Darkness. Screaming. The sound of stone crumbling and the howl of wind— fighting the leaden weight in your limbs and the cotton in your head and stumbling to your feet, swaying. The whole world swaying dizzily with you as you drag yourself for the door—
It nearly hits you as it slams inward, and oh. Everything is so much louder now. You can smell blood, and bitter cold over the hospital smells of drugs and antiseptics, and—
(Fellow hybrid; occasionally sweet, mostly awkward; bitterly tired and carrying the blatant marks of abuse, just as you all did in different ways— you’d liked him, maybe had a crush on him—)
But— at the same time it’s him, it’s not. He’s grown huge, monstrous— it might just be the drugs but you think you can see something in his forehead, something that both draws and repels you at the same time.
You can hear him scream.
Ice races over every surface away from him, and— you bolt, mind blank with panic. You have to get out. You have to get out, there’s rubble and blood and quickly-freezing bodies everywhere and if you stop for even a second you’ll be one of them, but you are so fucking tired— but you have to— you can’t die here like this—
Re: EVE'S ROOM
Darkness. Screaming. The sound of stone crumbling and the howl of wind— fighting the leaden weight in your limbs and the cotton in your head and stumbling to your feet, swaying. The whole world swaying dizzily with you as you drag yourself for the door—
It nearly hits you as it slams inward, and oh. Everything is so much louder now. You can smell blood, and bitter cold over the hospital smells of drugs and antiseptics, and—
—the whole fucking roof abruptly peels off.
You see— Gale?
(Fellow hybrid; occasionally sweet, mostly awkward; bitterly tired and carrying the blatant marks of abuse, just as you all did in different ways— you’d liked him, maybe had a crush on him—)
But— at the same time it’s him, it’s not. He’s grown huge, monstrous— it might just be the drugs but you think you can see something in his forehead, something that both draws and repels you at the same time.
You can hear him scream.
Ice races over every surface away from him, and— you bolt, mind blank with panic. You have to get out. You have to get out, there’s rubble and blood and quickly-freezing bodies everywhere and if you stop for even a second you’ll be one of them, but you are so fucking tired— but you have to— you can’t die here like this—