Though she does seem to be trying to exert the effort not to be a burden, her legs are like jelly and her body in general feels laced through with a weakness the like of which she couldn’t quite identify. Even if she’d had an ounce of muscle on her body… she slumps into the other woman’s grip, more like a rag doll than a human being.
A rag doll that manages to ask-]
A different world… ?
[Even if her voice is now accidentally muffled in a shoulder, her narrow chest inhaling shallowly in uneven pants for breath as she tries to orient herself.
A different world. The world of the dead… was such a thing real? It’s the only thing she can imagine, because she has never been imaginative, even as a Regressor…
But what’s her name?
The one she’d been born with was gone years ago, lost somewhere along the line to the Memory Extractor. The one Laura’s family had given her was help too secret and too precious.
Code name “Havoc”… or, no…
She thinks of Hei holding her like this, when she had nearly collapsed under the weight of her sins, the fear of her powers, and he had called her name. Or at least, the code name he had known her by, in a war more than five years done.]
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Though she does seem to be trying to exert the effort not to be a burden, her legs are like jelly and her body in general feels laced through with a weakness the like of which she couldn’t quite identify. Even if she’d had an ounce of muscle on her body… she slumps into the other woman’s grip, more like a rag doll than a human being.
A rag doll that manages to ask-]
A different world… ?
[Even if her voice is now accidentally muffled in a shoulder, her narrow chest inhaling shallowly in uneven pants for breath as she tries to orient herself.
A different world. The world of the dead… was such a thing real? It’s the only thing she can imagine, because she has never been imaginative, even as a Regressor…
But what’s her name?
The one she’d been born with was gone years ago, lost somewhere along the line to the Memory Extractor. The one Laura’s family had given her was help too secret and too precious.
Code name “Havoc”… or, no…
She thinks of Hei holding her like this, when she had nearly collapsed under the weight of her sins, the fear of her powers, and he had called her name. Or at least, the code name he had known her by, in a war more than five years done.]
Carmine… it’s Carmine….