Jan 23, 2011 19:58
[There is an explosion, forceful enough to turn the communicator on]
By the--
[Whoever was talking decided not to finish the thought, because now they were running, if the sound of skidding feet was anything to go by. The video shows nothing but dark red.]
Damnation!
[There's the sound of a door opening and slamming shut.]
[Nothing but heavy breathing.]
[A thud of a body hitting the floor. Something whispered softly, maybe a curse. The communicator falls to the floor]
[It's dark, but one can make out the outline of a relatively unmistakable elf, ears twitching, cradling its arm to its chest on the floor, trying to stay propped up by its unhurt elbow]
[The elbow fails and the body falls fully to the floor with a deceptively soft bump. The force knocks the communicator down face-up so there's nothing but a dark ceiling to look at]
[There is the outline of something swishing in front of the camera briefly, but it recedes]
[The breathing has ceased. There are no signs of life besides. The breathing does not start again]
[The feed times out]
[[OOC: For those who don't know, Vaarsuvius has turned into a cat. Not that it's obvious to the characters...]]
c: hiei,
vaarsuvius