One of the Men

[Doomguy]

The information seemed to really weigh down on Ratione, although his ability to comprehend it was a bit of a sticking point for the alien soldier. While Janna had brief moments of frustrations with this explanation, she could understand since she was once as as new to this land as he was now. It was never a conversation that happened. Choprot didn’t like using words with more than two syllables.She had assumed that Ratione was from a more “advanced” universe, but then there was only so much you could figure from someone’s underwear.

Well, you can tell a lot about a particular thing, but that’s not what Janna wanted to think about right now.

“Is there a way to escape this place?” The alien asked, his eyes closed as he pounded on what he had learned. This seemed so surreal, and only increasingly so. If it meant anything was beyond him, and his concern now was on the small creature ahead of him.

“Here? Yeah, these door hinges don’t look very tough” Janna’s interest perked as the idea of a prison break sparked the pirate in her. It was exciting, an action packed escape from inside the famed walled city of Camelot. Dodging guards and crossbow bolts. She was glad she had gone with date thing now “Just a little ‘pressure’ with big birtha here and-”

“I meant this “world’. Although I appreciate the offer” Ratione corrected, he stuck to the previous word more out of having something to compare it to even if it wasn’t the right one. The yordle’s posture drooped, both from her suggestion being shot down and the rather depressing answer she didn’t want to give.

“No. Not that anyone knows, anyway. A few crazy people try every once in awhile, but we don’t know if they’ve succeeded or just died” She answered with a little pout. Being the barer of bad news was never something she liked to do, even though she had to do it so often. She toughed it out, as she usually did, and changed the subject “But hey, you’re a prime! That means you're lucky”

The knight looked around at the stone and iron walls of the cell around him and then stared back at the quartermaster, with an unimpressed look that would have been funny if the man was not so serious. .

“Hey, you’re still relatively lucky” Janna pointed out. There was a brief silence, before Janna thought of something that might be more important: “So what about you? What were you like before you came here?” The man thought about the question, but a small smile across his face seemed to alive some of both of their worry. 

“I was a soldier, a Knight of my people. I had fought to advance the reach of my people, and defended them in their time of need.” Ratione told and reminisced on his past.

“I was an academy student” Janna replied. She wanted to see where this conversation went, even if it went nowhere “Studied mechanics. When I got pulled in, I was made the Quartermaster of the ship since I was the only one who need how to fix the guns”

“That is a position with a lot of responsibility, especially for someone so young” While it seemed like the stating the obvious, he was genuinely surprised at her rank, and perhaps respected that.

“Pff, young. I just look that way because Yordles are short and have big eyes” Not that Janna cared that much. She was proud to be so trusted by the captain. Even it that was more because the rest of the crew was so untrustworthy.

“But what are you going to do now?” Sh asked, and looked forward to the answer.