He could help himself if he were so inclined, but he isn't, so the look on his face goes from attentive listener, to offended (not at the words spoken, but what it means to him, so far, in his understanding), to horrified, to annoyed, all painted across the canvas of his face. Behind him, his tail starts to twitch, the tip of it rising to thwap back against the ground. Before long, the length of his tail shivers so that the same twitch starts at the base of his tail and travels down, his fur bristling as much as it can when its substantial enough to flop over normally, and carries a motion like a wave that rolls down until culminating in another thwap of his tail against the ground.
"Oh, I can make sense of it," he says, hands lowered to his lap and curling into fists. White knuckled, he frowns harder. "You're making sense, but that's so messed up. That's worse than I thought it was."
A pause, and a twitch of his fists, though he fails to open them.
"Not the SCA, the tether, I mean. We're not just abducted. Our, ugh. Essence, consciousness, whatever words you want to use or I can, that was abducted. If this tether works like the stable tethers you know."
A further pause, because he's starting to let his anger into his voice, and that's not helpful; it's not Ten-Nank's fault, it's the Voidtrecker Express's whatever mechanism stealing all of them in the first place. Fuck that!
"Wait, shit." Unfisted hands raise, and while he leaves his SCA on his kneeling lap, he holds both palms out to Ten-Nank. "What happens when your body's destroyed while you're tethered to a void vessel?"
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"Oh, I can make sense of it," he says, hands lowered to his lap and curling into fists. White knuckled, he frowns harder. "You're making sense, but that's so messed up. That's worse than I thought it was."
A pause, and a twitch of his fists, though he fails to open them.
"Not the SCA, the tether, I mean. We're not just abducted. Our, ugh. Essence, consciousness, whatever words you want to use or I can, that was abducted. If this tether works like the stable tethers you know."
A further pause, because he's starting to let his anger into his voice, and that's not helpful; it's not Ten-Nank's fault, it's the Voidtrecker Express's whatever mechanism stealing all of them in the first place. Fuck that!
"Wait, shit." Unfisted hands raise, and while he leaves his SCA on his kneeling lap, he holds both palms out to Ten-Nank. "What happens when your body's destroyed while you're tethered to a void vessel?"