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COME ONE, COME ALL, A MARVEL IN OUR MIDST, A GODDESS IN OUR GRASP!
SEE HERE BEFORE YOU THIS LIMITLESS BEING BOUND IN HUMAN FLESH!
SHE DOES NOT BREATHE, SHE DOES NOT SLEEP.
TAKE UP THIS BLADE AND SHE DOES NOT BLEED!
[ But there is a scream, indignant and aching. ]
BRING HER YOUR MOST PONDEROUS QUESTIONS!
HER MIND KNOWS NO BOUNDS!
BUT BEWARE: A GODDESS' WISDOM MAY SHATTER YOUR TINY MIND.

[ And here is a new voice before the curtains are pulled back to reveal her, seething, ]

I i i insects. INSECTS. You_you will suffffffffffffffer f o r ^this.

[ And the velvet curtains part, the woman is there, something strange glowing beneath her skin, making nearly arcance patterns of lights; her usually brown eyes glowing green. The 'goddess' is a defiant one, and has been chained inside her little display case, arms extended to the sides like an angel taking rise, her feet just barely off the ground. She glowers out at the crowd, a cut in her arm gaping light, but the announcer told the truth, there is no blood.

If you stay and watch a little longer, the woman will begin to scream and twitch for a little while, before those lights blink of her eyes and she is challenging, ]

She cannot 'ave my mind! She cannot 'ave it now!

[ It won't last long. ]

W ell, in_sect? Whaaaaaaaaat will^{will^will} you ask of ME ?

[ Her smile is terrible and cruel and furious. ]

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SUB O R D I N A T ED.

[Her chains are bolted to the little wooden hut she's strung up inside. Not so sturdy as it appears, truthfully.]

[He did bring a phaser... not that it would be completely necessary. Wood is easily broken.]

Permanently? I would try to free Delacroix, but not a stranger.

[This isn't strictly true, but.]

[Whoever the woman is, she starts to tug and shriek again. The light eventually blinking out of her eyes. Hello there, Marie. Except...]

Don't. Do not release 'er.

[Chekov steps back, alarmed by the sudden shrieks. But then--]

Delacroix? ...I would be releasing you, as well.

Don't.

[She repeats that harshly.]

If she is free, she will find somewhere else to 'ide. She will spread 'erself. Keep her here.

[Chekov is nothing if not obedient, although he's not happy about it.]

We could go to the laboratory, to find a different way to contain her...

No! No! No--

she iiiis too _fearful, to think of h e rself. she^shen e e d s you.

I believe I was given an order.

[But this would be the second time Chekov leaves Delacroix to an unpleasant situation; he's openly reluctant to not listen to the thing that has a hold of her.]

s h e hassss no authority ^here

[He reaches over just to test a chain. Not that he's freeing her. Not yet, anyway.]

If you were freed, what would you do?

I would _be F R E E.

Yes, but that was not what I asked.

[If this Shodan thing is going to be so obtuse, maybe it would be best to leave it and Delacroix chained up.]

[How about this, Chekov. Marie's voice again,]

We must disassemble zhis wretched place before it 'arms anyone else.

[He's clever enough to have doubts about this. Delacroix wouldn't change her agenda from insisting that she remain chained up to implying that the whole place--and what's holding her captive, presumably--should be torn down.

But it's hard to argue with someone who is voicing your own opinions.]

You should stay here, maybe, and I can try to begin... disassembling.

Edited 2012-10-29 04:19 (UTC)

[Bah, fuck you!]

Iiii can H E L P _you. It will be^be swift and_and me r rrr cile s ssss.

[He's still wavering.]

Delacroix does not trust you.

but she knoooows I_{i_i} can tear this p i ti f u l circus down

Perhaps that is why she does not want you free.

s h e bears nnno _love for them .

Or for you.

[He finally clasps his hands behind his back and takes a step away.]

I am sorry, Delacroix.

[It's not Delacroix sneering at him furiously.]

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