"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—

Comments

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

[miraculess]

She hasn't responded to the sounds of him moving around at all. Still, perhaps that's to be expected; with how much dust is on her, she must have been sleeping pretty deeply for a long time.

Re: the laboratory

[no_hero]

["sleeping". actually crouching to check if there's any signs of life]

Re: the laboratory

[miraculess]

...oh.

She's dead, isn't she... why did you think she was only sleeping?