[ Dazed by the abundance of colors from sounds spilling around him, the splash of pain that Friede's target cries out surges like a cloud of smoke in a clear sky. His eyes dart from the bleeding volunteer to the figure yielding her turn to Box. It'd be unfair to say the hesitation could be blamed on a weak stomach, but he's just finished consuming his first meal in years, if not decades, and the world he's been dropped into is alien enough to create a new anxious beast with physical repercussions. There's a multitude of things he has to focus on when it feels like his body and mind might split at any moment—
—but hearing her voice helps, in a way. All voices are novel when he's from a world where everyone was forced not to speak if they wanted to live, and hers is no exception.
Box isn't confident picking up words that have been scrambled and faded from his memory, like carvings in stone eroded by time. Thankfully they've been given other ways to communicate, so the word in his mind forms an impression of compliance. The knife is picked up with a grip that's a little too hard, relaxed and held properly shortly after. A dangerous but necessary weapon now meant for entertainment, even if someone must suffer for it. Curiosity has led him to do so many things already, and Box has used weapons for such terrible acts. Throwing just happens to not have been one of them.
Well?, the attendant gestures at Box, but their gaze is set on Friede. You wanna teach him how to do it? ]
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—but hearing her voice helps, in a way. All voices are novel when he's from a world where everyone was forced not to speak if they wanted to live, and hers is no exception.
Box isn't confident picking up words that have been scrambled and faded from his memory, like carvings in stone eroded by time. Thankfully they've been given other ways to communicate, so the word in his mind forms an impression of compliance. The knife is picked up with a grip that's a little too hard, relaxed and held properly shortly after. A dangerous but necessary weapon now meant for entertainment, even if someone must suffer for it. Curiosity has led him to do so many things already, and Box has used weapons for such terrible acts. Throwing just happens to not have been one of them.
Well?, the attendant gestures at Box, but their gaze is set on Friede. You wanna teach him how to do it? ]