Part 2 Remember ~Dreamnoblade~

Like a leopard with an antelope...

~I'm not dead:) TW-> mentions of prolonged suffering/playing with prey (conversational, not like actually happening) and injury/injury care ________________________________________________________________________________

"Why even keep us in cells?" Skeppy says, starting to pace along the wall he'd claimed as his space, occasionally kicking said wall with the side of his shoe. "Why not just kill us?"

"I think this is nice." Charlie says with the usual smile in his tone. "It reminds me of- nothing! It's reminds me of nothing! Who said I lived in the ground for thousands of years? You're wrong. You're wrong."

The three others in the room just look at him for a moment, almost finding humor in what he'd just said.

"Plus, we're making friends." Charlie adds.

"We are?" Toua asks, her monotone, 'dead inside', voice adding to her sarcasm.

"Yeah!" Charlie says, missing the un-enthusiasm of the youngling's tone. "We're all friends now." He says, with a smile on his face.

"He likes to play with his prey." Toua says, responding to Skeppy's previously unanswered question.

"That's sick." Niki says with disgust on her tongue

"That's why he does it. Finds joy in other's suffering. He likes to prolong it as long as possible." Toua says.

"Like when the cats play with dead rats?" Skeppy asks, stopping his pacing and leaning his shoulder against the wall.

Toua's ears go back for a second, pressing to her hair before going back to their normal positioning. "Yeah..." She says.

"Oh- I- I wasn't accusing you of... being like that... If I- umm... Came across that way..." Skeppy says, scratching the back of his neck awkwardly.

"'s fine." Toua says, shrugging her shoulders.

"What's a cat?" Charlie asks, looking around the room with an inquisitive smile, hoping one of the three will answer.

"It's a... uh... small, furry, animal... Long tails... Same ears as..." Skeppy says, motioning towards Toua with the last part.

"Oh... I still don't know what that means." Charlie says, still keeping a genuine smile on his face. "But that's fine. Once we get out of this I can see what a cat is."

"If we get out of here." Niki says, still in the perpetual sulk she'd taken up since she got here. Can't blame her though, sulking makes sense in this situation.

Toua nods as Skeppy stares at a place on the floor.

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"Oh where, oh where, has my little Techie gone?" Dark sing-songs, a hint of false sadness to the end of his sentence.

He'd left Techno in the corner of some hallway while he 'spoke' to Eret for a bit.

"Right where you chained me to a wall." Techno says, arms crossed in front of his chest.

"Why the sass, Techie?" Dark asks, walking up to the piglin hybrid and detaching the chain from the wall.

Techno doesn't answer, just stares at the other, not moving from where he leans against the wall.

"Come on, Techie." Dark says, giving a tug to the chain. "I've got things for you to attend to."

"Is it another spider on the wall?" Techno says, snidely, referring to an earlier event where Dark had complained about a spider crawling on the wall because 'he was the only one allowed to do that here'.

"Now, now, Techie... Who has control of the chain here?" Dark indirectly threatens.

Techno rolls his eyes, knowing the creature couldn't see it.

"Here. This is what you must tend to." Dark says, coming to a stop outside of a doorway.

Techno wasn't sure where the doorway led, and he couldn't see either, given the door opened outwardly, and Dark had stopped in a place that meant Techno wasn't able to get close enough to see past the door.

"Go, on." Dark says, giving two small tugs to the chain, pulling Techno closer to himself, and more in the doorframe.

Now, Techno could see the inside of the room. It looked to be some kind of book storage room, not quite a library, but not not a library...

More importantly, on the floor of the dark room, was Eret, huddled against a wall, holding their stomach.

"If you kill him, I kill all of them." Dark sternly whispers in Techno's ear. "Play nice, you two." Dark says, pushing Techno into the room and closing the door.

"God dammit." Eret says, wincing as he adjusts the way he sits, attempting to see Techno better.

"Couldn't have said it better myself." Techno says under his breath, shuffling over to the light in the middle of the room, and pulling the string, lighting up the room.

In the light, it become evident that the former king didn't seem to be bleeding out, but they were definitely in pain.

Techno kneels down beside Eret, placing a hand on the other's shoulder.

"The most of it is on my stomach." Eret grits out, starting to role onto his back.

Techno lets him settle himself.

Eret lifts up his torn shirt, exposing several long cuts along his abdomen.

Techno thinks for a second. "I don't have anything to clean these with..." He says, taking off his shirt and ripping off the sleeves.

"I'll clean them latter, just need them... to stop bleeding." Eret says, gritting his teeth as Techno balls up the main part of the shirt and places it firmly against the cuts.

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~Didn't know how to end that, ngl... anyways... How are y'all? It's been a while:) Also... I'm in my Hannigran arc. Hope you enjoyed:)