A conversation amongst real soldiers. Who: Mr. Marrs, Talos Where: Paquin- Marrs' Estate; in a holding room in the underground facility. When: May 11th, around Noon Why: Talos needs to be informed on what’s going to happen with him. Rating? PG-12 Status: Complete, Log
Mr. Marrs was an older distinguishable man, rather tall with slight graying at his temples; although time had treated him rather nicely, and none of his scares from the war shown. He was dressed in a fine rich sort of outfit, nothing of rank or position worn. But that didn’t mean he still wasn’t a General. And even though the independents had lost and the war was many years over, his rank still meant something to many folks in the Verse. The man sat in a chair next to the bed that Talos was laying in. The room was well lit, and he was simply waiting for Talos to wake. The IV was removed a little over an hour ago, and now it was just whenever the Talos would become conscious on his own.
Talos began to shift and slowly open his eyes. he blinked and cleared his eye he stood up from the bed shirtless, unlike the general the stood beside his bed Talos bared many scars on his back his arm his neck he had one distinguishable scare on his chest it was the only scar that looked surgical the other looked like laser wound bullet wounds shrapnel wounds only another solider would recognize such scars.
“O man, where the hell am I a crap I better not be where I think I am I hope I didn’t dream the little women who keeps calling me puppy.” He had temporary amnesia everything would come to him in a few days, his vision was still adjusting he couldn’t see the general next to him. He attempted to get up.
“It might be best that you don’t move around too much at first. Until the drugs completely wear off. And, you’re not exactly where you think you are. Which, I’m going to ask, where that is, Son?” Mr. Marrs asked in a stern voice, he was calm and collected. The man didn't know that Talos was unaware of him. He was curious at whom he thought was calling him Puppy. Couldn’t have possibly been Lula, and that didn’t sound like something Lola would say. Except, made sense that the little woman he meant was Luu, because she was the one that’d brought this trouble home with her.
He heard the man and then replied, “Sir, I believed I was or am in an alliance base undergoing more evaluation and training?” He didn’t know if this was more alliance mind games so he kept it as it should be he wasn’t going to give away any names or otherwise.
The man chuckled slightly, “Believe me son; you aren’t in any sort of Alliance base. This is the furthest thing from it. I don’t know anything about any evaluation or training. You are on Paquin, a border planet. You mentioned a Little Woman; can you tell me what you meant? Who are you were meaning exactly?” The man sat with his arms crossed, understanding that it might take a bit for him to realize what might have happened. Although hoping it wouldn’t take too long, he wanted to get to the bottom of this.
His vision began to clear up he saw the man and felt he could trust him. “The little women is a young girl I met she was all alone in the entertainment district in the city. She was all by herself and I felt concerned for her well being I took her to get something to eat and then I requested a mule and it took up here had I known she was this well off I would have put her in the mule and sent her on her way.” I do not know much about except she was very helpful and caring I really didn’t have anywhere else to go so she offered me shelter here for a while and said something bout I can get work on a ship with a crew” Talos adjusted himself to sit up but when getting a closer look at the man he noticed soothing very familiar.
He nodded; it basically matched what Lola had told both him and her mother. “Well, in that case I must thank you. For you see she is my daughter. We’d been concerned all day about her; although, she is grown, and does know her way around town. I do have to ask how it is that she spoke with you?” He know it had to have been via a databook, since that was the only why she had to express words to others; although, the girls had an odd way of understanding each other. Or rather, Lola had an odd way of understanding her sister. But, then the man didn’t understand it but they’ve always been that way. Kara, or rather as she’s now wishing to be called, Emerald and Lula also had an odd way of understanding each other. He always had suspicions but never vocalized them to anyone else. Not even his wife.
Talos immediately recognized the man General Marrs who led thousands of impendence troops during the war. Talos then sat up right and gave Lula’s father a great deal of respect. “Yes sir, she did communicate through data pad sir” Talos said in a stern military voice as if talking in a way where Talos spoke to any superior. “There is no need for thanks sir the reason why I help you daughter general was because she reminded me of my little sister back on Beetrun” he regretted saying that both side new the devastation that happened in Beetrun. Especially General Marrs
The man noticed the difference in poster, and manner of speaking. He didn’t know why the change, until Talos spoke the word ‘General’, at which it didn’t entirely surprise him. He was surprised though at the respect shown to him by Talos; many Alliance even ex-alliance soldiers had a way of disrespecting officers of the independence, especially after the war had ended and especially those of higher ranking, which undoubtedly included Mr. Marrs.
However any sort of disrespect would have gone incredibly wrong in Talos’ favor, which the man thought was possibly why he acted with such respect. If it was real, which it seemed to be, then General Marrs may learn to respect the man in return, and actually become comfortable with his daughters leaving on the same ship as him.
He remembered what happened at Beetrun, it was horrible for the Independents, and the man guessed if Talos’ family lived their, or at least his sister, then it would have been awful for him too; since nobody made it out of there, except those outside of town at the time, which General Marrs had been. “Can you tell me what happened with you once you got here with Lula?”
Talos new this was a man of high ranking even though Alliance soldiers and those who resigned, mocked and laugh at the independent some of the REAL solider in the Alliance showed nothing but respect and honor as fellow soldiers to the Alliance Talos was one of those select few.
“I am not aware of what happened, Sir, I remember standing in the kitchen and then passing out about an hour ago sir. And then I wake up to find my self here.” He then thought about something and he asked a question. “Sir Permission to ask, Sir. But is there really a ship willing to take me in sir? I would greatly appreciate it. That’s if they have a spot available for a washed up Merc ... Sir?”
The man nodded, “Ahh, well it’s been a little longer than an hour. You’ve been out a little over two days or so, it’s a bit past noon of the eleventh; although we did have you on sedatives, to keep you from waking up and harming yourself or somebody else. After you passed out and seized in the kitchen you were taken to a guest room, where you then woke in a sort of fit. You broke down a door and a bit of a wall. I was told you were having a nightmare of some sort, along with a form of sleep walking. You passed out on your own again, and then I had you taken here and monitored.” He explained in a honest fashion.
“It was my call to keep you out since we weren’t sure what was wrong with you; for your own safety and others. However, now there is a ship and a crew that’s willing to help out. Help figure out what caused you to pass out and seize, to find out how to fix whatever is wrong; a lady captain who is doing it as a favor to my family. She is in fact of a ship that would be willing to hire you on; she mentioned that she could use your expertise. And her security officer in general could benefit, they’re hiring crew on their stop here and another hand would be mighty useful. The ship is Lorrayna Phoenix, Captained by Emerald Storm. I’m sure she’ll have a whole list of things she’ll want to tell you herself. But, I should say to you know. That she demands loyalty from all her crew, new and old. They do salvage jobs, though the manner in which they acquire such salvage wouldn’t always be approved by the Alliance. And since you were alliance at one point in time, she’d have to be certain of your loyalty to her, and not them. My daughters shall be joining you on the ship, so if any harm were to come to them, Emerald, or the crew in general due to you personally, I’d have to personally deal with it. I know neither of us wants that. Plus, Emerald, while she’s a brilliant devoted captain, she’d make an awful enemy. If you know what I mean?” He explained, wanting the man to understand things the why they are; as a man, a father, and sort of a major associate to the ship itself.
“And since she’ll be helping you personally, beyond any work opportunity that she plans to offer you. I do imagine you’d owe her your life, in simplest of terms. Since things don’t seem to be going so entirely good for you at the moment, if I may say, Son.” He told him in a direct to the point tone. Knowing that he didn’t need to threaten the other man, that he was smart enough to understand all the things he was saying to him.
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[info]trouble_magnet 2008-04-24 04:35 am (local) (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select Talos heard everything that was told to him he understood very well and he will accept responsibility for both sisters. He had nothing to lose no jobs where coming in from the alliance not even his usually clients so he will take any job he could. The sedatives where whereing off the alliance took everything away from talos and he gave everything to them he was there most loyal solider. He will make a decision now that so ling as the alliance remains corrupt who o would be loyal to them no more. Talos stood up
“Sir, I no longer serve the alliance I did my time was loyal to them gave them everything and in return they took my family obliterated my home and conducted a honor less war. I may have fought against you, and one time your troops where my enemy’s but I never showed them any disrespect. With that said you have my word that your daughters will be safe and I have no allegiance to this corrupt government in anyway.i thank you for helping a complete stranger I know that if you wanted to you could have kicked me out and I would be dead by now. I thank you sir.”
He then began to slowly walke to his stuff lying in the corner he saw his alliance nova squad jacket on the floor and his ident card on the bag as if someone was looking for it he looked back at general mars
“to whom and where do report to sir? And by the way my name is Talos markhan sergeant in the federation alliance army and nova squad special forces”
He said with a salute
“I assume I should introduce my self to someone of your ranking as we had no been properly introduced.”
Then went shuffling through his bags to gather his bearings. (Reply to this)(Thread)
[info]burnthelandmods 2008-04-24 01:27 pm (local) (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select The man believed what Talos said about not showing any disrespect to his men, despite the circumstances Mr. Marrs trusted Talos, it was a feeling he got off the man, even though he was mixed in with the Alliance; that hadn’t stopped the old General before from trusting strangers. He could be completely wrong, but then he was only human. However he felt he’d be able to sleep better with his daughters off in-the-black with this man. Oh and plus there was the fact he knew his nephew Johannes would keep a watchful protecting eye on them both.
He simply nodded at the ‘thank you’; the man was sort of like a Shepard of lost sheep. He’d every once in a while take somebody in, and help them in any manner possible. It’s what God would do, and he felt that it was the only right thing to do. To help those that aren’t as well off as he, unlike the Alliance who fails to do what they promise for the people. Though his family will always be his first concern, and he has a very large family. But that didn’t just include blood relatives now did it.
He stood, returned the man with a salute. “Jonathan Marrs; General in the Independent Army at the time of War. Although now it’s just Mr. Marrs or, Sir does just fine.” He nodded his head slightly. He recognized the Nova Squadron, though he didn’t say so was irrelevant now. Also was all his list of projects he headed up personally, though Talos would have recognized a few; but chances were he may have known a few, or at least by word of mouth.
“I can lead you back to the main section of the house, and then from there Lula was planning on taking you to the ship at the docks. Once there I’m sure Emerald will want to speak with you further.” He told Talos as he headed towards the door. (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread)
[info]trouble_magnet 2008-04-24 01:45 pm (local) (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select Talos put his shirt on and his jacket he sat on the bed and put on his alliances issued steel toe combat military boots on. As he tied them general marrs. Waited for talos just out the doorway. Talos put on his jacket and his gun holster he then checked if it was a full clip and put his silver pistol back in the holster and then walked over to his bags and walked out with the general and began to fallow him to the main house (Reply to this)(Parent) (Thread)
[info]burnthelandmods 2008-04-24 02:34 pm (local) (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select The man leads Talos out the room, shutting the door once he has gathered all his things. The door locks on its own. The small area has about five doors on each side of the hall; at each end of the hall is a door, one is a large heavy steel door the other was a smaller simpler door. Talos was lead to the larger door, which Mr. Marrs has to unlock with a code; a small electronic pad sits on the wall next to the door on the right.
Taken out the door it opens into a very large hallway leading right and left. The man turns left, and continues walking straight. A few large doors line the hall about every 500 feet or so, all the same size as the one Talos was let out of. The walk is about half a mile in walking distance; the walk is has an uphill slant without any reading equipment though it’s hard to tell how far down the tunnel started. The man walks in silence, saying nothing at all. Finally the tunnel/hallway ends with metal double doors. It has a sort of shine to it that most other known metal doesn’t. Another keypad is next to the right door, along with what seems to be a intercom system of some sort. The man unlocks the door, and waits for Talos to come in before locking it back with another code, on a matching pad on the other side of the doors. The doors themselves don’t seem to be that very thick, when inspected briefly as Talos passes threw them.
After stepping further into the room, a paneling of wall shifts and maneuvers over the double doors, once the piece is in place, you can’t see any sign of anything besides a wall. The room is a larger wine cellar; many rakes of bottles line the other walls and three doors and a staircase on the opposite side of the room. Talos is lead to the staircase, once out of ten feet from the false wall, an empty rack that apparently is rigged with a track in the floor; it maneuvers from in font of another rack and over in front of the wall that had been the entrance to the long corridor.
From their Talos is taken up into the large house, whose similarity to an old Earth-that-Was southern plantation home is not only similar in its outside appearance but the interior too. Besides the bits of technology that wouldn’t have been found there, but everything from the furniture to the architecture, to the house hands that pass every so often, who say their good afternoons to the man of the house. (Reply to this)(Parent)