"People tell you things all the time without talking. The way they move, the way they aren't talking."River has "an aptitude for extraordinary assimilation of knowledge and data recall, empathy, and even what appears to be some form of psychic reading ability," which is basically a lot of fancy talk for being extremely intuitive, predicting how ( Read more... )

Standard crit post. IP logging is off, anon is on.

It stopped.

[There's a pause, followed by a secretive smile.]

Xièxiè.

This place is a tesseract. The whatsit, the who, the which. Prime coordinator and It pull the strings, get deep inside and break down the walls. They speak in ways you can't understand.

Keep them out of my head.

I know I hold him back. All of them. I know, I know, I know, I know. Pinyin sǐ. Tetraphobia. Can't counter this bad luck, can't shake the destruction she brings. Your screams don't remind her of what she already knows.

This here is a robbery.

[It's absolute chaos. There are bodies littering the streets, both alien and human alike. River is sitting crouching amongst the destruction, holding a plasma rifle that she found on one of the dead Elites. She's unfocused like someone who is experiencing shell shock, aware of her surroundings but not processing what is happening. Anyone who ( Read more... )