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[Almost two weeks spent in Malnosso captivity and what does Gregor have to show for it?
Lots and lots of band-aids, mostly. Also a minor cold that has turned into a chesty cough.
Instead of any great torture, drugs, or whatever he'd been expecting, the Malnosso mostly took DNA samples. Blood samples. Tissue samples. He's from further in Earth-universe's future than most besides Ivan, so maybe his specific point in human evolution was of interest. He understands the "lab rat" metaphor pretty well now. There hadn't been a lot of space in his cell, so he's a little stiff and sore. At least the hallucinations are gone. That had been the worst part--having to assure himself that this was a normal reaction to solitary confinement. He slowly heaves himself to his feet, blindly scrabbling for his journal. Writing is not easy with all his bandaged fingertips, so he speaks, sounding hoarse, slightly congested, and exhausted.]
Ivan. [A pause. ] Buffy. Adele. Whoever's...interested, this is Greg. I'm back. [He coughs a couple of times, fairly hard.] The Malnosso...anyway, I'm fine. It...wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I'm heading home now. Did someone take care of my horse?
[He'll take about fifteen minutes to walk home from his spot in the woods.]
Lots and lots of band-aids, mostly. Also a minor cold that has turned into a chesty cough.
Instead of any great torture, drugs, or whatever he'd been expecting, the Malnosso mostly took DNA samples. Blood samples. Tissue samples. He's from further in Earth-universe's future than most besides Ivan, so maybe his specific point in human evolution was of interest. He understands the "lab rat" metaphor pretty well now. There hadn't been a lot of space in his cell, so he's a little stiff and sore. At least the hallucinations are gone. That had been the worst part--having to assure himself that this was a normal reaction to solitary confinement. He slowly heaves himself to his feet, blindly scrabbling for his journal. Writing is not easy with all his bandaged fingertips, so he speaks, sounding hoarse, slightly congested, and exhausted.]
Ivan. [A pause. ] Buffy. Adele. Whoever's...interested, this is Greg. I'm back. [He coughs a couple of times, fairly hard.] The Malnosso...anyway, I'm fine. It...wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. I'm heading home now. Did someone take care of my horse?
[He'll take about fifteen minutes to walk home from his spot in the woods.]
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Date: 2012-07-30 02:59 am (UTC)From:Why?
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Date: 2012-07-30 03:00 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-07-30 03:04 am (UTC)From:Although it's probably a bad idea for Gregor to be alone right now.]
No reason. You might run into Adele.
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Date: 2012-07-30 03:05 am (UTC)From:[teasing, of course...though it seemed oddly fitting, considering she'd run into him once before]
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Date: 2012-07-30 03:06 am (UTC)From:[Action]
Date: 2012-07-30 03:07 am (UTC)From:[She shrugs and takes the tray along with the box and heads down the hall to brew the tea. Whatever Greg's source of anxiety, she didn't know. She also wouldn't pry.]
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Date: 2012-07-30 03:07 am (UTC)From:[ voice ]
Date: 2012-07-30 03:13 am (UTC)From:[ jovial enough. ] Are you in okay shape?
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Date: 2012-07-30 03:14 am (UTC)From:no subject
Date: 2012-07-30 03:16 am (UTC)From:[ voice ]
Date: 2012-07-30 03:18 am (UTC)From:[An appropriately timed cough.]
[Action]
Date: 2012-07-30 03:36 am (UTC)From:Greg?
[When he doesn't answer she comes back around to the sofa. He's probably exhausted.]
Gregor.
[Action]
Date: 2012-07-30 03:38 am (UTC)From:[He yawns and leans back against the couch.]
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Date: 2012-07-30 11:31 am (UTC)From:[Action]
Date: 2012-07-30 05:37 pm (UTC)From:[The tray's set on the table; she sits next to Greg and after a moment's thought, reaches out to rest the back of her hand against his forehead. It would be horribly inaccurate, but were there anything worse than a simple cough it'd give her a decent idea as to how ill he could be.]
[Action]
Date: 2012-07-31 12:20 am (UTC)From:[He might have the slightest temperature, but it's not necessarily detectable that way.]
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Date: 2012-07-31 12:21 am (UTC)From:[Voice]
Date: 2012-07-31 02:05 am (UTC)From:I hope someone else took care of your horse.
[Voice]
Date: 2012-07-31 02:10 am (UTC)From:[An appropriately timed cough.]
[Action]
Date: 2012-07-31 04:04 am (UTC)From:I spent much of my captivity thinking of new and inventive vulgarities with which to use against my minders. I think that is part of the reason they sent me back with the shift that they did.
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Date: 2012-07-31 10:36 am (UTC)From:[Voice]
Date: 2012-08-01 01:42 am (UTC)From:[And not quite what he'd imagined his emperor saying.]
[Voice]
Date: 2012-08-01 01:50 am (UTC)From:Next time this happens, answer promptly, damn you. For a second I thought they might have grabbed you, too.
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Date: 2012-08-01 02:38 am (UTC)From:At least I was spared that much, although I think they have enough of my DNA to keep producing my heirs for the next seven generations. What shift?
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Date: 2012-08-01 02:41 am (UTC)From: