#and yet another recycled open aaahhh

[paramounticebound]

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Merciless and swift, as all conquests should be, left him with no sense of pride. It was a calculated acquisition, and Khan had destroyed enough in his life to find little pleasure in it. Another cycle, another aspect of war, another code in the machine’s programming. Though he was quite alive, bleeding and breathing like the rest of them, even if his creation had been manufactured.

Simply, the ship had been in his way. That was how it started– a small offense that branched into hostility, and now that the crew had been disposed of, the time to restock supplies came to fruition. The augment hadn’t bothered with a life scan, knowing without a shred of uncertainty that he could dispatch any remaining brave, foolish souls. He had not, however, expected to find someone in the brig– or whatever hellish comparison could be made.

It was obvious that they hardly posed a threat, bruised and bloody on the steel floor, unable to create much more than a strangled breath. Curiosity, muted as it was, passed through him. What had they done to entice the rage of those supposedly merciful people, the ones who clamored over one another to escape the wrath of his dreadnought? Khan doubted that they realized the goliath was manned by him alone– for now.

He ought to simply leave them to their own devices, likely death, and move on like the wraith he was.

He ought to do many things.

   “Do you,” a low baritone from the depths of him, similarly unused though not to neglect. He knelt next to them so that they could hear him. It occurred to him that the other might struggle to answer, if they so chose, but in the vein of endurance, one tended to find a way. “… want to die here?”

   “Or do you still have the desire to live?”

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