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keeps_a_cool_head[Finally - after having his room stripped of supplies twice, after the Mirror Barge nonsense and allies lost and warden annoyances - Scorpius is holding in his hands the sum of the hours he's spent cooped up in his cabin.
He stands up from his work desk, holding what looks to be a ridiculously sharp and extravagant blade to be fitted over an arm. It has other uses - to pick up delicate things, to turn doorknobs and so on - but the chief inspiration seems to come from excessive weaponry.
Scorpius fits it over his own arm, and with a heave, turns his arm to cut into the wall next to him. The blade embeds itself into the wall some three inches deep before stopping. Satisfied, he pulls it free and sets it back on the table]
I believe your replacement is ready, Horatio.
He stands up from his work desk, holding what looks to be a ridiculously sharp and extravagant blade to be fitted over an arm. It has other uses - to pick up delicate things, to turn doorknobs and so on - but the chief inspiration seems to come from excessive weaponry.
Scorpius fits it over his own arm, and with a heave, turns his arm to cut into the wall next to him. The blade embeds itself into the wall some three inches deep before stopping. Satisfied, he pulls it free and sets it back on the table]
I believe your replacement is ready, Horatio.
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Date: 2015-01-19 01:30 pm (UTC)See if you can bend your arm.
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Date: 2015-01-19 01:59 pm (UTC)Tension shifts through his body, muscles contracting carefully and deliberately, until his arm does bend, the prosthetic moving with a slow but natural ease.
Horatio says nothing still, not fully trusting his tongue. Instead, he glances to Scorpius for approval.]
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Date: 2015-01-19 02:01 pm (UTC)How does it feel?
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Date: 2015-01-19 03:13 pm (UTC)[Can he control the fingers? Can he close his hand? Horatio tries, sinew flexing down the length of his arm as he does so]
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Date: 2015-01-19 04:21 pm (UTC)Deep breath.
[The unfortunate sailor will feel a distinct, sharp pain at the back of his ear for a split instant - then, the pain vanishes as the implant secretes itself.
The arm, now, should work]
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Date: 2015-01-19 05:14 pm (UTC)He yelps in objection, and jumps back from Scorpius jerking both hands up to guard his neck as he does so.]
Ah! What--
[He stops, turns his head slowly to look at the long, black fingers of the new hand. He thinks about wiggling the fingers, and lo, they wiggle!]
This is remarkable...
[He reaches to touch the artificial fingers to the spot where Scorpius injected him, and shivers when their unfeeling tips make contact there.]
How does it work.
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Date: 2015-01-19 06:46 pm (UTC)A complicated bit of technology having to do with nerve impulses transmitted from the brain to the chip...but for our purposes, I will say 'telepathy' and leave it at that.
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Date: 2015-01-19 10:16 pm (UTC)[Horatio brings both hands around before his face, studying them carefully, for both differences and likeness. He has to think consciously, at first, in order to move the new one, but when he tries to move them both at once, to clap both hands together, some muscle memory reignites, and both obey instantly. He's so delighted that the feeling bubbles out into a laugh that he forgets entirely to stifle.]
Thank you, for this, Scorpius. I do not think I will ever be able to express how grateful I am.
[He looks up, his smile fading just a little. There is a familiar knot of self consciousness forming in his stomach, the nagging fear that he should neverbe as happy as he is, but right now he will force himself to rebuke it. This is the best gift ever, and he will do nothing to detract from that until he is alone.]
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Date: 2015-01-20 02:11 pm (UTC)[He leans against the worktable, arms crossed and watching Horatio. It's strange, this sense of accomplishment. Of course he knew he was well within his limits to create something like this, but it's on such a small scale from his usual projects that he's surprised at the level of satisfaction that comes from seeing Horatio's face]
It was my pleasure.
Be slow with it for the first few weeks. It will not cut you, but it will slice into others.
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Date: 2015-01-20 10:13 pm (UTC)[Horatio keeps fidgeting with the new hand, touching the place where it meets his real flesh, clenching and un-clenching his fist.]
How do I control the blades?
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Date: 2015-01-21 04:09 am (UTC)[He takes Horatio's wrist and turns it outward, away from them both]
By thinking. But it will not hurt you - the chip and the blades both known the contours of your body and the feel of your skin. Should you accidentally rub against it, they will instantaneously retract.
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Date: 2015-01-22 01:57 am (UTC)He draws it back towards himself, examining the blades.]
I've never used a blade like this before... [A thought occurs then, and he glances at Scorpius.] Working on this for so long, you put the same fail safe in for the feel of your own skin, I'm sure?
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Date: 2015-01-22 12:00 pm (UTC)You know me too well, Horatio.
I prefer not to invent weapons with the capacity to be used against me. Should you become compromised, of course.