That's not what I meant. Every few weeks, the Barge "makes port" in a different world for a few days, and sometimes, both wardens and inmates are stripped of any supernatural abilities they possess without any prior warning. Not every port is dangerous, but we've been to a few that are, and you're not always guaranteed to have your abilities to fall back on to help you survive.
[He chews at his lip for a moment, wondering how likely it is that Erik will say something, or Alex, whether it comes out carefully or in the heat of the moment. He doesn't want it to be something that's shouted at her, or blurted out against anyone's will, and so long as they're laying it all out on the table... he might as well.] One in particular was especially bad. It was before my spine had been healed, and the ship crash landed on a world that inhabited by a race of hostile aliens called the Vanquish. A vast majority of people on the Barge were kidnapped and tortured, and we had no idea if the people back on the ship would be able to get us out in time. We were there for four days.
["We" meaning he was one of them, and there's a hollowness in his expression and voice that suggests he's actively trying to distance himself from what happened, and doesn't want to talk about the details. It still hurts more than he'd like to admit it does, and while he knows he's always going to have to live with it, he still doesn't want to.]
I'm not going to tell you you should go home, and I'm not telling you this because I want you to be afraid. I want you to be prepared, because God knows I wish someone had warned me about some of this before it happened.
Spam
[He chews at his lip for a moment, wondering how likely it is that Erik will say something, or Alex, whether it comes out carefully or in the heat of the moment. He doesn't want it to be something that's shouted at her, or blurted out against anyone's will, and so long as they're laying it all out on the table... he might as well.] One in particular was especially bad. It was before my spine had been healed, and the ship crash landed on a world that inhabited by a race of hostile aliens called the Vanquish. A vast majority of people on the Barge were kidnapped and tortured, and we had no idea if the people back on the ship would be able to get us out in time. We were there for four days.
["We" meaning he was one of them, and there's a hollowness in his expression and voice that suggests he's actively trying to distance himself from what happened, and doesn't want to talk about the details. It still hurts more than he'd like to admit it does, and while he knows he's always going to have to live with it, he still doesn't want to.]
I'm not going to tell you you should go home, and I'm not telling you this because I want you to be afraid. I want you to be prepared, because God knows I wish someone had warned me about some of this before it happened.