wouldn't poison you lot, if that's what you're thinking. I just. Fuck. Well, I don't really know how exactly to say what I mean." Nokra said, forcing out a nervous chuckle while he itched both of his ears with each hand; his legs kicking like a child's. Small talk seemed to be what was coming next between the two, and Nokra sucked his teeth. Chatting about mundane things was something he never really...Learned? If one could say they learned how to banter? The most the Felis had ever gotten in lieu of a conversation with someone who wasn't a slave was orders and drills on how to put something sharp into a point in a humanoid's body to render them inert.
The Terskix seemed to be silent and nodded slowly, understandably, at each sentence the Felis had been producing. Bomb-making was delicate work. The warrior-caste could testify to that every round of training when they were fed the limbs of those who had failed miserably in their duties to learning to serve the Empire, and Atrix blinked each set slowly, the previous set of eyes opening up only when the other set after was closed. "You keep talking about killing other people. And meeting Vail. Are you aware of what a bomb does? Not how it works. Anyone can explain what a bomb's purpose is for. I'm talking about the aftermath. They aren't subtle. They don't care about who is in the way. As you other humanoids like to call it. Civilians, you will be taking their lives too if it goes right. I simply ask because for someone who is so longing to see Vail. You do not see the fact that you will be doing to others what the Edensians did to you." Atrix warned, before shrugging a shoulder and clicking her mandibles, and chuckling to herself. "Don't fight for me. I am strong enough on my own. Rosalind is strong. Everyone here is strong. Fight for yourself mostly. Not to sound rude. But if you try and help us all, you'll get yourself killed. People need to stand for themselves."
Coffee in hand, Nokra took his mug and slurped it down in nearly one whole gulp, ignoring the burn and fighting as hard as he could to avoid sputtering and spitting out the hot liquid, before sighing and twitching his tail back and force like a furious little pendelum. "Whoa man. This is gonna keep me up. My tail's already going a mile a minute." He mentioned, offering Fikri a small nod in thanks, and keeping himself tucked in as hard as he could into his own seat when he noticed the Terskix had followed as well. "How did you guys find the spider-girl?" He finally blurted out, Atrix blinking a few times at the sudden mention of herself; Atrix moving over to shadow the Felis in his seat from behind.
"Rosalind hired me to eat people who ask too many irritating questions."
"O-oh..." Nokra muttered, shirking back as the tips of fur on his ears stood on end; bravery only returning when Magali entered the cockpit - Nokra sitting back up and looking at the blood-soaked Felis, and folding his ears back. Whatever hell the Ogrunu went through was splattered all over Magali, and Nokra fought the nearly irresistable urge to run over and try and clean her up.
Atrix looked at the blood-soaked Magali - A lower limb reaching out and swiping a finger across one of her crimson-coated cheeks, the Terskix planting the red on her tongue and sucking her finger. That's what an Ogrunu tasted like. Terrible.
"I hope we're fast enough." Atrix replied solemnly.
"I just want to come home," said the Astronaut.
"So come home," said Ground Control.
"ï¼³ï½ ï½ƒï½ï½ï½… hï½ï½ï½…," said the Voice from the Stars.
“And he goes around killing people?†said Mort.
He shook his head. “There’s no justice.â€
Death sighed.
NO, he said,...
THERE'S JUST ME.