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It’s time

[personal profile] twibeast 2022-05-05 07:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ He keeps the shield up but starts to feel it push back the more she punches. He can’t let it down though - for not just his sake but everyone else sleeping just a few floors below.

He only has one chance at this. And he has to make it count.

Once the perfect timing arises he reforms the shield into a lance and puts it right through her rose eye. ]
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1/2 cw: dissociation

[personal profile] twibeast 2022-05-05 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ As soon as the monster that was once Bryn is down and, more importantly, stays down Orthrus crumples into a heap. Like a doll being dropped he lands with his back against the wrecked pews, his eyes pointed at the ceiling.

Everything is quiet now.

He lays there for what feels like an eternity, before his body starts to finally move independently of him. He watches it as it manages to correct whatever was done to his leg and starts to limp across the chapel (Don't worry, your leg will be fine in a few hours, it'll be fine before the trial). Dragging itself to Hubert's body (Don't look at it) it finds the harp still hidden under the pews (You can't leave this here, they'll know it's you) before leaving the chapel entirely.

Clean up. You have to clean up.

So much of Hubert's blood is on him now, and in the back of his mind he notes a trickling down his leg. The restroom is just a floor below, it'll do. He watches his body stagger in there, surely having tracked more blood with it, and remove all his clothes before collapsing onto his knees under the running shower head.

It's so cold. The room is so cold. And yet he himself is running so hot, like a system overheating. He wants to cry, it's so uncomfortable.

Then cry. But no matter what you must survive.

He sits there under the water as the voices get louder and louder until it drowns out everything else.

Survive.

Survive.

Survive.


Someone is sobbing. Someone is wailing their heart out. Sobbing and crying and wailing and cursing and-- ]