[The initial shock is over and now the ache of the ripped muscles is settling, burning, deeper into his body. Cassel's efforts hurt at first and then help, making it constant, making it something he understands. Slevin swallows and tries to swallow the tremor, too, that won't go away. His gut and groin are a mess of pain, too, but he's taken hits before. He can do this.
He knows it won't be this easy, but he takes the time while he has it. Chris is moving, then, and it's not like Slevin didn't know; he did. But the sight of the file - and he knows exactly what it is, knows that even if the him that exists here had managed to get hold of his file and erase parts of it it won't, by now, have gone undetected - seizes something in his chest until he has to look sharply at Cassel.
Trusting himself to have protected himself, the only part of himself that matters now, is the hardest thing he's ever done. He sneers.] , I'm more hands on. You should let me show you. [He won't kill them. As much as he'd like to, he has no more interest in staying on this Barge, in this world, or in adding more weight to his sentence where they came from, than he normally does.
But even though his neck and shoulders ache enough that he's not even certain he can raise his arms properly, he can make them hurt. That much he can definitely do.]
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He knows it won't be this easy, but he takes the time while he has it. Chris is moving, then, and it's not like Slevin didn't know; he did. But the sight of the file - and he knows exactly what it is, knows that even if the him that exists here had managed to get hold of his file and erase parts of it it won't, by now, have gone undetected - seizes something in his chest until he has to look sharply at Cassel.
Trusting himself to have protected himself, the only part of himself that matters now, is the hardest thing he's ever done. He sneers.]
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I'm more hands on. You should let me show you. [He won't kill them. As much as he'd like to, he has no more interest in staying on this Barge, in this world, or in adding more weight to his sentence where they came from, than he normally does.
But even though his neck and shoulders ache enough that he's not even certain he can raise his arms properly, he can make them hurt. That much he can definitely do.]