Carolina sends that it's no problem when he thanks her, letting him switch their places when the cultist waxes poetic about pain. She feels the same way, but she keeps her face straight - slightly nervous but determined, as she's actually feeling.
Thanks, she thinks (and also says out loud) at him as she lays down, projecting a little mental smirk - a burst of warmth. Pretty sure the thought of knocking his teeth in is going to keep me going.
She takes the bite guard and places it in, laying back.
Just imagining it now-
She never finishes her thought, since Rellick starts without telling either of them. The scream that she gives is muffled behind the bite guard, what it's there for, and her fists ball up. Her back arches while her legs kick out, bending and then flattening.
She's been through torture. She's been in a frozen lake with AI ripped out of her mind, she's starved for eight days straight - and still somehow nothing compares to it feeling like she's going through all of it at once. She has to breath through her nose or risk spitting out the guard and splitting all their ears with a shriek.
She squeezes her eyes shut, digging her fingers into the ground under her. It hurts - but she has to keep going. She has to shoulder this.
I can do this. I can do this - I have to do this.
She doesn't realize she's sending it to Kyou, a desperate mantra that she has to do this, that it'll be over. Somehow, she manages the five minutes, even though by the end her throat is raw and there are tears in the corner of her eyes.
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Thanks, she thinks (and also says out loud) at him as she lays down, projecting a little mental smirk - a burst of warmth. Pretty sure the thought of knocking his teeth in is going to keep me going.
She takes the bite guard and places it in, laying back.
Just imagining it now-
She never finishes her thought, since Rellick starts without telling either of them. The scream that she gives is muffled behind the bite guard, what it's there for, and her fists ball up. Her back arches while her legs kick out, bending and then flattening.
She's been through torture. She's been in a frozen lake with AI ripped out of her mind, she's starved for eight days straight - and still somehow nothing compares to it feeling like she's going through all of it at once. She has to breath through her nose or risk spitting out the guard and splitting all their ears with a shriek.
She squeezes her eyes shut, digging her fingers into the ground under her. It hurts - but she has to keep going. She has to shoulder this.
I can do this. I can do this - I have to do this.
She doesn't realize she's sending it to Kyou, a desperate mantra that she has to do this, that it'll be over. Somehow, she manages the five minutes, even though by the end her throat is raw and there are tears in the corner of her eyes.