[open]

[altusimperius]

WHO: Bene and you
WHAT: He's free! ...ish.
WHEN: Haring
WHERE: A room in the former Templar tower, always guarded.
NOTES: anyone who wants to see him will need clearance, and there will always be a Templar present!

Though technically Benedict is able to leave his newly-assigned room in the Gallows, he doesn't. Won't, rather, which is a strange decision considering that his formal incarceration has ended, and there's no reason he should have to stay hidden away in one small space indefinitely.

But he does. For reasons that are his own, Bene seems reluctant to go anywhere or be seen by anyone, preferring instead to sit by his window for hours, book on his lap, and watch the courtyard below.
Receiving all meals at his chambers, the opportunity to bathe is the only way to get him out the door. It's one he takes often, as often as he can, perhaps in an effort to make up for lost time. He even gets to shave, once a week, with supervision.

Benedict may not be in the dungeon anymore, but he cannot and will not forget that he is still a prisoner. A prisoner whose life has been threatened more than once, from both without and within the Inquisition. It's a step up, but a step up from a cesspit is still mud.

Comments

[altusimperius]

To be fair, Bene thinks most people are idiots. But Simon is high up there on his list.

"No," he snaps back, watching the Templar carefully, "the fact you don't know is evidence in itself, unless you're toying with me. Either way, I want no part of it. I want someone else."

[paladingus]

"You don't get anyone else," he says curtly. "We don't have an endless fountain of templars so you can pick and choose the ones you don't have strange little grudges against like you're ordering off a menu. Take the bath or leave it, but I'm bound to stand here regardless until the next guard comes to relieve me, and there's nothing either of us gets to do about it."

He'll take up position outside the door again, arms folded and quietly seething. Surely, he thinks, surely none of the other templars here have done anything to Bene that he hasn't, anything he wouldn't have. Defending himself and his commander from magical attack, in the only split-second way he knew how to--was he supposed to do otherwise?

Perhaps, in the eyes of the prisoner and the Inquisition, he was. Just as Cade was.

[altusimperius]

None of the Templars have been especially gentle with him, but Simon and Wren both stick out in Bene's memory, alongside Captain Norrington, for being among the first to leave an impression. ... a bad one.

"I'll leave it," he decides, "stay out." He doesn't want the big oaf in here staring at him any more than he wants to be naked in front of him.