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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2015 6:32:58 GMT -5
Tea perked up, turning slightly to the other. The kettle began to whistle, so he started pouring the water over the bags he'd set in the cups. "How are we similar?" he asked curiously.
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Post by Spider on Oct 17, 2015 9:53:10 GMT -5
Aren was caught of guard by the question even though he gave reason to ask. "I-I'm, let me-" he paced around a bit frantically trying to figure out how he was best going to explain this. He turned around and gestured at the brand on his back, trying to get his point across. "I didn't exactly get this myself." He turned around to face Tea again. "I wasn't careful enough one day and that mistake resulted in some of the worst years of my life. It wasn't a puppeteer that got me but he sure was as bad as those people were." he hadn't felt this awful in a while, but at least he wasn't shaking. "So I think I know how you feel."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 17, 2015 17:11:06 GMT -5
Tea winced looking at the intricate mark on his back. He stared for a while, feeling all his negativity. Swallowing hard, he slid the other's cup closer to him. Nodding, he stared at his own hot cup. "I'm sorry." He picked it up carefully, eyes cast down. "You . . . no one deserves that." He wondered vaguely how far the other's master (master?) had gone with him. The mere thought . . . he felt too sick. He had to hold his tea away from his face, the smell was too sickening.
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Post by Spider on Oct 18, 2015 3:44:56 GMT -5
Somewhere he felt relieved by talking about the subject but the awful feeling hadn't entirely dissipated yet. "Exactly. No one deserves to be treated as if they were property or a pet." He picked up the cup and leaned against the counter for a bit, since he felt he was going to fall over otherwise. "One day you're seen as a human and on the next day an angry mob is chasing after you because you accidentally hurt someone. And especially the doctors seem hell-bent on getting to you first." He scoffed and took a sip of his tea, directly feeling a sugar rush kick in.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2015 17:08:13 GMT -5
Tea shook his head. "One day you're battle brothers with someone, the next he's the one who got you strapped down, nails filed, and branded." His hands shook as he realized he had said that aloud. "I'm . . . I'm sorry. You didn't . . . you didn't need to know that." His claws itched as he felt the ghost of what it had been like to get the clipped. Oh how he had bled . . . .
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Post by Spider on Oct 18, 2015 17:30:41 GMT -5
Aren absent-mindedly put down his tea and stirred it while he directed his focus towards Tea again. "It's fine, I said it already didn't I? I'm here anyway so we might as well talk." He tugged at his own clothes and thought about how recent the takeover actually was. Tea had all the reasons to still feel guilt. "What happened to me was years and years go and I still feel misplaced guilt now and then for running away from a man who treated me as his pet, and seared a brand into my back to let people know. No one blames you for feeling that way or having trauma because of what happened."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 18, 2015 18:50:49 GMT -5
Tea nodded, taking a long pull on his piping hot tea. Staring down at the steaming mug, he said, "Thanks." His brow furrowed as he stared longer and harder. He counted the years. "I've been a puppet for . . . almost fifty years. I . . . I don't know how not to live like I'm being controlled." He kept expecting Liam to come out of nowhere and summon him. "I . . . I wish no one here had felt what I felt. Been branded like I was. I'm . . . I'm sorry. I . . . it's great that you understand. I appreciate. But I'm really, really sorry that you do."
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Post by Spider on Oct 19, 2015 4:27:50 GMT -5
"Hmhm." Aren picked up his tea again noticing the sugar sinking to the bottom again and sighed. "Liam is dead, you can start actually living now. 50 years of being controlled by someone like him is awful, most of the cult knows, especially those who were captured." He downed the entirety of his tea and put it back on the counter.
"You know, I never got to kill my former master. I suppose he's been dead for a while, I've been around for eighty years already. But who knows what he did in the meantime, he could have stolen another beings life to add to to his own. He had ways for that." Aren could feel the brand on his back acting up and he knew rubbing it wasn't going to help. He should probably get bandages for that. "So I worry about that often."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2015 8:06:46 GMT -5
Tea shuddered. His biggest fear was that Liam wasn't actually gone. All he really had was Tapi's word that he was gone, and he . . . he trusted her. Still, it was impossible to imagine himself as free. Not yet at least. "I hope the man," monster, "who did this to you is rotting." Tea wished the same of his own master. "If not, I'm sure someone will make him pay. Fate has a way of righting the wrongs of cruel people." Just look at him. He'd lived long past his presumed death and he wore the price of living as he had.
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Post by Spider on Oct 19, 2015 13:46:12 GMT -5
"I hope so too" Aren said, a smile spreading across his face. He lifted his empty teacup in the air as if celebrating "To the people who abused us, may they be rotting, dead and miserable." he thought it might get the conversation back on a happier track, or well, he liked to think the silly gesture might do that. He shouldn't have to know about it and why his brand bleeds, and somewhere he felt guilt. He put his cup down again and shoved it towards the sink. "Did you still have those bandages? I kind of need them again."
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2015 13:59:14 GMT -5
Tea snorted, held up his cup, then drained it and said, "Yeah hang on." Leaving the kitchen temporarily, he retreated back to his room to grab some more for him. As he came back into the kitchen, bandages in hand, he said, "I'm sorry if I've already asked this or if I didn't before but, what do you prefer I call you?"
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Post by Spider on Oct 19, 2015 14:17:18 GMT -5
"Ah, thank you" Aren gratefully took the bandages and calculated how much he would need in a soft mumble. "Aren, Araneus, both is fine with me, it depends whether you'd prefer to be formal or informal." he spaced out for a bit and smiled. "Excuse me, I need to wrap something, I'll be back in a minute." He walked towards the nearest shadow, grabbing a dishcloth on the way there, and he stepped in.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2015 14:19:09 GMT -5
Tea nodded and waited for the other to return. He hoped not through the ceiling again. He really appreciated Aren's company, but did not want to alarm either of them again.
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Post by Spider on Oct 19, 2015 14:31:44 GMT -5
Aren was pretty sure the black stains weren't going to go out of the dishcloth but at least the crisis was averted. It was a rather heavy bleed this time around and he felt relieved that Tea didn't notice it. It didn't take a lot of time to remove the arm wraps and he found his skin had decently recovered, with only a few blemishes here and there. "He's close, isn't he." he mumbled as he let the dirty bandages float away in the shadows and he made his way back to the same shadow he entered because taking a ceiling shadow wouldn't be his wisest option.
"I'm back." he hummed as he crawled out of the shadow again.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2015 18:51:15 GMT -5
Tea stared at his arms, astonished. "Wish u could heal that fast." Then he felt a note of tension on the other. "Is everything alright?"
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