[Three years ago, Rise hadn't believed in aliens.]
[It's hard to believe that she ever didn't now.]
[Greys are sick motherfuckers, as Dave put it. He's in the cell next to hers, and they talk whenever they aren't being monitored. Across from them are some kind of kangaroo beasts that seem to have language, and are actually pretty cute, but Rise can't understand them any better than she can the little sentient bird in the cage on her other side. From the looks of the hallway, Rise is deliriously glad that she has Dave next to her. He speaks english, which isn't her best language, but she speaks enough that she's picking it up quickly.]
[So when she's lead by a pair of those evil aliens with the sunken black eyes and frog legs that keep them here into the cell again, she doesn't expect the fish creature to understand her when she talks to him. She knows it's a him.]
[It would defeat the purpose if it wasn't.]
[They're trying to crossbreed aliens. She doesn't know why, and Dave's theories are getting more and more morbid the longer they're here, but she doesn't really believe any of them. This is someone new, so she supposes they got through with the last project. She's glad. Her last mating partner had been some kind of lizard thing with sad eyes that cried when they forced them. Rise still feels sick, like she corrupted something innocent, even if the Greys'd literally held the two of them down.]
[She just has to hope that this one won't hurt her, cry, or anything else horrible that she hasn't encountered yet. It's her fourth species and she's getting damn numb to it. Usually, she closes her eyes and pulls up her persona, woefully unable to do anything helpful in a fight, and thinks of home.]
[She thinks she'll think about Souji today. The idea of him gets her through the worst days. Just picturing his face in her head gives her the energy to get off the floor. They won't force anything this time, it's just a meeting, some sick introduction, and Rise has to size up this guy.]
Hello?
[She's tentative and quiet, not very hopeful at all.]
3 > 3
[It's hard to believe that she ever didn't now.]
[Greys are sick motherfuckers, as Dave put it. He's in the cell next to hers, and they talk whenever they aren't being monitored. Across from them are some kind of kangaroo beasts that seem to have language, and are actually pretty cute, but Rise can't understand them any better than she can the little sentient bird in the cage on her other side. From the looks of the hallway, Rise is deliriously glad that she has Dave next to her. He speaks english, which isn't her best language, but she speaks enough that she's picking it up quickly.]
[So when she's lead by a pair of those evil aliens with the sunken black eyes and frog legs that keep them here into the cell again, she doesn't expect the fish creature to understand her when she talks to him. She knows it's a him.]
[It would defeat the purpose if it wasn't.]
[They're trying to crossbreed aliens. She doesn't know why, and Dave's theories are getting more and more morbid the longer they're here, but she doesn't really believe any of them. This is someone new, so she supposes they got through with the last project. She's glad. Her last mating partner had been some kind of lizard thing with sad eyes that cried when they forced them. Rise still feels sick, like she corrupted something innocent, even if the Greys'd literally held the two of them down.]
[She just has to hope that this one won't hurt her, cry, or anything else horrible that she hasn't encountered yet. It's her fourth species and she's getting damn numb to it. Usually, she closes her eyes and pulls up her persona, woefully unable to do anything helpful in a fight, and thinks of home.]
[She thinks she'll think about Souji today. The idea of him gets her through the worst days. Just picturing his face in her head gives her the energy to get off the floor. They won't force anything this time, it's just a meeting, some sick introduction, and Rise has to size up this guy.]
Hello?
[She's tentative and quiet, not very hopeful at all.]