It's been a couple of weeks since Sebastian was blinded by the Magnus Pater, the commune's leader, in front of everyone, for his crime of loving a girl on the surface. He was then taken Under Arsil's Eye, not that he knows it, to be healed and corrected. He's been languishing in this cold cell since then, in a hospital bed. He's in immense pain, going over the incident in his mind again and again, reliving it in nightmares, and waking to worry about Juno and Eve. Surely, they're going to capture Juno and torture or kill her, if they haven't already. Surely, they will turn Eve against him even more than they already have, by labelling him a traitor, a disgusting man who would lie down in filth with vermin.
And there's nothing he can do about it.
He's stuck here, miserable and in pain. He's lost everything; his family, his community, his career, probably the love of his life, and maybe his daughter.
He has no idea how much time passes before they throw another person into the room with him. He was hardly aware there was even a second bed in here.
Tox does not know it yet, but there's a new criminal in town, someone who showed up unannounced and unexplained, which of course was met with confusion and hostile interrogation from... Pretty much everyone. No one in this commune likes outsiders; at best, they will interfere with their way of life and be a bad influence that could guide them astray from Arsil, and at worst, they are spies from the surface, here to infiltrate and destroy their community from the inside. As such, any attempt at reason or trustworthiness the outsider uses is only seen as further proof of trickery.
At first, Rastaban was thrown in jail in the general populace, but once mages detected the strange magic in him, he was taken in for experimentation. And of course, there is little experimentation done in this commune that doesn't require a hospital bed afterwards. That is what lands Rastaban here, next to a green-haired man with bandaged eyes, in a dank cell that smells strongly of rot.
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Date: 2025-12-03 06:16 am (UTC)From:And there's nothing he can do about it.
He's stuck here, miserable and in pain. He's lost everything; his family, his community, his career, probably the love of his life, and maybe his daughter.
He has no idea how much time passes before they throw another person into the room with him. He was hardly aware there was even a second bed in here.
Tox does not know it yet, but there's a new criminal in town, someone who showed up unannounced and unexplained, which of course was met with confusion and hostile interrogation from... Pretty much everyone. No one in this commune likes outsiders; at best, they will interfere with their way of life and be a bad influence that could guide them astray from Arsil, and at worst, they are spies from the surface, here to infiltrate and destroy their community from the inside. As such, any attempt at reason or trustworthiness the outsider uses is only seen as further proof of trickery.
At first, Rastaban was thrown in jail in the general populace, but once mages detected the strange magic in him, he was taken in for experimentation. And of course, there is little experimentation done in this commune that doesn't require a hospital bed afterwards. That is what lands Rastaban here, next to a green-haired man with bandaged eyes, in a dank cell that smells strongly of rot.