Before I go to heaven, I gotta park my bike

[arkbound]

This is a post with a whole bunch of au prompts with various characters. If you want to see anyone not here or a different scenario, feel free to also use this as a call-me-out post for anyone on my muse list.

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[neverlofty]

Her people cross Covenant ground only at great need, and almost never alone. They've chosen ground for themselves that lets them hold an easy peace: Far away enough from hostile territory not to have to keep their hackles up day and night, small enough that even her ragged crew can make interlopers think twice about their chances of crossing unharmed.

Which is to say: Like hell would she go to the Covenant, whatever her told her. Sure, it'd worked out when they'd had a common enemy; but only because, for a brief time, her enemy's death had been more important to them than hers. That wasn't, like, a basis for healthy ongoing communication.

She can hear his heartbeat if she listens close, hear it rise and fall with the waves of his tension. She listens; her expression flattens at monster. She crosses her arms.

"Could be she just fucked off," she says flatly. "Could be she found the monstrous life better. Is that so unheard of?"

[arkbound]

Dominic's eyes widen. The possibility of her leaving voluntarily for something like that hasn't even crossed his mind before now. It's not only unheard of, it's unthinkable.

He's thinking about it now. "I suppose that's something I'll keep my eyes open for." Not that he knows anyone outside the human population other than Murphy herself.

"If so, there will be others from the Covenant looking for her." It might be better if Dominic finds her first. He hates not knowing if he's being paranoid or realistic about it.

[neverlofty]

The look Murphy gives him is so unimpressed it crosses over into incredulous. "Which would seriously complicate my involvement. I'm not gonna take chances on running into more of you. One's enough."

The dim streetlight overhead throws odd shadows over her face as she looks up at him, makes her eyes stand out a little too bright. "I'm serious. You think it's possible? You think there's any chance she left willingly? If she fucked off on her own, I'll start asking around the clans, see if somebody's turned her recently. But if the Covenant's responsible-- what would they do with her? What do you people do with dissenters?"

She's thinking aloud, rapid-fire, but the questions are important. She's not sure precisely when she accepted the fact of her involvement as a given. Apparently that's happened, though.

[arkbound]

A month or two ago, Dominic might have said that the Covenant had no dissenters. After all, what could there be to dissent from? They had a cause, and he'd believed it to be a holy one. He still felt slightly sick, to think of doubting it.

And yet he knew that it wasn't as simple as that.

"I think that generally they'd work to convince her of the error of her ways. If she shows up in a couple of months, back to believing in the cause, that's what they do." How is something he's trying to think about now, but would also rather not find out for himself.