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Tweak says, "i haz a bukket!"

notbrokenyet (notbrokenyet) wrote in mirage_rpg,
@ 2009-01-09 21:49:00

Current mood:	cold
Entry tags:	andy gallagher, arrival, complete, day 28, gray harkness, rose tyler

Gray Arrives
Who: Gray Harkness and OTA
When: Day 28
What: Gray arrives to Mirage
Rating: PG-13 at the most. (I'm hoping)
Status: Complete

Gray could hardly see for the pain from his beating for stealing food as a guard shoved him into his cell for the night. Oh he had known better, he really had, but the little scrap of fish left from his owners' extravagant dinner mixed with not eating anything for nearly three days made him abandon his training for that brief second. What made the beating particularly sting is that he hadn't even gotten the morsel to his mouth. So along with his stomach cramping from hunger his back was now bloody and raw and the offending hand broken.

The young boy curled up on the hard rock floor and cried silently, wondering if anyone would ever come to rescue him. "Mama...Papa...Big Brother....Where are you?" He whispered, closing his eyes and trying to sleep despite the discomfort and pain.

He dreamt of Boeshane and its night time chill, the scent of it ocean air and the sounds of home. It was a bitter sweet dream one that lead to confusion when he woke up to a bitter cold. Gray slowly opened his eyes and looked around in utter surprise and loss as he stared out at a field of snow in front of him and buildings behind him.

Where in the Universe was he?

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ex_stuffofle996
2009-01-15 10:32 am UTC (link)

Rose smiled gently at the young boy before being pulled aside by Andy. Next thing she knew she could hear him in her head, could hear him talking, but he was far from moving his mouth. She nodded as she listened to him, her gaze turning to Gray. After Andy had spoke...well in her head anyway, she stepped closer to Gray, kneeling down so she was looking into his eyes.

"Gray, love. Can you tell me where you were before you came here? Where are you from?"

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brain_ninja
2009-01-15 05:51 pm UTC (link)

Andy had started to pull Rose in the direction of the bathroom. He wanted to tell her everything Gray had told him and ask if she knew how to fix a busted hand...and a broken soul, for that matter, while he was at it, but before he could get her all the way inside, she'd stepped back toward Gray, kneeling down in front of him and was speaking to the little boy.

He waited, bouncing lightly on the balls of his feet with impatience, but he had to give her credit. She sounded a hell of a lot calmer than Andy, himself, felt. Any lingering doubt he had about bringing another person into the situation when Gray was already as skittish and afraid as he was melted away. Rose had been a good choice on Andy's part; he could already tell.

So, he made himself stand still. He forced himself to calm and listen, just letting Rose take the lead from here. Andy wasn't sure how much a help or a hindrance he'd be to her, so he waited a few moments before deciding maybe it was better not to take her away from the little boy. Instead, he spoke to her silently again, because she seemed to have "heard" him the first time.

His hand's broken. Dunno if you got a good look at his back, but it's practically ripped to shreds. I'm no good with first aid, but I used some peroxide to clean out the fresh cuts. Hopefully, you're better at this than I am...

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notbrokenyet
2009-01-15 09:29 pm UTC (link)

Gray looked down at the woman, a touched panicked as past lessons beat inside his head. "I...I'm from Boeshane. Boeshane Peninsula...The people...the people who owned me were from Toropikaru. That's were I was kept..." He looked away. "The slave quarters of the castle was my last location on the planet before coming here."

The boy curled up and buried his face against his knees.

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