No no no no no she can't lose this too, Lina finds herself thinking frantically as she's chasing the ball of light that just came out of her body. She doesn't know what she's lost yet but she ends up chasing it outside, into the streets near her apartment, and almost can't get through the door because she's so used to only using a fraction of her strength that the door doesn't even budge and then she understands entirely what's at stake.
It's the only thing she has left that makes her able to keep people safe. It's the only thing she can do to be useful to people when food and love won't cut it (and food and love hadn't cut it for months now). And it's getting the hell away and she can't let that happen—and then she sees it sink into somebody else, but she doesn't even process who it is yet before she's running up to them and sounding desperate.
"Please. Please, you need to give that back to me."
b. i can't run, i can't hide [a more different ii]
This isn't exactly what Lina had had in mind when she'd quietly begged into the uncaring night for things to stop. She looks around her at the only sign of motion nearby, and since she was actually trying to open the app to see who else she's lost today, she has to assume they're a Retrospec user.
"This is new," she says as she carefully walks up, and hopefully they aren't just as new to the app. Her attention is more on some of the completely frozen things around her—the firewall seems to have brought back a few birds that wouldn't usually be here so early, and even just looking at those mid-flight has her a little distracted. "It isn't supposed to do this when we open it, right?"
c. to retreat back into me like a catabolic seed [wildcard]
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No no no no no she can't lose this too, Lina finds herself thinking frantically as she's chasing the ball of light that just came out of her body. She doesn't know what she's lost yet but she ends up chasing it outside, into the streets near her apartment, and almost can't get through the door because she's so used to only using a fraction of her strength that the door doesn't even budge and then she understands entirely what's at stake.
It's the only thing she has left that makes her able to keep people safe. It's the only thing she can do to be useful to people when food and love won't cut it (and food and love hadn't cut it for months now). And it's getting the hell away and she can't let that happen—and then she sees it sink into somebody else, but she doesn't even process who it is yet before she's running up to them and sounding desperate.
"Please. Please, you need to give that back to me."
b. i can't run, i can't hide [a more different ii]
This isn't exactly what Lina had had in mind when she'd quietly begged into the uncaring night for things to stop. She looks around her at the only sign of motion nearby, and since she was actually trying to open the app to see who else she's lost today, she has to assume they're a Retrospec user.
"This is new," she says as she carefully walks up, and hopefully they aren't just as new to the app. Her attention is more on some of the completely frozen things around her—the firewall seems to have brought back a few birds that wouldn't usually be here so early, and even just looking at those mid-flight has her a little distracted. "It isn't supposed to do this when we open it, right?"
c. to retreat back into me like a catabolic seed [wildcard]
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