No Hand on the Reins

Adam Some things you do just to see how bad they'll make you feel Sometimes you try to freeze time 'til the slots are a blur of spinning wheels At the tap on his boot Adam jumped and looked up, raising his head from the pillow. There was Kiada, the woman he didn't know. Only knew her name because he'd heard Amalia address her. He supposed if they were going to be imprisoned here indefinitely he'd get to know them both much better eventually, so he figured he may as well begin to introduce himself. He sat up, and only then fully processed what Kiada was telling him. "She got out?! And she...didn't take you? Shit, that's cold." Adam had thought Amalia and Kiada had had something close to a mother-daughter relationship, not one where one would just run off without the other. Then he was asked what to do, which he found..bizarre. No one ever asked Adam for advice so this was rather new territory for him. "Uh...well I was gonna lay here and wait it out, maybe nap a bit...what else have we got to do?" He struggled with the effort of not saying an innuendo here but managed it, instead just shifted back and patted the bed. "...I..guess you can join me here if you want." But I am just a broken machine And I do things that I don't really mean