[After the conversations he's had with Fiona, after the way she'd torn into him for not coming clean, there's a part of him (even in spite of Jack's warning) that wants to tell Athena the truth.
There's also a part of him that feels like she'll decapitate him before he can finish scrubbing his conscience clean.]
Come on, you know me. In what universe could I ever run Hyperion?
[ More than ever she feels that she is missing something. Some sort of big revelation, or event. Something. She's felt it since she last spoke to him and Fiona - there is something they aren't telling her.
Athena sits the beginning itch of frustration gnawing at her mind and inhales. ]
No, I don't. Not really. But I know enough to know you're hiding something.
Aside from a lifetime of bad decisions and disappointment all building up towards Hyperion exiling me while a crazy woman kidnaps my friend and tries to hold him hostage so I'll help open the biggest Vault the known universe has ever seen?
The moment she gets the message she is out, gone, previous task left abandoned. It doesn't take long, when you're constantly being chased by skags or bandits or kraggons you develop really good running skills. Only it isn't any of those things chasing her now, just the words Aside from Scooter dying echoing over and over and over.
When Athena makes it to the park you could easily assume she has come with the intention of killing Rhys. Eyes wide with a combination of fear and anger, chest heaving, stance generally imposing. Only upside? She's currently unarmed, not that it would stop her. ]
[He's backing away the second he sees her storming towards him, nails picking nervously at the polished metal of his right arm; there's something inherently terrifying about her when she's livid and switched entirely on, and it doesn't matter where she means to direct it.] I-- he-- he-he uh, there was...
[Deep breaths, Rhys. Deep breaths.] We built a ship to get us to Helios but there was a uh, there was a problem. With the engines. And my dead boss.
He got stuck in it and Fiona detached it and he... [It's so agitated an explanation that it's barely coherent, but eventually Rhys manages to get out an entirely sincere, weighted:] I'm sorry.
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no it doesn't
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Why is every Pandoran allergic to the word success?
This is NORMAL ok.
Normal.
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What could possibly be more interesting, Athena.
Should I tell everyone I own a desk? Maybe a lamp, that's fun right?
People loooove lamps.
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what?
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Is it true?
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[ Right here? No. Right now? Yes. ]
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come on, don't
do this to me right now.
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[After the conversations he's had with Fiona, after the way she'd torn into him for not coming clean, there's a part of him (even in spite of Jack's warning) that wants to tell Athena the truth.
There's also a part of him that feels like she'll decapitate him before he can finish scrubbing his conscience clean.]
Come on, you know me.
In what universe could I ever run Hyperion?
[Good job, hero. Way to keep on lying.]
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Athena sits the beginning itch of frustration gnawing at her mind and inhales. ]
No, I don't. Not really.
But I know enough to know you're hiding something.
[ Denial just wasn't quick enough. ]
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But yes, aside from that.
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Aside from Scooter dying?
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[ Deflection successful, congratulations. ]
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[Not having his neck snapped: more important than giving her a straight answer, clearly.]
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Now
[ Scooter was with Springs, he was with her and now ─
Panic wells up in her throat, constricting like a snake. If something happened to her. ]
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Tons of trees and
grass
I'll
just give me a second and I'll scan it.
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Near the entrance.
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The moment she gets the message she is out, gone, previous task left abandoned. It doesn't take long, when you're constantly being chased by skags or bandits or kraggons you develop really good running skills. Only it isn't any of those things chasing her now, just the words Aside from Scooter dying echoing over and over and over.
When Athena makes it to the park you could easily assume she has come with the intention of killing Rhys. Eyes wide with a combination of fear and anger, chest heaving, stance generally imposing. Only upside? She's currently unarmed, not that it would stop her. ]
Start talking.
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[Deep breaths, Rhys. Deep breaths.] We built a ship to get us to Helios but there was a uh, there was a problem. With the engines. And my dead boss.
He got stuck in it and Fiona detached it and he... [It's so agitated an explanation that it's barely coherent, but eventually Rhys manages to get out an entirely sincere, weighted:] I'm sorry.
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