outdistanced | turbo heaven 🌼 marcoh

[ She really draws so much cute gay CtC stuff and then the canon be like.

Anyway Marcoh is fucking stunned. ]

I'm sorry?

[ Obviously not in the way of actually feeling sorry, it's definitely the what the FUCK? kind. ]

[ flinches. ]

That- That wasn't supposed to happen.

[ not that he had any say, let alone a way to stop it. ]

What kind of woman carves up her own child for everyone to see as punishment?

[ HUH??? Wasn't the Tower supposed to be a safe place Laurence??? This isn't accusatory btw. Just. So baffled and shocked here. ]

Madam, I guess? But she's never done anything like that before.

...Terror is not trust -- that is the difference between a protector and a tyrant.

[ You do know that? ]

...Yeah. I know.

How long ago was this?

[ don't ask me to put timelines to ctc fuck uhhh throws darts ]

A few weeks. Iris left the Tower, like... the day after it happened. He got healed up somehow.

[ Shakes Vel upside down. ]

Left, or escaped?

He was kidnapped, actually - by that guy with the pink eyes.

Is that what Madam told you? No offence, but it doesn't sound like a good plan to carve him up in front of everybody as punishment for letting an outsider in, heal him up, then let him get kidnapped by that same guy.

No, I didn't hear it from Madam.

[ there's a bite to it now, offended. he'd always been a little more wary of madam than most of the kids his age, but even if he wasn't, how could he really believe her after that display? ]

She didn't let that happen. They left on their own, and she's been freaking out ever since.

...I just would not blame that kid for wanting to leave after that.

[ The abuse is definitely one thing. The absolute humiliation is just. Damn. ]

Yeah, well. I didn't, either. If I'd known that guy with the pink eyes was a criminal, I would've done more, but - I didn't know until after they were already gone.

What would you have tried to do?

...It doesn't matter. It's not like I can change it now.

[ he has no idea what he'd have done, anyway. ]

...

Do you still feel safe there?

[ With concern for Laurence, specifically. ]

[ hesitating. ]

No. But I can't leave yet.

Why yet?

Do I need to count the reasons?

[ sighs and counts them off on his fingers. ]

We don't know where Iris is yet. I still need to work on my powers. I don't have anywhere else to go right now. And even if I did, if I go missing, Madam's going to notice. And there are spawncampers everywhere outside of the Tower.

What am I supposed to do? Charge out there there and get myself killed because I can't teleport away fast enough?

[ he doesn't want to think about what that would do to iris if he found out. that idiot never really stopped treating laurence like they were still friends. ]

Are you not allowed to leave the Tower?

[ Who cares what Madam thinks what the hell. But other than that, the way he didn't ask about Iris here but Laurence brought him up anyway. ]

I was asking for your own safety. Did you want to go looking for Iris?

We can only leave if we have clearance to, which I don't. And Madam's known me for pretty much my whole life - she'd know something's up if I tried to get it.

[ also listen this is just how he is he talks about iris so much and then turns around like no!!! we're not friends i don't like that guy or care about him!!! okay, dumbass ]

I am going to look for him. He got away from Madam, but he's not out of trouble.

He is your friend?

[ The way Laurence got a photo of Iris for Christmas but never showed Marcoh so he doesn't know it's that guy. ]

...We haven't been friends for years. But that doesn't mean I want to see the idiot get hurt.

It sounds like you have your work cut out for you.

But with the right determination, anything can be done.

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