un: man's greatest treasure (text)

[reparo]

[ooc: backdated to Sand In Your Eyes (end of)]

Hello, Hermione here, currently writing this from the exit of Ra'esh's temple.

We've found water for the sandworms in a pool, in a cave. We also found a woman in that cave. Her name was Marath, she was alive, and she was tied to the altar and chained. We've set her free - and if anyone has a word of criticism about that decision, by all means, convince me why any living soul should be chained to an altar and left to rot and to thirst and to die. I'll wait.

Anyway, Marath's people are the ones who occupied Uruksithar. She claimed she was left behind because she warned them not to go into the desert. Once freed, Marath ran (rather athletic for someone of her condition if you ask me) and left myself and Vi locked in the temple.

Don't worry, we're out now. Keep an eye out for Marath, if you can. And don't drink the water from the cave if you make it there, it felt...oozy.

[ooc; If you'd like some context, here you go.]

Comments

un: bee

[allforthecause]

[ He waits a while, reading through the replies that are visible to him and taking it all in. It’s clear that there is a lot of history he’s missing, but also a lot of people who apparently can’t see the decent thing to do when it’s in front of them. And with Maarva constantly on his mind since he arrived, he can’t help but want to call it out. ]

You both did the right thing.

That’s no just prison. That’s a death sentence. Torture.



If it goes wrong, if it was a mistake -

Well. We deal with it then.

[ A little more fatally than chains. ]

a good bee

[reparo]

[It's been a difficult half-an-hour-to-an-hour since escaping the temple and reporting the incident, and since then she's felt raked over hot coals and given several sentences in Detention. So reading that, spelled out so simply, makes her shoulders drop with relief.]

It definitely looked like torture - I couldn't think of it in terms of 'what are a few hours more until someone else comes to decide for me'.

And I doubt Vi would've been the waiting kind.

[Not that she's throwing Vi under the bus here, the girl is amazing and can do no wrong. But she did jump in the pool asap to look for the key.]

To be fair, as I was unchaining her I kept looking out for danger, thinking that if this is a mistake, I can deal with it on the spot. Surely someone who just runs instead of immediately attacking isn't all that bad?

Just calling it like he sees it

[allforthecause]

You we’re working with what you had.

If the people who chained her up thought she deserved what they did to her, they should have just killed her. If it was for something - or someone - else? Then they sacrificed her.

What else could you do? Walk by and pretend it hadn’t happened? That you didn’t see it?

You don’t need to defend yourself. These people who think you’re wrong? They weren’t there. You were, you made your decision.

You can’t know what she will do. None of us can. If she turns out worse than the people who imprisoned her, then we will do what they could not. But you gave her a chance to be something other than what they condemned her to be.

[reparo]

Yes - yes, exactly! You've worded my thoughts precisely. I would still keep an eye out for her, or try to find out more about who she was, but I can't imagine just leaving her there and maybe planning to return. There's never a guarantee that we can make our way back here. I've seen it too often - in these travels, I mean.

Fast acting is required.