Though I Have Bad Dreams, Battlestar Galactica, Tyrol/Cally, safeaella_ireneApril 8 2007, 16:30:28 UTC
Cally can't sleep.
No, that's not true. Cally doesn't want to sleep. Because sleeping means dreaming. And dreaming means blood. Blood and flesh in her mouth, on her tongue, and she nearly choked when she did it, and she still doesn’t quite know how.
“The masseter muscle in the jaw is the strongest in the human body,” Cottle said when he was fixing her up, “It can generate two hundred pounds per square inch of biting force, and nine pounds of force can tear off a human ear.”
But she still doesn’t know how the hell she managed it, how she ever managed to sink her teeth into the man’s ear, and bring it off. She doesn’t want to know
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Re: Though I Have Bad Dreams, Battlestar Galactica, Tyrol/Cally, safeoxoniensisApril 8 2007, 16:33:57 UTC
Beautiful! Cally's fear, and her shame for feeling it after so many others have gone through worse, and Chief's kindness all seem so very in character.
Re: Though I Have Bad Dreams, Battlestar Galactica, Tyrol/Cally, safelyssieApril 9 2007, 01:23:54 UTC
And now that I am not running out the door with half-wet nail polish, I can finish reading and properly give feedback.
This is awesome. For one thing, it deals with the trauma Cally went through--something the show never did. For another, there's just--the little things. Like how everyone else has moved on from Cally's quarters, and Chief's sister, and Cottle talking about the force required to bite an ear off.
No, that's not true. Cally doesn't want to sleep. Because sleeping means dreaming. And dreaming means blood. Blood and flesh in her mouth, on her tongue, and she nearly choked when she did it, and she still doesn’t quite know how.
“The masseter muscle in the jaw is the strongest in the human body,” Cottle said when he was fixing her up, “It can generate two hundred pounds per square inch of biting force, and nine pounds of force can tear off a human ear.”
But she still doesn’t know how the hell she managed it, how she ever managed to sink her teeth into the man’s ear, and bring it off. She doesn’t want to know ( ... )
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This is awesome. For one thing, it deals with the trauma Cally went through--something the show never did. For another, there's just--the little things. Like how everyone else has moved on from Cally's quarters, and Chief's sister, and Cottle talking about the force required to bite an ear off.
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(PS - nice icon ;)
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(And thank you for making the icon)
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