interlude dream; nought can deform the human race

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WARNING for some gore! May talk about brainwashing in the comments, so if that makes you uneasy, proceed with caution.

Also placeholding! Tags will come later. I just wanted to get this up.

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Chell watches from a rather strange distance. To an extent, she feels close enough to interact with Link and the...er...whatever it is. And yet, she cannot find herself to move, her eyes momentarily fixed on the sword impaling the woman's throat before she feels physically flung forward.

She stumbles to catch her balance, standing just arm's reach behind Link.

Her eyes, however, move to the sound of the other beginning to move forward before she can speak.

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He hears Chell's stumble and pulls the sword out of the Gerudo's throat, holding it out between himself and her. He stares in complete shock at first, then he blinks. The entire dream flickers all around them, slivers of green rippling all around. And suddenly, he looks older. There's no obvious change - but the subtleties are enough. This is the Link from Demeleier.

"Chell...?"

He frowns.

"No... you weren't here..."

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Her attention is drawn from the hulking mass of metal inching towards them. She frowns slightly. "Er...I suppose not." No, she really wasn't; she can't recall anything of this place in her memory.

"What do we do with that?" she said, making a motion towards the Iron Knuckle.

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He turns to regard the Iron Knuckle. He immediately folds into his attack stance, holding himself light and easily, ready to move. “We get that armour off of it first. Do you have your… um…” He lowers his sword and then, sheepishly, holds it the way he’d seen Chell holding her portal gun. “…? Because it might help getting around it…”

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Chell raises a brow momentarily, but quickly recognizes the gesture. "Always," she replies, a familiar weight resting across her shoulder. "It might work here. I'm not sure."

She regards the Iron Knuckle's advance as well as its surroundings. Get around it, get around it...Her eyes move upwards, firing, hopefully, a blue portal at the ceiling above it.

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The portal sticks to the ceiling - they're lucky about that. Link nods. "Okay. You use those to distract it. I'll get around behind and slice off its armour." He spins his sword and assumes his stance.