[ A long stretch of quiet follows the question, the elephant in the room. he'd seethed about where he came from to barnes before, when he was fresh out of reliving the worst of it, but to just sit and discuss it, without the fury and the violence and the hate, feels too exposing, in a way. like admitting to something, to a thing you couldn't stop and couldn't resist. his voice does come, eventually, with a sort of hollowness to it. detachment. ]
I don't take well to tricks or routines. But yeah. Living in something close to a glass bowl. Soundproof, bulletproof glass bowl. [ after he shattered the glass once - bulletproof. after he made a lot of people unwilling to traverse that hallway by screaming profanities and the most disturbing bits of narration his mind could come up with through the glass - soundproof. silent and still, that's what they'd wanted. ] There's a bed, some books, a bathroom, and the longest wall's all glass, right out into the corporate hallway. Learned how to lip read pretty quick.
[ all of this present tense, because it isn't what they did, it's what they're still doing. it's the nightmare fortress he's returning to as soon as either the Ingress sends him back, or they get to that planet that's supposed to fix it. ]
Usually it's the clones that do cage fights, the expendable ones. But every now and again one Houses pitch one of their Templates against another's. See which one came out closer to dismembered. Best advertisement places like Hapsburg have, a way to prove their products comes from the best blueprints. [ they'd never let one or the other die, or at least, would try not to. too valuable. but there's a lot of damage you can do to a KN1 geared for combat before it's gone too far. ] But most often for quality testing. Clones always get a fraction of the natural augmentations their Templates have, but they want to get as close as they can.
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I don't take well to tricks or routines. But yeah. Living in something close to a glass bowl. Soundproof, bulletproof glass bowl. [ after he shattered the glass once - bulletproof. after he made a lot of people unwilling to traverse that hallway by screaming profanities and the most disturbing bits of narration his mind could come up with through the glass - soundproof. silent and still, that's what they'd wanted. ] There's a bed, some books, a bathroom, and the longest wall's all glass, right out into the corporate hallway. Learned how to lip read pretty quick.
[ all of this present tense, because it isn't what they did, it's what they're still doing. it's the nightmare fortress he's returning to as soon as either the Ingress sends him back, or they get to that planet that's supposed to fix it. ]
Usually it's the clones that do cage fights, the expendable ones. But every now and again one Houses pitch one of their Templates against another's. See which one came out closer to dismembered. Best advertisement places like Hapsburg have, a way to prove their products comes from the best blueprints. [ they'd never let one or the other die, or at least, would try not to. too valuable. but there's a lot of damage you can do to a KN1 geared for combat before it's gone too far. ] But most often for quality testing. Clones always get a fraction of the natural augmentations their Templates have, but they want to get as close as they can.