Prison Blues

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Passengers: Rhys and YOU
Location: Solitary
Date: Jan 16th - 21st
Summary: Rhys committed grand theft auto and is now paying the excruciatingly boring price
Warnings: N/A



[ Rhys hasn't been away from a piece of communication technology longer then 24hrs in probably his entire life, so by the time the 48hr mark hits he's clawing at the walls with boredom. How did people live entire lives without access to an entertainment screen? ]K

Uuuuhg come on! This is torture, human rights abuse!

[ He presses up against the door, calling out to whoever might be out there. ]

At least give me a book or something!

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[omniavincit]

Why didn't you kill me? [ A shrug. ] It's cleaner. Less risky. Or were you trying to. Did you panic?

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No, there was a plan...

[ Kinda. A re-routed plan with a lot of last minute additions and adjustments to make. ]

I didn't kill you because

[ Doesn't have the stomach for it, doesn't have the heart ]

it's not my style. The idea was that by the time you came to I'd be long gone.

[omniavincit]

[ This is where he'd make a point to look Rhys dead in the eye, but since he's over on the cot—William's voice is just flat. ] "Cheap but flashy" isn't really what you want in a plan.

Okay. [ Regrouping. ] Tell me the plan, then tell me where it went wrong.

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Neither is two violent tag-alongs but I'm pretty great at working with the hand I'm dealt.

[ The answer to Williams question is a simple one, really. Things started going south the moment Volk bowed out, to the point the Rhys is pretty pissed at him for bailing. And he could tell William as much but... he thinks about the look on Volks face as he took in the planets view, how he became nearly catatonic and then completely inconsolable and Rhys

he can't do it. It's stupid not to bring Volk in to carry his share of the blame in this mess, but he can't make his mouth form the words. Instead he says ]

The plan was I'd escape the moment we touched down somewhere, find a intergalactic terminal or a fast travel and be halfway back to my system by the time you noticed I was gone. Things started going wrong before we even got off the ship.

[omniavincit]

[ His big plan was for this unknown planet to operate exactly as he'd hoped; for everything to fall miraculously into place. William snorts in annoyance, takes a step back from the bars. ]

You're violent, Rhys. [ He says, voice hard. ] You understand that. You beat me unconscious with a piece of metal.

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[ That gets under his skin a little. Rhys is a lot of things, but violent isn’t one of them. Violence is cheap, is archaic, it’s something he’s above being. Even when it came to… people he once admired, their violence wasn’t something he strived to replicate. ]

I’m not- You weren't even supposed to get hurt, okay? No one was.