Virak Ip
Broken Soul
Redacted due to me being an idiot and posting with the wrong account. Not sure how to fix this... so, oh well. Posted with Xevek Rakama below.
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Xevek Nekonis
From The Shadows
Bastion, Undisclosed Medical Center, Private Room
Medi-Synth Testings, Days after Introduction
Boredom, Xevek was slowly becoming sure, was probably one of the best ways for an individual to torture him. Confined to the bed he had been assigned to as he was, the Iridonian had been left alone since he had returned from having the new experimental drug injected into his body apart from the routine tests conducted upon him by nurses and doctors alike who passed across his awareness as nothing more than insignificant blurs of sound and colour. With him not being permitted to move about until the professionals could ascertain that he would not up and die on them and could move onto the next array of tests, Xevek had found himself tapping out meaningless rhythms against his bedspread more often than not, the desire to move, to be doing something physical whether it be a kata or simply passing, slowly beginning to express itself in a variety of little ticks and actions.
However, what was worse than the physical boredom was the mental boredom. With limited access to the holonet, and certainly no access to the more sensitive documents that he loved to pour over and learn from, his mind had slowly been stagnating. Yes, only a short time had passed. But, for Xevek, it might as well have been an eternity.
Sinking into his mind and exploring the rhythms of the Force were often activities that he enjoyed, but, after the second day they had grown stale. He needed to be challenged in some form, needed the stimulus that came from pouring over tactical discussions or exploring the philosophies of Sith Lords living and dead. It had been eye opening, in a way, for the Iridonian as he come to realise how much his early life, of constantly pushing himself to be better, had imprinted itself upon his every day behaviors.
Grunting to himself as he shifted in place, Xevek's eye drifted close as he took a moment to balance himself, his mind swimming and breaking him from his thoughts. Beneath the mask he wore, something he refused to remove no matter how may times he was asked, his jaw clenched tightly as he fought not to give himself over to the illness wracking his body. Like all test subjects prior, Xevek was not experiencing the days after the administration of the drug in a comfortable way. Hissing a curse in Ul'Zabrak under his breath, Xevek's hands clenched into a fist as the knot in his stomach slowly loosened itself and his muscles relaxed.
Panting slightly, he relaxed into pillow set behind him. Naked apart from a loose pair of shorts beneath the sheets, which were pulled down to his cover only his legs, the majority of Xevek's body was revealed to any observer, letting them see the tattoos, scars and burns that were scrawled across hos body with ease. Now, though, accompanying the wounds of his past was thin sheen of sweat that clung uncomfortably to his skin.
The sudden feeling like he was burning up from the inside out that surged up in the wake of the pain and nausea was not unexpected and left Xevek was grateful for the cool, artificial breeze that ran along his bared body, uncaring of the fact that he looked odd with his mask and the pair of shorts being the only items of clothing on his person and of the fact that he was essentially letting any passing nurse or doctor get an eyeful of the tightly coiled muscles that covered his tall frame. The cycle of switching between normal pains, nausea, feeling feverish and even chills was one that Xevek was slowly becoming accustomed to.
Hissing a few more curses under his breathe, Xevek slowly his eye, flinching at the harsh light that pierced through the eye hole of his mask. The environment of a hospital was not one that agreed with him and is was certainly not doing anything to improve his already foul mood from the boredom curling at his mind. The harsh lights, not natural by any means, near burnt at his sensitive eye whenever he ever opened it in the unfortunate position of looking anywhere close to the source of the light. Beyond that, however, it was the smell that truly got at him. While many beings would only be able to smell the overly clean smell of antiseptic chemicals, for the Iridonian the hospital stank of barely disease and death that was barely covered up by the chemicals that served to only make his nose burn with every inhale.
Scenting a new scent approaching his room, his gaze flickered over to one wall where the time was displayed, noting that whoever the new scent was they were most likely there to conduct his next rounds of tests as it was certainly the time to do so. However, even with this conclusion, Xevek's hand slowly slid beneath his pillow and wrapped around the hilt of the lightsaber he kept there even as his cybernetic hand flexed in preparation of a fight. Life had taught him to never let his guard down and so, even in the middle of the capital of the Empire, he was ready for an attack against his person.
So concentrated was he on tracking the approaching scent and preparing to fight should he need to, Xevek only subconsciously paid attention to the sweet smell of the scent beneath the standard smells that clung to all nurses and doctors.
[member="Farah"]
Farah
Virtuosa
Surprisingly enough, it wasn’t that difficult to find willing participants for her drug trial within the Sith Empire. She thought that the chance of death or the drug not working—along with the few weeks of horrible symptoms regardless—would be enough to scare away most potential candidates. Alas, how she underestimated a Sith’s natural desire to get stronger via whatever means necessary.
Farah had met Xevek during the Sith Empire’s tournament. He’d been there as a competitor while she’d been part of the medical team treating the wounded. Evaluating him for herself, he seemed to be a promising candidate and was thus offered a spot in the drug trial.
This trial was her baby. With all the work she’d put into developing this drug, the Zeltron did not want to see effort wasted by lazy or incompetent medical staff. Thus, she’d overseen the trial herself, making sure to visit patients as time allowed for.
“Rakama.” Stepping into his room, eyes busy with the datapad in her hands, she hardly sounded warm. Yet not unfriendly. Such was Farah. Sometimes she made an effort to be rude when deemed necessary, but mostly she seemed brusque and unamused. It was a love of medicine that molded her that way; often busy and no time for pleasantries.
“How are you feeling today?” She looked up from the datapad and made her way closer to his bedside. “Able to keep anything down?”
It was odd that he’d choose to wear a mask with the rest of himself exposed, but Farah didn’t mind so long as he was compliant with the trial regulations. Which he had been, so far.
[member="Xevek Rakama"]
Farah had met Xevek during the Sith Empire’s tournament. He’d been there as a competitor while she’d been part of the medical team treating the wounded. Evaluating him for herself, he seemed to be a promising candidate and was thus offered a spot in the drug trial.
This trial was her baby. With all the work she’d put into developing this drug, the Zeltron did not want to see effort wasted by lazy or incompetent medical staff. Thus, she’d overseen the trial herself, making sure to visit patients as time allowed for.
“Rakama.” Stepping into his room, eyes busy with the datapad in her hands, she hardly sounded warm. Yet not unfriendly. Such was Farah. Sometimes she made an effort to be rude when deemed necessary, but mostly she seemed brusque and unamused. It was a love of medicine that molded her that way; often busy and no time for pleasantries.
“How are you feeling today?” She looked up from the datapad and made her way closer to his bedside. “Able to keep anything down?”
It was odd that he’d choose to wear a mask with the rest of himself exposed, but Farah didn’t mind so long as he was compliant with the trial regulations. Which he had been, so far.
[member="Xevek Rakama"]
Xevek Nekonis
From The Shadows
The appearance on Farah in his room left Xevek to relax somewhat, releasing his grip on the lightsaber and pushing himself up into a more seated position as she approached. However, that did not mean that his guard was lowed. Trust was a precious commodity after all and Xevek wasn't in the habit of passing it out easily. Did he hold a measure of respect for the doctor and her work? Yes. Did he trust her? Not in the slightest, or, rather, not on a personal level. He did trust her to look after her own interests and, since he was involved in her testing, her interests aligned with his own for the moment.
The second reason for him not to trust her hit him as she approached. As a Zabrak, his urge to find a mate was largely pheromone based and as such, with Farah being of Zeltron blood, the pheromones that she released served to either to soothe him into a trance like state or rile him up to the point that he had the urge to tear her throat out to stop her assault against him, an instinctual opposition to her pheromones. On this day in particular, with hos body bared to the soothing air, Farah would be able to pick out the tightening of his muscle as he fought back his instincts and made himself not lunge at her, hands scrambling to her throat. Instead, he took a few moments after her words to focus on his breathing, flexing and relaxing his muscles as he forced his body to slacken and ease back into the pillow behind him.
"Doctor." Her greeting was replied to tensely as he rolled her questions around his mind, knowing that for the tests to be successful he was best ensuring that he answered entirely truthfully. "Today so far I have experienced normal level of pain, aches, as previously reported. So far, I've not experienced any chills today but I have experienced feeling feverish for most of the day. Nausea and lightheartedness both seem to have been recurring pretty regularly throughout the day, however, I have managed to keep food and drink down. Today, at least."
Pausing, Xevek mused over an idea as he kept his gaze locked on Farah's face, fighting down the urge to tear at it with his claws until it was a bloody mess - although he did not fully suppress the quiet growl at the back of his throat. He was bored, that much was true. And his idea would surely solve that. However, was it worth the effort? Worth adopting another mask, another personality, for the extent of his stay in observation for the momentary relief from that boredom? His mind stirred up memories in respose to his self-directed question, memories of doing nothing more than tolerating the drivel he could get from the holonet while staring blankly at the wall opposite him. Yes, yes it was worth it.
"If I might be so bold, Doctor? Might I make a request of you?" Unlike the dispassionate stoicism he had spoke with just moments before, there was now a faint stirring of emotion behind his words. Trepidation, caution, desperation and eagerness all rolled into one lurked at the forefront of his mind and within his words, falsely aroused emotions designed to match the falsified persona he would now have to stick to.
The second reason for him not to trust her hit him as she approached. As a Zabrak, his urge to find a mate was largely pheromone based and as such, with Farah being of Zeltron blood, the pheromones that she released served to either to soothe him into a trance like state or rile him up to the point that he had the urge to tear her throat out to stop her assault against him, an instinctual opposition to her pheromones. On this day in particular, with hos body bared to the soothing air, Farah would be able to pick out the tightening of his muscle as he fought back his instincts and made himself not lunge at her, hands scrambling to her throat. Instead, he took a few moments after her words to focus on his breathing, flexing and relaxing his muscles as he forced his body to slacken and ease back into the pillow behind him.
"Doctor." Her greeting was replied to tensely as he rolled her questions around his mind, knowing that for the tests to be successful he was best ensuring that he answered entirely truthfully. "Today so far I have experienced normal level of pain, aches, as previously reported. So far, I've not experienced any chills today but I have experienced feeling feverish for most of the day. Nausea and lightheartedness both seem to have been recurring pretty regularly throughout the day, however, I have managed to keep food and drink down. Today, at least."
Pausing, Xevek mused over an idea as he kept his gaze locked on Farah's face, fighting down the urge to tear at it with his claws until it was a bloody mess - although he did not fully suppress the quiet growl at the back of his throat. He was bored, that much was true. And his idea would surely solve that. However, was it worth the effort? Worth adopting another mask, another personality, for the extent of his stay in observation for the momentary relief from that boredom? His mind stirred up memories in respose to his self-directed question, memories of doing nothing more than tolerating the drivel he could get from the holonet while staring blankly at the wall opposite him. Yes, yes it was worth it.
"If I might be so bold, Doctor? Might I make a request of you?" Unlike the dispassionate stoicism he had spoke with just moments before, there was now a faint stirring of emotion behind his words. Trepidation, caution, desperation and eagerness all rolled into one lurked at the forefront of his mind and within his words, falsely aroused emotions designed to match the falsified persona he would now have to stick to.
[member="Farah"]
Farah
Virtuosa
He seemed tense.
Just because Farah lacked the outward tenderness an empathy often displayed by her people did not mean that she couldn’t pick up on body language and shifts in mood. It was something that had come naturally to her, though she hadn’t been very good at it at first. Most Zeltrons weren’t clones and as such had been social from a young age. Farah didn’t have that advantage so it took her a little longer to interpret emotions.
“All good things.” She commented offhand, ticking off a few notes on his chart. The nurses were generally the ones who’d do the day to day patient checkups and had already documented his progress but Farah liked to be involved as much as her schedule would allow for. This project was her baby.
Her head lifted from the datapad, one crimson brow rising slowly at his request. “What can I do for you, Rakama?”
He’d always been relatively quiet. Gruff. Silent. But he hadn’t been disruptive nor crude to the staff so she saw no reason to not hear him out.
That, and she was curious.
[member="Xevek Rakama"]
Just because Farah lacked the outward tenderness an empathy often displayed by her people did not mean that she couldn’t pick up on body language and shifts in mood. It was something that had come naturally to her, though she hadn’t been very good at it at first. Most Zeltrons weren’t clones and as such had been social from a young age. Farah didn’t have that advantage so it took her a little longer to interpret emotions.
“All good things.” She commented offhand, ticking off a few notes on his chart. The nurses were generally the ones who’d do the day to day patient checkups and had already documented his progress but Farah liked to be involved as much as her schedule would allow for. This project was her baby.
Her head lifted from the datapad, one crimson brow rising slowly at his request. “What can I do for you, Rakama?”
He’d always been relatively quiet. Gruff. Silent. But he hadn’t been disruptive nor crude to the staff so she saw no reason to not hear him out.
That, and she was curious.
[member="Xevek Rakama"]
Xevek Nekonis
From The Shadows
At the Doctor's inquiry, Xevek hesitated as he set his thoughts in order, the manifested emotions he was pushing to the front of his mind to force an amiable, if nervous, expression across the features of his heavily scared face slipping across the surface of his 'inner-self', the iron core of will and general apathy that was him, as if they were oil across water - that is, separate from his true feelings. Reaching up slowly, almost hesitantly (an act to preserve his persona than any true emotion), Xevek removed the mask from his head, letting the ashen dreadlocks of his hair fall lose against his pillow as he did so.
His action exposed the tribal tattoos that denoted his Clan, called Jat'o among his people, and the mess of scars that covered his face. The jagged looking eye socket that was malformed from where the bones had not been properly reset was heavily shadowed, seemingly transforming into a void into the abyss, as he rose his head to lock his gaze with Farah's own so as to present honestly and vulnerability, falsified emotions of indecision floating with the cold, amber depths of his one remaining eye.
Every emotion that Xevek was displaying, ultimately, was faked in one way or another. An act he had taught himself, with the aid of his parents, since a young age so as to fit in. After all, emotions were rarely experienced by Xevek beyond momentary satisfaction and fury - when he freed it. As a kep he had been volatile, the emotions he felt those that burnt strongly and brightly, most often being rage and fury, when not cocooned in a world of apathy that drove away those of a similar age. But, he had learnt, he had frozen those explosive furies into an icy tundra, kept them stilled and controlled until the time where he saw fit to let those fire be born from icy rage and dance once more, he had learnt to how to fake emotions, how to conjure them forth when all he wished to do was stare upon the world with apathy when the strong emotions he needed to feel to feel anything where to weak to register within his mind. Often, emotions were cold and distant concepts that he only vaguely understood.
Letting the emotions he was currently falsifying, and his very true feeling of boredom, seep into his voice, Xevek spoke slowly and hesitantly. In doing so, even such a simple action pulled sharply at his scars - the deepest of which contorting into deep canyons. "I, to be brief, am bored. Quiet is often what I seek, but with this drugs I cannot think clearly, my focus too often broken. Without my thoughts, without my focus, I am left with no distraction and that which is normally comforting becomes oppressive. The Force remains but, here to, my focus is too broken to allow me my full delve into its embrace. My favour? That you, if possible, speak to me when possible. That you free me from the chains of boredom and irritation, do what my mind is robbed of accomplishing with these drugs."
Letting the silence reign for but a moment, Xevek stared closely at Farah, slitted pupil flittering across her features as he did so, taking in any twitches of her facial muscles while also examining her. Before she could reply, he would speak again, his eye no longer focused on her own eyes, but, instead, locked upon her pulse point as his examination fed more strength to the allure of her pheromones and pushed him to tear into the very same slender throat that he glared at.
"Why you is a simple question to answer." Without his notice, a low rumbling growl, more prevalent that the latent growl that was constant in his voice, the one that came across as simple gruffness, began to coil around his words. Primal and feral in nature as it echoed forth from within his throat. "You are not as boring, as simple, as those that have also been caring for me during this experiment. Which leads to a secondary favour, if I might be so bold to address it now? I wish for you to be my only attending doctor. The rest, they disgust me. You. You are intriguing."
As was sometimes common with his words, Xevek had spoke half truths. Yes he was bored, the drugs robbing him of his focus but he also wished to speak to the doctor more for the fact that he wished to train himself to resist her pheromones and the effect they had on him, to master his own mind against a threat he had not foreseen. Yes he found her fascinating compared to her fellows, but that was because she was the only one that was attractive, alluring and intriguing to him. He viewed the world as naturally ugly, naturally repulsive, when compared to the beauty of the Force. And, yet, the Zeltron before him managed to present a subtle beauty.
Along the lines where the gorgeous sight of the Darkness curling in and around her, the threads of the vast ocean twisting in response to her thoughts and emotions in a dance that drew him focus, meshed against the natural ugliness of her physical shell (even if he could recognise that she was physically pleasing enough that most would label her as beautiful). Unlike the majority of people, unlike Farah's workers, where the Force and the physical clashed it did not repulse, but attract as the contrast managed to create a unique sense of beauty he had only seen thrice before - his parents and an acquaintance. The fact that she was one of that small number of people that he found alluring and intriguing was what truthfully drove his actions - along side the boredom he abhorred, of course. That combination, in the end, what what made him pose his requests and decide that it was worth the effort to maintain his crafted and chosen persona more often, and that it was even worth removing his mask to try and sway Farah's answer.
His action exposed the tribal tattoos that denoted his Clan, called Jat'o among his people, and the mess of scars that covered his face. The jagged looking eye socket that was malformed from where the bones had not been properly reset was heavily shadowed, seemingly transforming into a void into the abyss, as he rose his head to lock his gaze with Farah's own so as to present honestly and vulnerability, falsified emotions of indecision floating with the cold, amber depths of his one remaining eye.
Every emotion that Xevek was displaying, ultimately, was faked in one way or another. An act he had taught himself, with the aid of his parents, since a young age so as to fit in. After all, emotions were rarely experienced by Xevek beyond momentary satisfaction and fury - when he freed it. As a kep he had been volatile, the emotions he felt those that burnt strongly and brightly, most often being rage and fury, when not cocooned in a world of apathy that drove away those of a similar age. But, he had learnt, he had frozen those explosive furies into an icy tundra, kept them stilled and controlled until the time where he saw fit to let those fire be born from icy rage and dance once more, he had learnt to how to fake emotions, how to conjure them forth when all he wished to do was stare upon the world with apathy when the strong emotions he needed to feel to feel anything where to weak to register within his mind. Often, emotions were cold and distant concepts that he only vaguely understood.
Letting the emotions he was currently falsifying, and his very true feeling of boredom, seep into his voice, Xevek spoke slowly and hesitantly. In doing so, even such a simple action pulled sharply at his scars - the deepest of which contorting into deep canyons. "I, to be brief, am bored. Quiet is often what I seek, but with this drugs I cannot think clearly, my focus too often broken. Without my thoughts, without my focus, I am left with no distraction and that which is normally comforting becomes oppressive. The Force remains but, here to, my focus is too broken to allow me my full delve into its embrace. My favour? That you, if possible, speak to me when possible. That you free me from the chains of boredom and irritation, do what my mind is robbed of accomplishing with these drugs."
Letting the silence reign for but a moment, Xevek stared closely at Farah, slitted pupil flittering across her features as he did so, taking in any twitches of her facial muscles while also examining her. Before she could reply, he would speak again, his eye no longer focused on her own eyes, but, instead, locked upon her pulse point as his examination fed more strength to the allure of her pheromones and pushed him to tear into the very same slender throat that he glared at.
"Why you is a simple question to answer." Without his notice, a low rumbling growl, more prevalent that the latent growl that was constant in his voice, the one that came across as simple gruffness, began to coil around his words. Primal and feral in nature as it echoed forth from within his throat. "You are not as boring, as simple, as those that have also been caring for me during this experiment. Which leads to a secondary favour, if I might be so bold to address it now? I wish for you to be my only attending doctor. The rest, they disgust me. You. You are intriguing."
As was sometimes common with his words, Xevek had spoke half truths. Yes he was bored, the drugs robbing him of his focus but he also wished to speak to the doctor more for the fact that he wished to train himself to resist her pheromones and the effect they had on him, to master his own mind against a threat he had not foreseen. Yes he found her fascinating compared to her fellows, but that was because she was the only one that was attractive, alluring and intriguing to him. He viewed the world as naturally ugly, naturally repulsive, when compared to the beauty of the Force. And, yet, the Zeltron before him managed to present a subtle beauty.
Along the lines where the gorgeous sight of the Darkness curling in and around her, the threads of the vast ocean twisting in response to her thoughts and emotions in a dance that drew him focus, meshed against the natural ugliness of her physical shell (even if he could recognise that she was physically pleasing enough that most would label her as beautiful). Unlike the majority of people, unlike Farah's workers, where the Force and the physical clashed it did not repulse, but attract as the contrast managed to create a unique sense of beauty he had only seen thrice before - his parents and an acquaintance. The fact that she was one of that small number of people that he found alluring and intriguing was what truthfully drove his actions - along side the boredom he abhorred, of course. That combination, in the end, what what made him pose his requests and decide that it was worth the effort to maintain his crafted and chosen persona more often, and that it was even worth removing his mask to try and sway Farah's answer.
[member="Farah"]
Farah
Virtuosa
Farah tapped at the chart a few times, brows arching almost imperceptibly as Xevek removed his mask. Ever since the Zabrak had arrived, he’d been rather secretive about certain aspects of his person. Gruff, quiet, but all together polite. That was all Farah really cared about aside from his qualities as a good candidate. Some of the others she had agreed to take on were less hospitable.
There was something working behind those amber eyes, a hodgepodge of emotion and restraint. Maybe she’d have been able to make some clear sense out of it if she looked closer or bothered to use her empathy more. It was a skill she only recently realized could be useful.
“Holonet not good enough?”
Perhaps there could be some benefit to spending some time with one of her trial patients. See how the drug affected their relative mood and way of thinking.
Her lips twisted faintly into the beginning of a wry smirk. “Are you flirting with me, Rakama?”
Well, at least he wasn’t an old man. She much preferred those patients out cold on the operating table, face covered and insides exposed.
[member="Xevek Rakama"]
There was something working behind those amber eyes, a hodgepodge of emotion and restraint. Maybe she’d have been able to make some clear sense out of it if she looked closer or bothered to use her empathy more. It was a skill she only recently realized could be useful.
“Holonet not good enough?”
Perhaps there could be some benefit to spending some time with one of her trial patients. See how the drug affected their relative mood and way of thinking.
Her lips twisted faintly into the beginning of a wry smirk. “Are you flirting with me, Rakama?”
Well, at least he wasn’t an old man. She much preferred those patients out cold on the operating table, face covered and insides exposed.
[member="Xevek Rakama"]
Xevek Nekonis
From The Shadows
"And if I was to be doing so, what would you say in response Doctor?"
Easily slipping into the mask, it solidified around him finally, a personality that would read as being real to empathy and surface level scans of his mind, even as the physical mask was left discarded to one side. "I see beauty differently than most, of that I am more than aware. You are, as I saw, intriguing for the fact that you are probably the... third person I can even call attractive in this disgusting level of reality. An effect that I would wish to study, just as I'm sure that you want to study the effects of your drug upon me." Shrugging slightly, Xevek pushed himself up higher in his bed, a lazy chuckle fell from his lips, disinterest hidden being the drawl that clung to his next few words. "In my own way, I suppose you could say, yes, I am flirting. Not going to punish me are you?"
The cheeky smirk that had been pulling at his lips faltered a moment later, his eye glazing over with pain as another tremor shot through his system. Head tilting back involuntary, his hands clenched into sudden fists at his sides as the corded muscles along his neck tensed, veins pulsing against his skin as his entire body seized up in place. Working it's way down his body muscle after muscle tightened until even his toes were curled up in pain, a low, angry snarl being the only sound he made instead of a pained noise. For a few seconds, his body maintained its bowed position, sweat forming on the thick planes of muscle before, with a grunt, his entire body seemed to go slack simultaneously, dropping him back against the bed.
Breathing heavily, though coming shy of panting, Xevek's chest was rapidly expanding and contracting as, within his chest, he felt as if his hearts were attempted to burst free from how hard they were pounding against his ribcage. Head bowed so that his chin was resting against his sternum and eye tightly clenched shut, Xevek's breaths began to come slower and slower as he regained control of his body. By now, the cool air of the room compared to the heat seeping from his body was making the fine layer of perspiration evaporate, leaving him robbed of the feverish warmth that had curled under his skin and leaving fine tremors and shivers to dance along his limbs. However, even so, he did not seek to pull the sheets back over his form.
Eventually, Xevek's eye cracked open slightly, a hint of amber staring up at the Zeltron doctor at his side, a wry smirk pulling at his lips. "Well... it seems your drug decided to punish me instead." He spoke before Farah could, picking up the train of thought that had been cut off. "How was it, to see the effects up close, Doctor? I do hope," the tone of his voice descended into something representing a cheeky purr, "that it has not lessened any impact future flirtations may have."
Easily slipping into the mask, it solidified around him finally, a personality that would read as being real to empathy and surface level scans of his mind, even as the physical mask was left discarded to one side. "I see beauty differently than most, of that I am more than aware. You are, as I saw, intriguing for the fact that you are probably the... third person I can even call attractive in this disgusting level of reality. An effect that I would wish to study, just as I'm sure that you want to study the effects of your drug upon me." Shrugging slightly, Xevek pushed himself up higher in his bed, a lazy chuckle fell from his lips, disinterest hidden being the drawl that clung to his next few words. "In my own way, I suppose you could say, yes, I am flirting. Not going to punish me are you?"
The cheeky smirk that had been pulling at his lips faltered a moment later, his eye glazing over with pain as another tremor shot through his system. Head tilting back involuntary, his hands clenched into sudden fists at his sides as the corded muscles along his neck tensed, veins pulsing against his skin as his entire body seized up in place. Working it's way down his body muscle after muscle tightened until even his toes were curled up in pain, a low, angry snarl being the only sound he made instead of a pained noise. For a few seconds, his body maintained its bowed position, sweat forming on the thick planes of muscle before, with a grunt, his entire body seemed to go slack simultaneously, dropping him back against the bed.
Breathing heavily, though coming shy of panting, Xevek's chest was rapidly expanding and contracting as, within his chest, he felt as if his hearts were attempted to burst free from how hard they were pounding against his ribcage. Head bowed so that his chin was resting against his sternum and eye tightly clenched shut, Xevek's breaths began to come slower and slower as he regained control of his body. By now, the cool air of the room compared to the heat seeping from his body was making the fine layer of perspiration evaporate, leaving him robbed of the feverish warmth that had curled under his skin and leaving fine tremors and shivers to dance along his limbs. However, even so, he did not seek to pull the sheets back over his form.
Eventually, Xevek's eye cracked open slightly, a hint of amber staring up at the Zeltron doctor at his side, a wry smirk pulling at his lips. "Well... it seems your drug decided to punish me instead." He spoke before Farah could, picking up the train of thought that had been cut off. "How was it, to see the effects up close, Doctor? I do hope," the tone of his voice descended into something representing a cheeky purr, "that it has not lessened any impact future flirtations may have."
[member="Farah"]
Farah
Virtuosa
Farah exhaled shortly through her nose, vague amusement playing on her features. She made no move to interrupt Xevek’s explanation and only stepped closer when a painful episode overtook him.
Limbs seized, extremities curled and writhed in pain as he rode the tremors out as he snarled in obvious discomfort. But he didn’t lash out—not the furniture, not at the monitors beeping incessantly in response to his rapid heart rate, not at her as she stood by his bedside with the edges of her lips curled in bemusement. Perhaps it would seem that she was mocking him or enjoying his struggle. It was neither, as Farah held no personal grudge towards him nor did she particularly delight in seeing pain. Right now though, she was intrigued.
“You’re not as boring as I thought, are you?” Her toothy smile seemed a bit off, a bit too pleased in the moment where his body was still recovering from being wracked with painful quakes. “I find silent men positively droll.”
Her smile fell in intensity, yet it did not soften. “I’m surprised that both of your hearts have been working fine without any issues.” She glanced towards the monitors.
“As for your flirtations, you haven’t been the first dying man to hit on me.”
[member="Xevek Rakama"]
Limbs seized, extremities curled and writhed in pain as he rode the tremors out as he snarled in obvious discomfort. But he didn’t lash out—not the furniture, not at the monitors beeping incessantly in response to his rapid heart rate, not at her as she stood by his bedside with the edges of her lips curled in bemusement. Perhaps it would seem that she was mocking him or enjoying his struggle. It was neither, as Farah held no personal grudge towards him nor did she particularly delight in seeing pain. Right now though, she was intrigued.
“You’re not as boring as I thought, are you?” Her toothy smile seemed a bit off, a bit too pleased in the moment where his body was still recovering from being wracked with painful quakes. “I find silent men positively droll.”
Her smile fell in intensity, yet it did not soften. “I’m surprised that both of your hearts have been working fine without any issues.” She glanced towards the monitors.
“As for your flirtations, you haven’t been the first dying man to hit on me.”
[member="Xevek Rakama"]
Xevek Nekonis
From The Shadows
"Does boring indeed equal silence for you, Doctor? My how noisy your dying men must be to entertain you, to earn your attention, in their dying moments." A low, raspy chuckle chased his words, as Xevek settled back into the pillows behind him, his biological hand lifting to settle across his sternum. "Personally, I find those that chatter without end simply tiresome. How can one relax with their own thoughts if noise is all that surrounds them? No, silence or words with no substance are much more intriguing to me - the latter more than the former. Silence betrays inner thought, words spoken to hide silence is more fascinating."
As he had been speaking his words had begun to trail off towards the end, the speed at which he spoken slowing as his focus diverted. The hand set upon his chest slowly arched as, within the Force, strands began to gather and twist into being beneath his palm. Eye darkened with intent, Xevek directed those strands inwards, intent spiraling along them and commanding what was to be done. The pain that he had felt being gathered and used as the flames to forge his strength, Xevek's heart rate picked up slightly as the Force began to settle around the hearts within his chest. Stripped of an intent to harm and, instead, imbued with an intent to empower the Darkness that Xevek directed mutated into something like a bastardisation of healing as the image of a Zabrak's twin vascular system appeared before his minds eye.
Slowly, staring at his progress through the veil of the Force, the Force began to sink into the muscles of the hearts, settling within them just as it would if he were forging a blade and imparting upon it a chain of the Force. Strengthening and guarding his hearts, the strands of the Force found a new home where he commanded, securing themselves in place and seeing to it that his intent was imparted upon reality. A single thought, a single command, set within his hearts and ensuring that no shock, no pain, would exploit the inherent weakness of his hearts - that one could not continue without the other: 'I shall not fall, I shall not weaken'.
Speaking slowly as his focus returned from the beauty of the Force to the ugliness of the material world, Xevek's eye flickered upwards towards Farah as his arm slumped down to the bed, a tiredness overtaking him in the wake of the bastardised healing he had subjected himself to. "Pain Begat Strength. A saying of my Clan. No matter how much you hurt, how much you bleed or weep that pain shall be used to empower you, forge you into something stronger. As Jath, I was taught to make that saying a reality through the Force. My hearts beat still because of the pain I suffer. Issues they are subjected to are conquered by my pain and any new pain I am subjected to replaces that expanded." A wry smirk pulled at his lips. "Make of that as you will."
A near silent, somewhat exhausted chuckled fell from his lips as Xevek's one eyelid slid shut, hiding his amber gaze from Farah. "Before you leave, allow me to return some favour. You spoke of your liking of men, no? Perhaps I should return that with an admission of my liking of women." Even as exhaustion from the recent bout of pain and healing settled within his bones, pulling at his muscles, a small and cheeky grin pulled at his lips - it was a novelty for the normally stoic Iridonian to have to manipulate his features, so often hidden behind his mask, so much. "Would the good doctor like to hear them? Or would they be lost within the flirtations of dying men?"
As he had been speaking his words had begun to trail off towards the end, the speed at which he spoken slowing as his focus diverted. The hand set upon his chest slowly arched as, within the Force, strands began to gather and twist into being beneath his palm. Eye darkened with intent, Xevek directed those strands inwards, intent spiraling along them and commanding what was to be done. The pain that he had felt being gathered and used as the flames to forge his strength, Xevek's heart rate picked up slightly as the Force began to settle around the hearts within his chest. Stripped of an intent to harm and, instead, imbued with an intent to empower the Darkness that Xevek directed mutated into something like a bastardisation of healing as the image of a Zabrak's twin vascular system appeared before his minds eye.
Slowly, staring at his progress through the veil of the Force, the Force began to sink into the muscles of the hearts, settling within them just as it would if he were forging a blade and imparting upon it a chain of the Force. Strengthening and guarding his hearts, the strands of the Force found a new home where he commanded, securing themselves in place and seeing to it that his intent was imparted upon reality. A single thought, a single command, set within his hearts and ensuring that no shock, no pain, would exploit the inherent weakness of his hearts - that one could not continue without the other: 'I shall not fall, I shall not weaken'.
Speaking slowly as his focus returned from the beauty of the Force to the ugliness of the material world, Xevek's eye flickered upwards towards Farah as his arm slumped down to the bed, a tiredness overtaking him in the wake of the bastardised healing he had subjected himself to. "Pain Begat Strength. A saying of my Clan. No matter how much you hurt, how much you bleed or weep that pain shall be used to empower you, forge you into something stronger. As Jath, I was taught to make that saying a reality through the Force. My hearts beat still because of the pain I suffer. Issues they are subjected to are conquered by my pain and any new pain I am subjected to replaces that expanded." A wry smirk pulled at his lips. "Make of that as you will."
A near silent, somewhat exhausted chuckled fell from his lips as Xevek's one eyelid slid shut, hiding his amber gaze from Farah. "Before you leave, allow me to return some favour. You spoke of your liking of men, no? Perhaps I should return that with an admission of my liking of women." Even as exhaustion from the recent bout of pain and healing settled within his bones, pulling at his muscles, a small and cheeky grin pulled at his lips - it was a novelty for the normally stoic Iridonian to have to manipulate his features, so often hidden behind his mask, so much. "Would the good doctor like to hear them? Or would they be lost within the flirtations of dying men?"
[member="Farah"]
Farah
Virtuosa
“Not necessarily.” Her eyes trailed over every scar, every line of visible muscle over the Zabrak’s crimson skin and dark ink. “On the contrary, someone too chatty is irritating.”
She was a busy woman, after all. There were few things Farah despised more than someone wasting her time, so the fact that she was lingering here was telling of her interest in Xevek.
Her smile curled at the edges and the doctor looked faintly amused. “That sounds like the rambling of an insane man.” Her words weren’t necessarily dismissive, moreso challenging. It wasn’t as if she didn’t think that pain and struggle made someone more resilient, but when it came to your circulatory system, Farah had different thoughts. “I guarantee you that your two hearts are just as delicate as any human’s once the flesh and bone are peeled away.”
She’d had her fair share of those.
“I can’t say that I won’t forget whatever you’ll tell me.”
Two hearts. A more complicated circulatory system, delicate yet efficient. How she’d love to peel back that skin, crack that chest and get a first-hand look at how he was wired.
[member="Xevek Rakama"]
She was a busy woman, after all. There were few things Farah despised more than someone wasting her time, so the fact that she was lingering here was telling of her interest in Xevek.
Her smile curled at the edges and the doctor looked faintly amused. “That sounds like the rambling of an insane man.” Her words weren’t necessarily dismissive, moreso challenging. It wasn’t as if she didn’t think that pain and struggle made someone more resilient, but when it came to your circulatory system, Farah had different thoughts. “I guarantee you that your two hearts are just as delicate as any human’s once the flesh and bone are peeled away.”
She’d had her fair share of those.
“I can’t say that I won’t forget whatever you’ll tell me.”
Two hearts. A more complicated circulatory system, delicate yet efficient. How she’d love to peel back that skin, crack that chest and get a first-hand look at how he was wired.
[member="Xevek Rakama"]