Out of madness and time

[quitestrange]

“How strange.”

The door to her new cell had been open for — Be precise. If you don’t keep time, it will keep you. — four minutes and thirty-two seconds if this device Hatter only wished he could create told the time truthfully.

“Are you coming out, miss?” inquired a guard, one rather more polite than others of his species, it had to be said. After all, she had only just killed a man—unless she had been sedated for quite a long while—and he had cause to be uncivil.

“If I’m to be subjected to trepanning or bloodletting, I should think not,” she decided to reply. If he ran toward red and coppery, it would be best to know before he marked it in her skin.

“Neither of those practices are used on this station, miss. It’s quite safe to come out.”

“Am I still at Moorgate, then?” Curious. She wouldn’t have thought it to have holding cells. A worse thought struck her, provoking a chill of dread. Had Bumby survived? “I’d rather be a gaolbird than a prostitute, thank you very much.”

The man outside sighed and stepped into the light in front of the door.

“You’re no orderly!” Alice cried, quite distraught, to see a man dressed all in black, fitted far too close to his skin. Several gold rings glinted from the cartilage of his ear. “Stay back, brute! I’ll not be booty for the likes of you.”

Comments

[ice_tomeetyou]

Leonard may just be casing the station, one corridor at a time, but he stopped dead when he heard the commotion. Common sense said to stay away, to stay clear at all costs, but when did common sense mean anything to Len? To be fair, he didn't want to be around a person getting so upset on basically a tin can. That led to holes, and holes led to space getting in... and yeah. It was messy.

He poked his head round the corner, seeing a guard peering into what looked like the room Len had came out of not a day earlier. Filing that piece of information away for future reference, he stepped closer, leaning against the wall and addressing the guard casually. "She ain't gonna come out while she thinks you could be a pimp," he pointed out, amused at the whole thing.