theguidinghand: (Meditating)
Guide ([personal profile] theguidinghand) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2012-09-23 04:17 pm

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CHARACTERS: "Todd"/Guide, James T. Kirk, and all volunteers
LOCATION: Medical Bay
WARNINGS: Extensive description of the Wraith feeding process, and internalized self-loathing. Possible profanity.
SUMMARY: You can never win, you can only break even. With a Wraith, you can't break even - even if you are one.


He's growing used to the fire in his bones, and the thought disgusts him more than he would dare to admit. This repetition of siphoning off a bit of life and then slowly starving again is not the way of a Queen's man. It is short-sighted - but the kine are a short-lived species, as it should only be that they cannot imagine so far into the future. Yet he has agreed to this deal, and their short-sightedness is his own. It will not be long before he starves again, and then more humans will have to sacrifice themselves to him. So this vicious cycle will begin anew.

He kneads the dark vein that winds itself abound his wrist so that it does not swell with enzyme, but he closes his fist as he does so. He can grow used to the fire in his bones, but never shall he look upon a hungry hand without shame.

Guide waits in the medical bay, squinting at the too-bright lights. When he has the strength to do so, he stands; when he hasn't, he rests, sitting as regally as one can in torn leathers.
goldshirt: (big day ✬)

[personal profile] goldshirt 2012-09-27 06:43 pm (UTC)(link)
He sways under the nudge, just enough for his attention to flick back around to the officer at his side. Jim's gaze narrows, and it's an almost playful sense of accusation. He recognizes what this is, that Sulu is trying to distract him, however slightly. He appreciates it, even though the tension hasn't really left his shoulders.

"That gymnastics crap doesn't count, either. I'm pretty sure that's not fencing, I watched the Olympics on Earth."
leaps: (Fencing.)

[personal profile] leaps 2012-09-27 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
There's not a lot Sulu can do. He can't take away what Kirk's feeling, can't get him to leave. But he can soften it, maybe, can blur the edges so it doesn't feel like a sledgehammer.

It's not much, but Sulu does what he can.

"I'm modifying the discipline."