[Splat]

ooc: MM has disappeared again and PV hasn't posted here for a long while so I'm starting to worry about the lab.
And as Venks said, we do NOT need another animal rampage in the factory thank you very much.

IC:
Dionysia was about to make a distainful comment to Scri about interrupting people and eing patient and s on, but remembered in the nick of time that she was supposed to be acting like a bimbo, so she asked in a concerned voice, "Hey, is your throat ok? You got a cold or somethin'?"

At that point 'Nat' approached her and greeted her, "Heya, Nat!" She replied cheerfully, "You sleep well?"

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Jim was taken by surprise by Anni's sudden departure and it was a moment before his mind caught up and he stood up and ran after her, out of the cafeteria and into the hall, where there was no sign of her. After a moment's hesitation, he hurried off in the vague direction of the grinders, thinking she might have gone upstairs to the R+R.

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Anni had in fact run out of the main doors into the stockyards. She ran all the way to her garden where she threw herself down among the sparse trees. She had chosen this spot for the plants that grew there, but now as she looked around they all seemed ugly and dying. The burnt patch where Nova had forced her to kil a scrab stood out starkly from the dirt, and the old, rusty mechanical pump her friends had salvaged which stood next to the garden seemed only to draw her attention to the fact that she was a slave of the great machine.
Suddenly she felt she would rather be anywhere in the world but here. SHe felt Nova's presence in her mind again.
"Please, I don't want to hurt anyone!" She sobbed allowed.
Nova's voice, deeper, crueler, came from her mouth, "Do you want to be a slave all your life? If you want to get out, if you really want to, then you need me. Only I can free us!"
"Why do you hurt me like this?"
"Because you're pathetic! Because if I leave this up to you we'll be a slave forever!"
Anni broke down into tears. She dragged herself from her patch and slid into one of the crevices in the earth of the stockyards, hoping no one would find her. She was so scared, scared of Nova and what she would do if anyone found them.