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[yetsleeping]

[the screen flickers on, and you see... broken rocks, and shattered trees. Snowdrifts, and the remnants of a fallen building. You see them for the space of a breath, and no longer, as the forge, and whoever carries it, stumbles through the ruins. Their step is jarred, and jarring, and you can hear their breath - shaky and shallow

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[Video] We can lead into Action if you want? :D

[swordofthenorth]

Priscilla?

[Isley almost doesn't believe his eyes. Why doesn't she heal herself? She hasn't had the time. What could have done that to her? Even she doesn't know.. She has powerful reserves she could tap into, but that would mean... She would lose herself.]

[In the end it takes just one word to summon Isley from his residence: --please. His unchecked yoki mixes with Priscilla's. He doesn't care that it's tearing up the earth as he moves, that it would have taken apart his own home had he remained.]

I'll be right there, hold on.

[Video] WORKS FOR ME!

[yetsleeping]

[Her hands are stained with blood - hers or Teresa's? She doesn't know for sure. She holds her hand up, and the ground shakes.]

...Isley.

[Priscilla wipes tears from her eyes and leaves behind streaks of red.]

I drove it off. But it's still out here.

[Video→Action!]

[swordofthenorth]

Don't worry.

[He sounds calm, but his voice is the only shred of him that isn't overwhelmed by blind, animalistic fury.]

It will flee, and if it doesn't, then I will kill it for you.

[He would do it for her.]

I'm close.

[It's the only warning he gives before disconnecting. It's hard to focus on not crushing the Forge and finding Priscilla both, besides.]

[And as soon as the instrument is tucked away, Isley breaks into the Ruins; there is nothing to slow him down, nothing to stand in his way now. He follows her yoki to its source, stopping some feet away at the sight of Teresa's body and severed head...and Priscilla crumpled on the ground.]

[The earth is shaking fiercely between the two of them, and try as he might he can sense nothing through the storm of their energy, nothing at all.]

[He goes to her and kneels at her side.]

Can you stand?

[Action!]

[yetsleeping]

[She feels his approach - could not miss his approach. And so when that click comes, signaling his disconnect, she remains calm. As calm as she can be, at least.]

[But she's bleeding, she knows - too much. And her mind is in tatters, like her body - bad enough that she can't quite gather the focus to stop the flow... and she's still shaking when Isley kneels beside her.]

Can't... I don't know. I don't know!

[She takes a breath, unsteady. Uneven.]

My sword! It's-- [Where? And should she even worry about that?] I must have dropped it...

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[transitorychild]

Awww... Did someone go all to pieces?

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[yetsleeping]

...what?

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[transitorychild]

Went to pieces. Fell apart. Died. People do that a lot, you know.

[Siiigh~]

Apparently this one wasn't that smart if they left the pieces lying around. That's just asking to be caught~

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[yetsleeping]

What are you talking about?!

[So much stuff she doesn't care about here. She bangs the ground with her remaining fist, and the cobblestones scream and crack.]

I don't care about... any of that!

[medicatus]

[ All the color drains from her face, her thoughts focusing nononononopleaseno ]

Priscilla --- what happened? Where are you? What's in the Ruins???

[yetsleeping]

I was on patrol. And something--

I don't know what it was. It just came out of nowhere and-- I fought it off, but it ran away, and I don't know what it was, and... [She sob.] Teresa is dead, and...!

[medicatus]

Don't - don't speak anymore. Save you strength - help is coming.

[ But she sounds hysteric herself. ]

Is there anyone with you?

[yetsleeping]

[Her voice is... very quiet.]

Teresa is with me.

[With her, and dead.]

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[lilbloodeyes]

[She doesn't trust her in the least. And that yoki? It's making her feel nauseous. She gagged a few times before answering. It was important to answer, like it was important to keep people here safe.]

Where are you? Who did this?

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[yetsleeping]

The ruins, they-- Miata, don't come out here. It's too dangerous!

[Even for you.]

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[lilbloodeyes]

But you will awaken or die if alone.

[She's already moving. Danger? Ha! Laugh in the face of danger.]

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[yetsleeping]

Miata... No, I'll be--

[Fine? All right? She shakes her head.]

lmao she doesnt even know if tabby knows who teresa is but omg she's like asdjknkajd about this

[yetsleeping]

I was attacked. It killed Teresa.

Teresa.

POOR WORLD! /rolls around

[yetsleeping]

She was the Number One. Yes. I-- [--I've killed her once before, so I know how hard it is. Well. She shakes her head - can't say that.]

--it's not safe.