Tseth sighs as Salmook backs away. “I’m sorry I touched you, I won’t do it again. Salmook is your name? I’m Tseth.” He watches as Blaze takes down the woman, and then her and Francis’s conversation. “Maybe we should find out what we’re doing here before we kill all of them.”
The man glares at Blaze, but after seeing the other one get taken out, puts his tranq pen away.
Daphne keeps herself wedged in the corner, visibly overwhelmed. “Can we not immediately start fighting each other-?”
Blaze nods politely when the man puts his pen away.
"Good choice, sir." she says, turning to Tseth.
"Nobody is dead. Yet. Her windpipe-" she gestures to possibly dead woman. "-has been crushed, so maybe she'll die."
(I wonder, do the people who sent the letters know Blaze is blind? Hell, does anyone know?)
(I’m pretty sure there’s a few people who know, considering the letter was in Braille- but it’s definitely hard to tell if you don’t know 💀)
(She does a pretty good job of seeming like she isn’t but the cloudy eyes are a hint at the least)
(I'm looking forward to seeing these people mald because not only did a teenager kick everyone's asses, it was a blind teenager-)
Tseth makes a sort of nod gesture with his head. “Then we can refrain from incapacitating anyone until we know what’s going on.” He doesn’t expect her to listen to him, in fact he wouldn’t be surprised if she tried to go for him next. Right now, he’s on edge for almost anyone here to attack.
Salmook grunts at Tseth, finally closing his mouth. Tseth? That's a weird name.
He looks around at everyone else in the room, taking note of the man. The man is wearing the same clothes the jabby-lady is, Salmook realizes. He snorts at the jabby-man as he puts his jabber-pen away. This place is very jabby, isn't it?
Salmook turns his attention to the jabby-lady, looking at her over Tseth's shoulder.
"Jabby-lady die! Salmook eat!"
(oh dear)
"We know what's going on." Blaze says, before looking at Salmook.
"Go ahead, kiddo." she says kindly. Trying to stop Salmook, she could tell, would result in a lot of injuries.
Daphne raises her voice slightly, gesturing aggressively. “No-! No eating people!” She looks around. “…Please? Don’t kill anyone-” She goes silent and looks down. That was a bad idea-
Salmook tilts his head as Blaze and Daphne talk at the same time. He pouts and crosses his arms.
"Why no? Why tell Salmook what do? Me hungry, me eat."
Tseth stands up, moving out of the middle of everyone and more importantly getting out of the way of Salmook. “Maybe someone should move the dying woman out of this room before she becomes this kids next meal. I don’t think any of us want to be around for that.” He looks at the other staff members when he speaks. He looks at Salmook again. “It’s not good to- eat people. You shouldn’t do that.” This sounds ridiculous coming from a krill. Oh well, at least only Daphne would be able to laugh at it.
(Pff)
Daphne glances at Tseth, raising her eyebrows in an oh, really? expression, then shrugs.
The man looks around at everyone else, then grabs the unconscious woman and drags her out of the room. He comes back a few minutes later, then looks at Daphne, who’s still in the corner. He tilts his head. “Why don’t you come out of the corner and get to know everyone, Daphne?” It slightly felt like more of a command then a question, for some reason.
Daphne looks up at him, then shakes her head. “No- I, uh, I think I know everyone well enough.” She laughs nervously.
Salmook groans as the jabby-man takes the jabby-lady away. He narrows his eyes as the man returns and speaks to Daphne. Salmook doesn't know anything about her, but he doesn't like the jabby-man, either. He picks up on Daphne's nervousness and interrupts.
"Salmook hungry! Jabby-man take food! Hungry!"
Blaze steps away from everyone calmly.
She sighs quietly, and after a moment her voice fills the room.
"Everyone, be quiet." she orders in a tone of voice that would get even Salmook's attention.
Salmook bristles at Blaze's voice. He's not sure if he likes her. He squints at her.
"Salmook hungry still. Want eat."
Daphne stiffens and looks at Blaze, a little startled. “Oh- Sorry-“
The man glares at Blaze. “What makes you think you have any authority here?”
Tseth walks over to stand next to Daphne. He watches everyone with a trained eye, watching their actions and listening to their tone of voice. Everyone was tense being here. Personally, he just wanted to go back to the Wastelands. Though everyone had been acting weird the entire day before he got here. What was going on with that? Another part of this?
Salmook snaps his teeth at the jabby-man. He's not sure what "authority" means, but whatever it is, Salmook doesn't like it.
"Author-ty, shmaferty! You mean! No take me food!"
The man narrows his eyes at Salmook. “Shut it, you feral little rat.”
Daphne sits down on the ground, pulling her knees to her chest. She stares at the ground, clearly extremely tense.
("feral little rat" hold me back-)
(aggressive wheezing)