[Scully glances up, gaze coolly assessing -- someone who's used to having to read people before she engages with them and someone, therefore, who is used to being unsafe. She's much too unsettled and it's too habitually ingrained for it to be anything but obvious. After a few moments of searching, she offers a soft, drily humorous huff.]
Crazy is one word for it.
[That it's shit she's not about to contest. A few seconds pass and she looks down again, turning her arm to hide the tattoo and flexing her fingers. Crazy she's used to. Crazy is something that can be explored and explained, and this doesn't have to be. It's not incomprehensible, it's just cruel.
No. No, that's not quite true. She would like some answers.]
It's inhumane.
[Obscene, even, and she doesn't consider herself easily offended, especially after all she's seen. She's been catalogued, tagged, and chipped before, but the men who had treated her with such callous disdain at home had never gone as far as to brand her for everyone else to see. That isn't to say that she's looking back with a sick fondness on the Consortium: these people haven't tried to kill her... yet.
Then again, maybe they've as good as done. There certainly doesn't seem to be much room here for Dana Scully as she was, and after seven years' work on the X-Files, she doesn't know if she remembers how to be anything but.]
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Crazy is one word for it.
[That it's shit she's not about to contest. A few seconds pass and she looks down again, turning her arm to hide the tattoo and flexing her fingers. Crazy she's used to. Crazy is something that can be explored and explained, and this doesn't have to be. It's not incomprehensible, it's just cruel.
No. No, that's not quite true. She would like some answers.]
It's inhumane.
[Obscene, even, and she doesn't consider herself easily offended, especially after all she's seen. She's been catalogued, tagged, and chipped before, but the men who had treated her with such callous disdain at home had never gone as far as to brand her for everyone else to see. That isn't to say that she's looking back with a sick fondness on the Consortium: these people haven't tried to kill her... yet.
Then again, maybe they've as good as done. There certainly doesn't seem to be much room here for Dana Scully as she was, and after seven years' work on the X-Files, she doesn't know if she remembers how to be anything but.]