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[desequilibre]

I barely speak to them. Though one seems to have been allowed to keep his creature.

Our captors seem to be playing a game.

[ Is that game who can give Athos a hernia the fastest? ]

[mousquetaire]

The hatchlings. You're serious? Erwin's are gone now.

Has it hurt you?

[ That may well be the game, yes. Good thing no one has slept with a queen. ]

[desequilibre]

No. But they can't possibly imagine they are safe.

[ Pls don't say that it makes him feel ill. ]

[mousquetaire]

I'm not sure it would be in the CDC's interest to give us animals that might kill us. That'd be too easy. A way out of our contracts.

[ He's maybe a little bitter. ]

[desequilibre]

And yet they don't seem adverse to putting their workers in danger.

[mousquetaire]

No, they don't.

What are the creatures? How big do they get, do you know?

[desequilibre]

I'm not sure. I would ask one of the instructors but I'm wary of them.

[mousquetaire]

I know what you mean. It's difficult to know who we can trust, aside from each other.

If anyone at all.

[desequilibre]

I wouldn't be so ready to trust anyone. Some might have been tricked like we were. Others may have chosen this life.

Who knows what they would agree to?

[mousquetaire]

FROM: d'artagnan@cdc.org

I've met one like that. A man named Ambrose, who by all other accounts seems an honourable man.

None of them are here for simple reasons, Athos.

[desequilibre]

Then we should be careful.

But what of you? How are you holding up?

[mousquetaire]

[ A few minutes' delay, while he works out how exactly he's supposed to answer that. ]

Holding.

I have to, Athos, we both have to. Nothing's tried to eat me since the wolves. It's progress.

[desequilibre]

Progress only works when you feel it too, d'Artagnan. How are you really?

[mousquetaire]

Honestly? Still hoping that I'll wake up and all of this will be a dream.

Stupid, I know.

[desequilibre]

It isn't. This is a nightmare we are ill-prepared to manage, you're allowed to feel the way you do. But we will manage.

[mousquetaire]

It's not helpful, though. Moping about it won't get either one of us out of here.

Nothing will, by the looks of things. We just have to endure it.

[desequilibre]

I feel as though they're building up to something. I don't believe we'll like what they decide upon.

[mousquetaire]

Destroying worlds, Athos. I can't imagine being thrilled by the idea.

It's everything we ought to stand against. You know that. We both know that.

[desequilibre]

But what can we do? Who will pay the price of our refusal?

[mousquetaire]

If we should refuse?

Then everyone we care about. Aramis. Porthos. Constance, Athos, I can't have that on my head. [ Or his heart. But he won't say that. ] For all their sakes, we have to.

[desequilibre]

But what of the people we're destroying? Fathers, mothers, wives, children. That's the decision we must make.

[mousquetaire]

[ Another delay.

Because no matter what's on his heart, he can't say Athos is wrong. He knows that he's not. ]

We shouldn't talk like this here.

[desequilibre]

Do you wish to meet?

[ TBH d'Artagnan he's been aiming at that since he texted you. He doesn't like this machine. ]

[mousquetaire]

[ These are their machines. Their communicators. They could be watching, they have to be watching.

He'd be watching. ]

At the edge of camp. Where we came in.

[desequilibre]

I'll come now.

[ And he's pretty much leaving immediately, doing his best to ignore Sturmhond's sleeping creature as he escapes. ]