12th Sending [Commentlog Talia/Kevas/Logan/Mimmi shenanigans to befall in this post.

[thequeensown]

[Talia was unimpressed to wake this morning and find a pair or handcuffs secured around her left wrist. She was momentarily pleased to see a key sitting on the desk with her journal, but a brief examination had proved the key did not match the lock and she was no further ahead than she had been at the beginning.

However, the handcuffs are not her first concern upon waking that morning. No, that would be the fact that she hasn't seen her husband in nearly two days and the only thing she is picking up from him is a horrible headache...and anger... quite a lot of anger.

She lowers her shields and goes off to find him, sighing softly to herself.]

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[drinkuntilidie.livejournal.com]

[Kevas isn't that hard to find. In fact he's not hiding at all. He's sitting in front of his makeshift burial site just staring at the graves. One of them has been pulled out and tossed aside but the others stand untouched.

If he notices her approach he doesn't show. For once he's not brimming with rage either. His hands are shaking, he's sweating and terribly pale, and his feels like a kodo just stomped on it, but he's irrationally furious at everything around him. He just sits by the grave-markers in silence.]

[thequeensown]

[It doesn't take too long to find him, as he's not making much of an effort to hide himself at the present time. She finds him quickly enough, seeing him just ahead of her at the graves he'd set up shortly after their arrival.]

Oh, Kevas...

[It's softly voiced, but she knows he'll hear her even if he's doing little to show it just now. She's moving up along side of him now and happens to catch sight of some dried blood along his forehead. Her eyes widen and her stomach drops just a bit. Her left hand rises to touch his shoulder...]

Kevas, what happe-

[And she falls silent as the open end of the cuffs around her wrist bump against Kevas' right wrist and click shut. Eyes widening slightly, she hadn't done anything that would make it do so.]

[drinkuntilidie.livejournal.com]

[Kevas remains perfectly silent the entire time. It's not until the handcuffs clamp around his wrist that he finally reacts.]

What da hell?

[He looks from Talia to the handcuffs in confusion. Then he notices another pair of handcuffs securely clamped around his left wrist. When did that get there and how did he not notice it?

Kevas rises to his feet, angry steadily growing again. This is not a time when he wants to be fucked with.]

Da hell be goin' on?

[He lets Talia's previous question go unanswered.]

[thequeensown]

[Kevas rising to his feet means Talia is rising from her own crouch to prevent her arm bending at a weird an uncomfortable angle. She is making no show of hiding her own confusion at their current predicament.

Shaking her head, she frowns.]

I don't know... I woke with the damned thing on my wrist and this...

[She holds up her key to show him, but already knew it wouldn't work on her own pair; she'd tried that morning.]

It doesn't unlock my own, however... let me see your other wrist...

[She gestures to his free wrist and the pair of cuffs dangling from it. It's only a moment to discover that her key does little good on his lock, either.]

Threkshet...

[It might be another tongue, but the meaning would be about the same in any tongue with the force and tone she says it in. She looks up at her husband, brows rising as she tries to keep him as calm as possible in the face of his sparking anger.]

Any suggestions, my heart?

[drinkuntilidie.livejournal.com]

[Kevas looks down at the shackles and growls, but then stops. He knows he's getting angry, far too angry, and remembering what he did last time he got this angry is enough to force him to put on the brakes. That doesn't mean he looks happy about any of this though.

He offers her his wrist but he already knows it won't work. It's too simple and nothing is every simple.]

If dis be anytin' like what dey put us t'roo on da boat den notin' easy like dat gonna be da ansah.

[Kevas searches his pockets and finds the key that he's been given.]

Dey gave us dese fuh a reason. Someone out dere gotta be havin' da one to unlock dese.

[thequeensown]

[Talia would be utterly foolish to not pick up on the mounting anger, but before she even has need to brush her mind against his, Kevas reigns it in sharply.

She was not looking forward to Kevas' anger, but was ready to face it if it came up. She'd rather it be her than just about anyone else, even if his temper was quite the force.

She looks at the key he pulls from his pocket and purses her lips.]

I think it is safe to presume that this happened to most of the others here, then... With any luck it will not last long, but we should expect and plan that it might.

[She gives him a half smile in light of the mood.]

I could certainly be attached to someone worse, so at least there is that.

[drinkuntilidie.livejournal.com]

[Right now Kevas is doing his best to keep himself under control. He can't risk another outburst after what happened last time, especially with Talia right here with him. If he did the same thing to her that he did to Vie he wouldn't be able to forgive himself. He already can't forgive himself. For now he just needs to focus on something else, like his pounding head, or the search for the key, or anything as long as it's not anger.

He tucks his key back into his pocket for safekeeping. It might be useless now but it could come in handy later.]

Den I say we start hittin' mons up fuh keys and try to get outta dis mess.

[He smiles nervously back at Talia.]

Yeah...let's uh, let's go.

[For her sake he needs to find her key as soon as possible and then get the hell away.]