Shade leaned his head back and sighed,his neck showing scarls lining along his markings that ran along his cheeks,down and then along his collarbone and across his chest. He closed those ruby red eyes,not moving to push Riley away. His horns hit the wall when he'd leaned his head back and he seemed just fine with it,their smooth black surfaces shiny,sorta. He seemed just fine with the sarounding darkness.

Riley hesitantly rests his head on Shade's shoulder, curling up next to him. He didn't know Shade well, but he liked the dragon child. Shade wasn't trying to kill Riley, so Riley took that as a good sign. Also, the darkness was less scary and the tight space in the cell seemed less daunting than it had been before. If Riley had any other cellmate, Riley was sure he would still be freaking out in a corner, hoping that the lights would go on and he could get out of the cell. But he wasn't feeling as panicked or desperate, and so that was good. Shade was good. Life was good...
For now.
Because for now, he could forget.

Shade would have scoffed and known that Riley was as crazy as him if he'd known that Riley thought him good. But for now he nodded off,wing curling around the boy gently. He had no real feelings often,and he didn't feel anything for Riley.But things might change sometime later,but that depended. Right now he rather hated everything,life and this place and everyone here...but for some reason...not Riley. And for that he hated himself.

Next came the jeers, the tuneful taunts of "new fish" and "you better cry, they're coming for you," which punctuated the sobbing like sharp blasts from trumpets. As the callous taunts grew in volume, so did the cries, swelling into desperate wails hurled out into the artificial night mixed with calls for help and pleas that were heartbreaking to hear. Somewhere, somebody was singing a song, his deep voice a bizarre bass line to the symphony, a mournful cello that kept the two halves of the orchestra in harmony. It went on for who knows how long, rising gradually to a crescendo of screams and whistles and sobs and songs that took hold of Victoria, forcing a cry from her own traitorous throat. For what she knew would be the first time of many, she reluctantly added her voice to that symphony, crying and screaming until, exhausted, the music died and the prison once again found silence. Pretty sure I don't have to tell you that Victoria didn't get much sleep that night.

Cole was quietly muttering a bunch of.....Shakespeare? Yeah. Probably. The screaming was annoying. It could be worse. They could be in a force labor camp under military rule.....
Although he did let out a groan or two of his own.


Lio listend for one minute and then looked over and noticed Nicote making his own ruckus.....aka doing all the noisy work of his "assignements" during the noise-time. Because Nicote was not the kind of person who liked yelling and screaming. He did it onc eor twice and got bore. Sur she kissed his fmaily but he was still able to do what he loved best. Lio buried his head into his bunk and did his own breakdown there. Which Nicote pretende don't to notice.

Riley wakes up again when the noises get really loud, for a moment forgetting where he was. The noise was definitely not natural. Riley places his hands over his ears, and tries to block it all out, determined to go back to sleep in peace, but he stayed wide awake until the whole cacophany of noises died down. Riley stayed awake for what seemed like forever afterwards too, fear crashing down on him all over again.

Shade had as well covered his ears but his dragon hearing only made it louder. "Shut up!" He had growled,back arching as he shoved his head to the wall. He was only angered more by the noise. But soon as it all died down,he relaxed but didn't sleep,glaring forward in the dark just flat out angry. But he kept a wing around Riley to try and help him even though his own anger was swelling like bomb about to burst.

Riley flinches when Shade growled to shut up, and Riley tried to be quieter than he already was. The dark held all sorts of crazy things, Riley was stuck inside a small cage - yes, a cage - and the eerie silence the noises left when cutted off didn't help soothe his nerves.

She closes her eyes and hugs Elzay.

Shade could feel how bothered and scared the boy was and he tried to help,though of course he probably wouldn't be able to. He wrapped his wings around Riley and,looking away from his direction,started a deep and resonating pur.