"the first miracle was that you were born" | HEART GAME

[miraculess]

Th- thump.

Th- thump.

Th- thump.

Darkness. Quiet. A heartbeat. Your heartbeat. Slowly, the murmur of sound. Footsteps. Voices—

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the laboratory

[miraculess]

—the sound of a shrieking alarm cuts across the calm and quiet, and you jerk awake. The instant your eyes open, the sounds stops as though it had never been, leaving only ringing in your ears... and fading footsteps from the doorway of the large room you're in.

You're lying on your back on an operating table. Assorted medical supplies lie on a tray nearby, all of them coated in the same thick dust blanketing the rest of the room. Despite that, someone is asleep on the floor nearby.

Re: the laboratory

[lonelydemon]

[ROLLS OFF THE TABLE IMMEDIATELY, PANICKY]

Re: the laboratory

[miraculess]

The table creaks under the sudden movement, but that's all. Ryner may have some difficulty not falling directly on his ass; his joints feel stiff, and his body far away and numb. Like he's been lying there long enough for most of his limbs to fall asleep.

Re: the laboratory

[lonelydemon]

[so yeah, falls on his ass. hopefully not on any stray scalpels. who's on the floor?]

Re: the laboratory

[miraculess]

All the scalpels remain properly laid out on the folding tray. Whoever this place belonged to at least practiced proper safety procedures. ...Well, aside from the woman sleeping on the floor.

She's blonde, with choppy chin-length hair. Her labcoat is rumpled, and missing a button. She's a little dusty, but nowhere near as much as the rest of the room; it looks like someone's made an attempt to brush it off of her, but not especially recently.

Re: the laboratory

[eldestt]

[ WE ARE GETTING THE FUCK OFF OF THIS NOW ]

Re: the laboratory

[miraculess]

The table creaks under the sudden movement, but that's all. He may have some difficulty landing well; his joints feel stiff, and his body far away and numb. Like he's been lying there long enough for most of his limbs to fall asleep.

Re: the laboratory

[eldestt]

[ stumbles, trying to stand up properly; he's rubbing at his neck and joints, trying to wake them up as he looks around for whoever's around here ]

[mentifact]

[ this is kind of nostalgic. which is sort of funny, since last time was ALSO just piggybacking off of someone else's experiences.

just. sits up and starts to go about getting off the table and onto xyr feet ]

[miraculess]

The table creaks under xem as they move. Xe might have some trouble staying steady; xyr joints feel stiff, and xyr body far away and numb. Like xe's been lying there long enough for most of xyr limbs to fall asleep.

[mentifact]

[ CONTINUES ADJUSTING SELF VERY CAREFULLY and moves towards the person on the floor. maybe sits down. by them. ]

Re: the laboratory

[no_hero]

[he sits up pretty much immediately, taking stock of everything, hand possibly going for a scalpel or something sharp.

and then he's looking to the person on the floor]

Re: the laboratory

[miraculess]

There are several scalpels; as dusty as they are, they're still sharp. Kiritsugu will have to be careful not to fumble it, though; his joints feel stiff, and his body far away and numb. Like he's been lying there long enough for most of his limbs to fall asleep. He did sit up quickly enough to catch a glimpse of someone short and blonde leaving the room at nearly a run.

The person on the floor is a woman: also blonde, with choppy chin-length hair. Her labcoat is rumpled, and missing a button. She's a little dusty, but nowhere near as much as the rest of the room; it looks like someone's made an attempt to brush her off, but not especially recently.

Re: the laboratory

[no_hero]

[well, he's used to being out of sorts with his own body, so he adjusts to the stiffness and disconnect pretty okay... though the numbness is... not reassuring.

still. there's someone alive, who just ran off. and there's someone on the ground...

getting to his feet and moving over to the woman on the ground]

Re: the laboratory

[rightwingman]

I'm up! I'm up!

[SITS UP????this is not a bed, where is this]

Re: the laboratory

[miraculess]

Your voice echoes in the quiet.

...it looks like an abandoned operating theater. The surgical table is in a circular depression in the middle of the room; there are see-through walls surrounding it.

Re: the laboratory

[rightwingman]

What in the world...?

[climbs off the table, looking around the room]

Re: the laboratory

[steelmyself]

Hmmm.

[ slowly, nonchalantly rolls off the table and looks to see who's here ]

Re: the laboratory

[miraculess]

The table creaks under the movement, but that's all. Haku may have some difficulty with the nonchalant part; his joints feel stiff, and his body far away and numb. Like he's been lying there long enough for most of his limbs to fall asleep.

There's the woman sleeping on the floor— but he also manages to catch a glimpse of someone hastily leaving the room, their labcoat flaring behind them.

Re: the laboratory

[steelmyself]

[ hesitates, looking after the person fleeing--but his limbs are sufficiently stiff that he doesn't trust himself to be able to catch up with them, and he crouches by the woman instead, studying her ]

Re: the laboratory

[hazyshadeofwinter]

[ There's a strong sensation of panic in him, from deep in some foreign part of him. It's the first memories he got back all over again, back in Hydra's base, being tortured—

He rolled quickly off the table, looking around wildly. ]

Re: the laboratory

[miraculess]

The table creaks under the sudden movement, but that's all. Bucky may have some difficulty not falling directly on his ass, though; his joints feel stiff, and his body far away and numb. Like he's been lying there long enough for most of his limbs to fall asleep.

...the sensation is familiar.

Re: the laboratory

[hazyshadeofwinter]

[ He is not quite coordinated enough to keep from falling down, his limbs betraying him with their numbness. He uses his left hand to massage some feeling back into his legs, shivering a little.

...The sensation is disturbingly familiar. ]

the river

[miraculess]

The night sky is visible through the treetops, starlight and moonlight providing just enough light to cut through the worst of the dark. Unlike the forest you're more familiar with, there's no real visible path— but one isn't really necessary. The foliage isn't so thick it can't be walked through.

In the distance, you can hear the low burble of a river.

[mentifact]

[ ALL RIGHT COOL I NEEDED TO FEEL WORSE ABOUT FUCKING THAT LAST PART UP, LET'S JUST GET LILITH FEELINGS INVOLVED, THAT'LL DO IT

all right. well. let's try the river thing again. u kno, the thing I also fucked up last time ]