23rd Übersetzung/Commentlog!

[dormant_beast]

[Guess who is prowling the halls again?

If you guessed Anna, you'd be right.

Problem is, Anna the Tiger looks...a little different. Instead of her normal tones of gold, brown, black, and white, she's tinged a musky purple streaked with visible lines of a sick, grey color. Her canines have lengthened, and the tigers body has shifted significantly in

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[ecopiracy]

[Phoenix is on his way to find something to eat, but he hasn't yet reached the buffet. He's humming softly to himself, in a relatively good mood.

Hmm. Something with meat sounds good.]

[dormant_beast]

[Her senses are heightened - the carpet is a little dirty from the days traffic, the scent of dirt, flowers, fuel are all magnified and invade her nose scent by scent. There's the occasional sneeze or maybe a cough from an opened door, and then-

A hum. Someone is humming, someone is near. She presses herself to the wall, warring for control as she slips ever closer, claws raking heedlessly across the carpet as she moves. She rounds to corner, and comes face to face with Phoenix.]

[ecopiracy]

[The last thing Phoenix was expecting here was to be confronted by a cat like that. He freezes when he sees the creature, eyes widening. His hand automatically goes to his hip - no gun. But even a year on this ship hasn't broken him of the habit of grabbing for his weapon in the face of a threat.

There is something vaguely familiar about the cat, but the feeling is dwarfed by the alarms going off in his head. Warily, he backs up a step.]

[dormant_beast]

[The second Anna sees that it's Phoenix she immediately withdraws and she presses herself instinctively against the opposite wall across from him. Self control regained, her ears flatten back and she gives a low whimper, tail flicking behind her in distress.

Do you recognize those eyes, Phoenix? They're still the same, for now.]

[solittleeffort]

[Maia has been spending a good portion of her time with Anna, these days. The girl is quiet, well-behaved, obedient - everything Maia likes in a test subject, really - and best of all, her schedule wasn't very busy at all. This allowed Maia more time to see Anna and pump her body full of Dark Eco.

In an ideal situation, Maia would prefer to keep Anna's treatment as close to her own; slow and steady, with gradual development over the years. However, slow and stead simply wouldn't do in a place like this! If Maia wants results, then she'll get them any way she can. And really, she's been using the quickest method she can think of: seeing Anna with increased frequency and upping the strength of the treatment with each visit.

Maia had been floating around the ship before sensing a nearby presence of Dark Eco and, inevitably, finding Anna. She says nothing, taking a moment to look at the changes and admire her work.[

[dormant_beast]

[The little 'sessions' Anna has been treated to are growing old - each one is more painful than the last, and on more than one occasion she's wound up backi n her room, vomiting for half the night. Her body, while accepting all manner of whatever it is Maia is pumping into her, isn't pleased with the sudden pumping of foreign anomolies into it.

Her normal, human form hasn't seen many changes. Sure, she's been more withdrawn and when she's run across people in the past few days (at least since the shadow event), she's been snappish, surly, and angry - not at all like her normally docile self.

But now she sees Maia. Maia, who's made her look like moer of a FREAK than she already is, Maia who was supposed to be HELPING but seemed to be instead HARMING. Her claws dig into the carpet, and Maia gets a loud, menacing snarl.]

[solittleeffort]

[The good thing about being able to fly, is that it's always easy to keep a safe distance between oneself and something that can kill you. This is no exception.]

Oh, come now, Anna. Don't use that tone with me. [Maia can't talk to animals, but it isn't as if it's very hard to determine the emotion behind a snarl.]

I made sure that you knew what you were getting into after you volunteered. [No, Maia made sure to be as vague as possible, but either way, it didn't matter. There was no way Anna would have been able to get out of it.] You should have thought more about what might happen before you volunteered.

[Hi, Anna. This is Maia saying it's your own damn fault for letting her take advantage of you.]

[dormant_beast]

[Anna has been on edge for days, and she's close to snapping completely - if it's due to what Maia's been doing to her or her own nerves, she can't be sure.

What she is sure of is that that thin level of self control is very nearly shredded, and Maia is NOT HELPING.

If Anna could talk like this, there would be far more words to be exchanged. She can't, so instead, she just advances closer.]