[Nah, it's great! And LAWL, if you can't break the word limit now, when can you, am I right? *shot*]
As far as retaliations went, Aidou might have expected worse, though chances were that drawing attention to himself would have other repercussions down the line. No food and no rest until sundown. Small prices to pay for his dignity. And if Aidou suffered, if he couldn’t help listening to the blood pumping throughout the many bodies packed into the cafeteria and feeling the hollow gnawing in his belly, it was his own fault. Not for refusing to get on his hands and knees to clean, but because he’d left his feeding too long. He’d taken a risk and the hunger that swayed him was the result.
Would he regret it? Maybe. Would he regret whatever trials he had to go through while he was 'on notice'? No, that he was certain of. Better to stand alone than be part of either group of prisoners, the ones toiling or the ones hovering helplessly. Of course neither group would act out today. Failure was still fresh in their short memory spans, and on its heels was this added humiliation…
Aidou couldn’t expect his fellow captives to do otherwise than obey, but he nonetheless hated them in that moment, just a little.
So he stood and fumed, letting anger distract him until it couldn‘t distract him any longer. Their new armed guards he could dismiss because they were basically nothing more than puppets on strings, but when other prisoners got involved… Aidou had been staring down the rest of the prisoners, muscle jumping in his jaw, when a woman paused near him and spoke up. He glanced at her. The garbled nonsense was a small act of rebellion, left to die off as quickly as it’d come on. In more gruff a tone than Aidou’s had used, her escort directed her back to work and in response to him Aidou turned his face away, nose in the air. In some ways, these soldiers were already worse than the usual patronizing hospital staff.
As for the woman… He didn’t know what her shrug was supposed to mean. Sorry? What can you do? Whatever the case, a meaningless gesture.
Folding his arms a little tighter, the vampire closed his eyes. "You’re better off just doing as you’re told," he advised lowly.
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As far as retaliations went, Aidou might have expected worse, though chances were that drawing attention to himself would have other repercussions down the line. No food and no rest until sundown. Small prices to pay for his dignity. And if Aidou suffered, if he couldn’t help listening to the blood pumping throughout the many bodies packed into the cafeteria and feeling the hollow gnawing in his belly, it was his own fault. Not for refusing to get on his hands and knees to clean, but because he’d left his feeding too long. He’d taken a risk and the hunger that swayed him was the result.
Would he regret it? Maybe. Would he regret whatever trials he had to go through while he was 'on notice'? No, that he was certain of. Better to stand alone than be part of either group of prisoners, the ones toiling or the ones hovering helplessly. Of course neither group would act out today. Failure was still fresh in their short memory spans, and on its heels was this added humiliation…
Aidou couldn’t expect his fellow captives to do otherwise than obey, but he nonetheless hated them in that moment, just a little.
So he stood and fumed, letting anger distract him until it couldn‘t distract him any longer. Their new armed guards he could dismiss because they were basically nothing more than puppets on strings, but when other prisoners got involved… Aidou had been staring down the rest of the prisoners, muscle jumping in his jaw, when a woman paused near him and spoke up. He glanced at her. The garbled nonsense was a small act of rebellion, left to die off as quickly as it’d come on. In more gruff a tone than Aidou’s had used, her escort directed her back to work and in response to him Aidou turned his face away, nose in the air. In some ways, these soldiers were already worse than the usual patronizing hospital staff.
As for the woman… He didn’t know what her shrug was supposed to mean. Sorry? What can you do? Whatever the case, a meaningless gesture.
Folding his arms a little tighter, the vampire closed his eyes. "You’re better off just doing as you’re told," he advised lowly.