falke - sam wilson (winterfalcon) wrote in thedisplaced, @ 2018-07-19 20:16:00 |
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Entry tags: | !log/thread, sam wilson / falke (au) |
Who: Falke (mentions Okoye)
Where: New York →
When: Tuesday I think (lol)
What: The start of the Wakanda team's flight to Harare. It only gets more annoying from here.
Warnings: Dissociation etc, kind of standard for him.
It was probably fair to say that Falke hadn't really thought this through. Okoye had said they were traveling by plane, and yeah, he'd thought about it enough to venture an alternative that wouldn't involve being in a plane, but when she'd shut it down he'd just marked the matter as settled and put it away. In retrospect that might have been a mistake. Security was intense, if not in the actual effectiveness than in the sheer focus brought to the task by the guards. In Tumbleweed people usually at least pretended like they weren't paying attention to him, most of the time. He wasn't used to so much scrutiny. It made him pull in on himself, clinging to his cabin bag until Okoye had to take it from him herself to put through the X-ray machine. He let her, even though the loss of it left him feeling vulnerable and bereft and weirdly laid bare. It wasn't an entirely unfamiliar feeling. The big open spaces, the noise, the bustle, the guards who acted as though they knew they were in charge and didn't much care about how anyone felt about it... it wasn't a place where he was needed to make decisions. As long as just enough of his mind was left to do exactly what he was told the rest of him could sink away, make sure he didn't react wrong, try to fight, to defend a self that wasn't really his to begin with. |