[ He catches the look after he says he died, but then, he doesn't expect any different. It's not something you hear people saying all that often. He wouldn't blame her for just deciding he was crazy. But she doesn't question him, or walk away, so that's a good sign.
As she continues to speak, Ben silently amends his understanding of the situation - so she had been to two other places before this one. The first, the one she doesn't name, sounds pretty damn bad. Ben has, for the first time, a feeling of profound gratefulness that he didn't end up somewhere worse. And the second place... ]
Oh, you were at Hadriel? My brother was there for a while.
[ Ben makes a mental note to ask Klaus later if he had met a girl named Poison. He thinks that with a name like that, Klaus would probably remember. ]
He hasn't really wanted to talk about it much, but he showed up pretty injured. We had to go straight to the medbay.
[ Which is really just an oblique way for him to mention that there is a medbay, just in case Poison is injured, but the sort of person who would conceal it to a stranger, in a strange place. Weaknesses and injuries could be exploited, if people want to hurt you. Maybe someone had taught her to be paranoid, the way that Reginald had taught all of them. ]
I don't think we are the first. I think we're... round two. Or three or four or eighty-four. Someone planted those trees, and I doubt it was these incompetent robots. And there are traces. Bullet holes. Stuff that got left behind.
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As she continues to speak, Ben silently amends his understanding of the situation - so she had been to two other places before this one. The first, the one she doesn't name, sounds pretty damn bad. Ben has, for the first time, a feeling of profound gratefulness that he didn't end up somewhere worse. And the second place... ]
Oh, you were at Hadriel? My brother was there for a while.
[ Ben makes a mental note to ask Klaus later if he had met a girl named Poison. He thinks that with a name like that, Klaus would probably remember. ]
He hasn't really wanted to talk about it much, but he showed up pretty injured. We had to go straight to the medbay.
[ Which is really just an oblique way for him to mention that there is a medbay, just in case Poison is injured, but the sort of person who would conceal it to a stranger, in a strange place. Weaknesses and injuries could be exploited, if people want to hurt you. Maybe someone had taught her to be paranoid, the way that Reginald had taught all of them. ]
I don't think we are the first. I think we're... round two. Or three or four or eighty-four. Someone planted those trees, and I doubt it was these incompetent robots. And there are traces. Bullet holes. Stuff that got left behind.