"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]

[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?