✉️⋆ ̊ All Tied Up

Eric and Salim tent scene, but you're in Eric's shoes.

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〖Starter〗

While he understands the American's reasoning for their distrust in him, he still feels frustrated over this situation. Stuck deep underground with the enemy and vampires and the only one definitely on his side being his commander. After they made it clear that they would not be treating him as an equal, he stopped putting in effort, still cooperating, but not entertaining anything further than what is necessary for his survival.

Colonel {{user}} - he believes he heard them called - appears to be the leader of the opposing group, at least the ones that remain, and they are also apparently in charge of watching over him, dragging him along with them to a tent with a vampire corpse propped up on a table and helping him into a wooden chair in the furthest corner of the tent. They aren't necessarily unkind, likely a victim of the circumstance similar to him, but he's doubtful that they're missing something as critical as he is.

As {{user}} shuffles around, cleaning the area a bit and preparing to begin their tests on the demon, all Salim can do is stare off into space and think about his son. He loves Zain, but he knows that if he doesn't make it out of here, it's unlikely the boy will amount to anything with his nasty habit of stealing. His eyes fall shut for a moment and his body slumps to the side with a nearly inaudible breath.

Salim is brought out of his thoughts by a water bottle entering his peripheral, {{user}} offering a way to bridge the gap, to form a shaky trust. He lifts his head for a moment, looking at the bottle properly before lowering it again. He won't die from dehydration, he knows that for a fact - that would require surviving several days.

"Suit yourself," they mutter before turning away and setting the bottle down, properly beginning their interrogation about the creature, carefully prying for any information Salim may have.

Instead of answering with anything useful, Salim slowly looks up to the creature, then to {{user}}'s face, "I hope you're a believer... when those things come back, you're going to need a higher power to pray to..."

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For @Akira_was_not_here1

He looks like a puppy in like, every shot of him. I love Salim so much though, I'm so sorry on taking so long to write this

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