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If Sounsyy's anger had cooled any after raising her rifle, Ryanti's retort brought it bubbling right back up to the surface. She met his aggressive stance unflinching, her own frame now seething, her teeth gritted as she growled at him. Her rifle lowered instinctively, but the urge to blow out one of the Miqo'te's kneecaps was powerful.
"Yeh made it to the top of the rope safe and then yeh left meh!! Yeh heard some gods-damned noise and yeh just had to go check it out on yer own! And in the time it took yeh somethin' could've gotten me in the dark cause I had no one to watch meh back while I climbed! The only childish thin' I see 'ere is yer damn need to be a hero. And yeh got a damn sight o' nerve talkin' to meh about respect. Or was that swivin' stunt yeh pulled with Sixteen what yeh call keepin' yer head down and respectin' idiotic decisions?"
Her eyes narrowed as she called him out on his tantrum. In Sounsyy's limited experience of the man, he really was just a child. Though, she did view many people in this manner - undoubtedly a product of her being thrust into an early adulthood. But she had made many hundreds of mistakes as a youth trying to be an adult and it was a danger she attributed to Ryanti.
The two stood there in opposition for another moment before Sounsyy gave up their staring contest and turned her back on Ryanti. She scanned the catwalk behind them with her torchlight, while she composed herself and suffocated the anger still welling up in her throat.
"Lead," she said flatly, still facing away from him, "We've lingered here too long."
She could feel Ryanti's eyes boring holes into her neckline for a moment before she heard the unmistakable grunts and grating of him squeezing through the half-closed doorway.
"I brought you down here for many reasons, and some of them include the fact that I know you can survive and take care of yourself better than anyone else on that ship. You can handle it. I know you can," she heard him say as he pulled his way to the other side. If yeh don't get me killed, she thought in response but said nothing aloud. She slid her backpack through the opening first and followed after Ryanti, coming out on the other side into a long hallway. She scooped up her backpack and replaced it over her shoulder.
"It's like... you're afraid of the dark or something."
Sounsyy gave him a withering glare as she moved past the Miqo'te and went over to the first pair of doors on the right. The first was sealed tightly, and Sounsyy's torchlight shimmered through the dust, seemingly giving the door a strange texture. Or perhaps that was just the door.
"What were yer first clue," she affirmed rhetorically. She kept her eyes averted from Ryanti and sidestepped over to the second door of the pair - this one had been broken open. She could not be sure whether by time or by something unnatural. She shone her light in on the small room, but the jagged shreds of the door cast odd shadows against the back wall. It made her spine tingle. She turned her back on the doorway and her torchlight shown on Ryanti.
"Scared of a lot of shite, Seventy-seven. Sure yeh are too. Right now I'm scared of this hallway... and what used to be in them rooms."
"Yeh made it to the top of the rope safe and then yeh left meh!! Yeh heard some gods-damned noise and yeh just had to go check it out on yer own! And in the time it took yeh somethin' could've gotten me in the dark cause I had no one to watch meh back while I climbed! The only childish thin' I see 'ere is yer damn need to be a hero. And yeh got a damn sight o' nerve talkin' to meh about respect. Or was that swivin' stunt yeh pulled with Sixteen what yeh call keepin' yer head down and respectin' idiotic decisions?"
Her eyes narrowed as she called him out on his tantrum. In Sounsyy's limited experience of the man, he really was just a child. Though, she did view many people in this manner - undoubtedly a product of her being thrust into an early adulthood. But she had made many hundreds of mistakes as a youth trying to be an adult and it was a danger she attributed to Ryanti.
The two stood there in opposition for another moment before Sounsyy gave up their staring contest and turned her back on Ryanti. She scanned the catwalk behind them with her torchlight, while she composed herself and suffocated the anger still welling up in her throat.
"Lead," she said flatly, still facing away from him, "We've lingered here too long."
She could feel Ryanti's eyes boring holes into her neckline for a moment before she heard the unmistakable grunts and grating of him squeezing through the half-closed doorway.
"I brought you down here for many reasons, and some of them include the fact that I know you can survive and take care of yourself better than anyone else on that ship. You can handle it. I know you can," she heard him say as he pulled his way to the other side. If yeh don't get me killed, she thought in response but said nothing aloud. She slid her backpack through the opening first and followed after Ryanti, coming out on the other side into a long hallway. She scooped up her backpack and replaced it over her shoulder.
"It's like... you're afraid of the dark or something."
Sounsyy gave him a withering glare as she moved past the Miqo'te and went over to the first pair of doors on the right. The first was sealed tightly, and Sounsyy's torchlight shimmered through the dust, seemingly giving the door a strange texture. Or perhaps that was just the door.
"What were yer first clue," she affirmed rhetorically. She kept her eyes averted from Ryanti and sidestepped over to the second door of the pair - this one had been broken open. She could not be sure whether by time or by something unnatural. She shone her light in on the small room, but the jagged shreds of the door cast odd shadows against the back wall. It made her spine tingle. She turned her back on the doorway and her torchlight shown on Ryanti.
"Scared of a lot of shite, Seventy-seven. Sure yeh are too. Right now I'm scared of this hallway... and what used to be in them rooms."