Kent/Feldspar
Dec. 13th, 2024 07:37 pm"Just once more," they had said when Ellie's team petitioned for it. She was busy with Palmer, falling in love with science while he fell in love with God, and Kent was left to pick up the pieces. He wanted another damn go at it. The Machine had a pricetag in the billions; it was begging to be used again.
But they wouldn't let Ellie go. They wouldn't let just anyone go. They wanted someone who knew how it worked, who had been there from the beginning, but someone who isn't completely taken in by Ellie's words.
That leads them to a dozen people and they end up with Kent. He's blind, but that's not what decides it. They claim that he wouldn't hallucinate the way Ellie did. That he has a unique perspective.
And, he's already proven himself steady and loyal.
He experiences it all the way that Ellie does, but something goes wrong on the other end. Maybe another terrorist attack. Maybe not. All he knows is that he's in the sphere and then, suddenly, he's floating, unable to find his footing until a great crash and he slams into the bottom of the machine.
He groans, pulling his helmet on with a grunt and a wince.
"Fuck this," he mutters, finding the edge of the sphere with his hands. There was a door there somewhere. He just - has to find it.
But they wouldn't let Ellie go. They wouldn't let just anyone go. They wanted someone who knew how it worked, who had been there from the beginning, but someone who isn't completely taken in by Ellie's words.
That leads them to a dozen people and they end up with Kent. He's blind, but that's not what decides it. They claim that he wouldn't hallucinate the way Ellie did. That he has a unique perspective.
And, he's already proven himself steady and loyal.
He experiences it all the way that Ellie does, but something goes wrong on the other end. Maybe another terrorist attack. Maybe not. All he knows is that he's in the sphere and then, suddenly, he's floating, unable to find his footing until a great crash and he slams into the bottom of the machine.
He groans, pulling his helmet on with a grunt and a wince.
"Fuck this," he mutters, finding the edge of the sphere with his hands. There was a door there somewhere. He just - has to find it.
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Date: 2025-08-23 02:54 pm (UTC)That's for later. Or Lapis.
"How did you end up there, Felds?"
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Date: 2025-08-23 07:32 pm (UTC)“I wanted to see how far I could go,” they finally admit. “Our ships had only ever gotten past the ice field, and after riding cyclones I was feeling pretty invincible. I flew inside the center of the Bramble and that’s when I ran into one of the anglerfish. Wasn’t expecting it - definitely not one that big. It chased me down and I crashed.”
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Date: 2025-08-23 10:08 pm (UTC)And maybe, once upon a time, Kent would have been angry. If they had come home, Kent would have been furious. But he's not anymore. Time has given him perspective. He touches their arm again.
"Sounds like an adventure," he says and he means it.
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Date: 2025-08-23 10:40 pm (UTC)“Yeah,” they say with a laugh, eyes completely hollow, “greatest adventure of my life.”
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Date: 2025-08-23 10:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-08-24 12:20 am (UTC)“Will you? I just…I’ve been waking up not knowing where I am. It’d be nice to have you here.”
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Date: 2025-08-24 08:59 pm (UTC)"Of course," he says with a relieved sigh. He doesn't even realize he's doing it.
He hums softly.
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Date: 2025-08-24 11:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-08-24 11:53 pm (UTC)Kent stays, the hum turning to a nonsense song. But when they start to toss and turn, he stands up quickly, using his hand to navigate through the room to find Gneiss.
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Date: 2025-08-25 12:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-08-25 02:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-08-25 02:41 am (UTC)They figure Kent’s be camping out in this room for a while.
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Date: 2025-08-26 01:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-08-26 01:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-08-26 02:04 am (UTC)"Hey," he says softly. "You're awake. You're alright."
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Date: 2025-08-26 02:17 am (UTC)Feldspar blinks in disbelief, reaching out to grab one of his hands in both of theirs.
“What are you doing here? How did you-”
But then they remember. They remember the days running into each other and catching condensation from pine needles and eating the bugs they’d caught. They remember the crash and the screech of the anglerfish.
A son catches in their throat, and then a scream. It all comes racing back to them, all the loneliness and guilt and horror, and they sob and yell and shiver, everything hitting them all at once.
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Date: 2025-08-26 02:35 am (UTC)Kent flinches just once and then he's crawling onto the bed immediately, his arms around Feldspar to hold them firmly but without suffocating them. He just wants to protect them from whatever it is that's going on in their mind.
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Date: 2025-08-26 02:46 am (UTC)They don’t even realize that Kent is there holding them, not at first, but then they start to lean against him, body calming enough to accept the embrace.
The door opens and Gneiss rushes into the room. “They can hear them. The others. I couldn’t lie to them anymore.”
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Date: 2025-08-26 02:48 am (UTC)And he doesn't know who he's talking to anymore.
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Date: 2025-08-26 02:26 pm (UTC)It’s Lapis, who had clearly been in the middle of something as they shrug off their jetpack and run to the bed.
“What’s going on?”
Feldspar can see the worry in their eyes.
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Date: 2025-08-27 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-08-27 01:47 am (UTC)Whether they mean just Feldspar or both Feldspar and Kent is left ambiguous.
Feldspar finds they can’t even bring themselves to reassure Lapis. They’ve all been half dead and alone for what felt like years.
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Date: 2025-08-27 01:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-08-27 02:29 am (UTC)These are the only people who have seen Feldspar so vulnerable, and even then they knew they’d been cocky and insufferably brave around Lapis and Kent still.
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Date: 2025-08-27 02:31 am (UTC)"You're alright," Kent murmurs softly. "Or - you will be. One day."
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