[ It comes on the Captain's orders. There is a newcomer aboard, granted safe passage the same as the rest of the group, who has caught Quicksilver Sam's attentions. Yet it is because he has stoked his unkind imaginations, the root of his paranoia, whether by energy, sight, or behavior...
Subaru is tenured in his favor, and so dispatched to investigate.
He walks the Pariah, notes her crew. He follows the trail, slipping between fact and rumor like water does over stone. Eventually, he comes to one of the cabins for the ill and stops short outside the door. There is... a presence inside. Someone. But the fog around them is dense and uneasy. Not in the way that threatens to crush, but in the way that threatens to rend. There are times when Samuel Vane's superstitions align well with Subaru's gifts. From outside the door, he ventures: ]
There's someone in there, isn't there?
[ Why pretend not to know when he does? He hesitates briefly before reaching for the door latch, only to find that it's stuck. Or being obstructed. ]
— closed to ensanguines
Subaru is tenured in his favor, and so dispatched to investigate.
He walks the Pariah, notes her crew. He follows the trail, slipping between fact and rumor like water does over stone. Eventually, he comes to one of the cabins for the ill and stops short outside the door. There is... a presence inside. Someone. But the fog around them is dense and uneasy. Not in the way that threatens to crush, but in the way that threatens to rend. There are times when Samuel Vane's superstitions align well with Subaru's gifts. From outside the door, he ventures: ]
There's someone in there, isn't there?
[ Why pretend not to know when he does? He hesitates briefly before reaching for the door latch, only to find that it's stuck. Or being obstructed. ]