[Close her eyes? You don't need to tell her twice. They wrench shut at once, her mouth thinned to a bloodless line in tandem.
That ghastly pop has her flinching though, and eventually, she cracks an eye open. In and out the needle goes, in and ohgod out. Are her teeth chattering? She almost bites at her hand again but remembers just in time. Gotta stay clean, her turn is coming up next.]
W-w-war? [She thought she'd said a war just ended. Could a second one have broken out so soon? Or was she getting people's histories mixed up? You hear so many strange things here, it was inevitable some of the details would get muddled.] Customary fashion?
[See, this is why magic and all that crap was bogus. There were supposed to be rules. Once you took the lid off the limit of reality, no one was safe.]
So, you almost d-died. Is what you're telling me. [Small blink.] You got impaled? And you lived?!
considering her canon she REALLY ought to be getting over it :weary: baby steps...
That ghastly pop has her flinching though, and eventually, she cracks an eye open. In and out the needle goes, in and ohgod out. Are her teeth chattering? She almost bites at her hand again but remembers just in time. Gotta stay clean, her turn is coming up next.]
W-w-war? [She thought she'd said a war just ended. Could a second one have broken out so soon? Or was she getting people's histories mixed up? You hear so many strange things here, it was inevitable some of the details would get muddled.] Customary fashion?
[See, this is why magic and all that crap was bogus. There were supposed to be rules. Once you took the lid off the limit of reality, no one was safe.]
So, you almost d-died. Is what you're telling me. [Small blink.] You got impaled? And you lived?!