*TC and Maru exchange looks*
TC: I'll go. Stay with Pips.
*Maru nods and TC shifts to follow*
Wing: *will lead the way. It's not a big place, and when they said Evac was moving they weren't kidding, the evidence is all over the place. Wing will pull out three empty cubes and move to a dispenser.* Would you prefer to fill them?
TC: *hesitates, then moves to do so, half to make sure nothing's slipped into them, half because...he "should" be the one doing the work and serving*
Wing: *will give him space* You know, friend, if I meant to harm you or turn you in o wouldn't have let any of you wake without restraints, or I'd have called those mechs over when I first found you. I truly mean you no harm.
TC: .............. *won't look at Wing, softly* I've heard of fraggers seeming to help runaways only to turn on them after the fact. It's funnier or something after you've let your guard down and actually thought someone would help you. *tone of voice is that he doesn't believe Wing would...but he also can't afford to just assume he won't* I've tried to escape...probably /hundreds/ of times over the vorns. If I've learned one thing in all this time, it's that once you're a slave, you cease to be a person, and no free mech would risk joining you in your pit, even if they /do/ want to help.
Wing: *softly* I'm sorry you've been so hurt. *he'll step back up by TC to take two of the cubes so he can fill the last. He keeps them held where TC can see them.*
TC: *grimaces* You'd probably be surprised what mechs will do to you just because they can, because it's not illegal since you're just a /thing/ now to do with as they please. The unrelenting atrocities /break/ most people. *lets Wing take the cubes with a nod of silent thanks*
Wing: I can imagine, but you're right, it probably would surprise me. *once TC has the last cube filled Wing will lead him back to where Maru and Pips are.*
Evac: *has finished working on Pips already, she wasn't /too/ badly hurt. He's had her go through the motions, making sure she can move just fine, and is now fussing over Maru again, having him move about and transform to make sure nothing catches and that all is repaired.*
Maru: *knows that he wasn't too badly off, all things considered…his main problem has just been that any damage he /did/ take didn't repair itself like Cybertronian bodies somehow have the ability to do – he can't transform with the collar, and it jams or offlines a lot of his specialized circuitry, but otherwise he's feeling /great/*
