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HEART SOLDIER SENSHI
[you find yourself in this derelict village, with not a soul to be seen—but before you is this station wagon:
for all intents and purposes, this baby is a simple "honk, steer, pedal to go, brakes to stop" vehicle that anyone with opposable thumbs can drive. despite its age, it does have a handy GPS system that displays paths you can take, but fails to identify anything like landmarks or other worldly features. last but not least: its paint job is done in your unit's color!
The following can be found in the trunk/dashboard:
• Icepicks
• These 5 Bone Saws
• A surgical set
• A single miniature of 99 Bananas
• one large first aid kit containing nothing but bandages and bandaids]
for all intents and purposes, this baby is a simple "honk, steer, pedal to go, brakes to stop" vehicle that anyone with opposable thumbs can drive. despite its age, it does have a handy GPS system that displays paths you can take, but fails to identify anything like landmarks or other worldly features. last but not least: its paint job is done in your unit's color!
The following can be found in the trunk/dashboard:
• Icepicks
• These 5 Bone Saws
• A surgical set
• A single miniature of 99 Bananas
• one large first aid kit containing nothing but bandages and bandaids]
Re: REACTION/DISCUSSION
[Breathe. Just like Zhongli told her. In through the nose, out through the mouth. Of course, it doesn't change a thing. The pain still tears at her. Her hands are still sticky with blood, there's still a weight on the side of her face, of damp and wadded fabric pressed too hard against cheek and brow and the orbit of her--]
--not you.
[Breathe.]
This place - the producers. Not you...!
[How can she make him understand this? The unjustness of it all almost cuts clear through the pain. That Alphinaud should have to feel responsible for this tears at her.]
Re: REACTION/DISCUSSION
Yeah, dude. You don't gotta apologize for something they took away.
That ain't on you.
Re: REACTION/DISCUSSION
Help me. We need to stop the bleeding and- and then clean the wound.
[He's trying his best to turn on 'responsible Alphinaud' instead of 'scared and actually a child'. He looks down at his sister again, his expression still distraught.]
Alisaie, just keep breathing. I don't know what we can do for the pain... but we'll help you.
Re: REACTION/DISCUSSION
[She trusts him.
[Even if there's nothing he can do, it won't be for wont of trying. Alisaie knows that much, at least. So she holds onto his hand and hopes against hope that some of their words have reached him. An ilm or three to the right or the left and he'd be the one lying here, not her.]
Just--
[It's carried on her breath, caught on gritted teeth.]
--if there's anything - anything I can do...
Re: REACTION/DISCUSSION
[Then, to Alphinaud, still applying pressure to the eye:]
Zhongli said to staunch the bleeding, then make a kinda patch with the bandage, and to hold it in place with the other bandage stuff, like wrapping it around.
I got aspirin. It ain't gonna get rid of all the pain, but it'll help some. Can you hold this real quick, and I can...?
Re: REACTION/DISCUSSION
Yes, I can.
[He's trying to be methodical and calm like he always is, but it just makes him sound more small and vulnerable than he already feels. While Hurricane sets about his own task, Alphinaud whispers to his sister, trying to be soothing despite how much his voice wavers.]
You'll be alright, sister. You'll be alright.
[Despite having such fleeting memories of his family, he knows his parents would be counting on him to look after her and she him. He's failing spectacularly, he thinks.]
Re: REACTION/DISCUSSION
[Inhale. Exhale. Inhale. It hurts. She wants to scream again, she wants to claw at her own face and tear out the pain: Alisaie bites her lip, and clings to Alphinaud's hand like she's drowning and he's the one thing in the world that might still save her. The seat shakes, jarring her, as the car jolts and rattles its way down the road, branches scraping at the sides.
[Good. The bronze paint looked awful, anyway.
[The only thing she can do now is lie still, and try to be cooperative. So Alisaie lies there, just as hard as she can.]
Re: REACTION/DISCUSSION
Here - lift her head, just a little?
Re: REACTION/DISCUSSION
Once you have it around her head, I'll adjust it.
[He's hitting his limit, even if he can't say it. He knows Hurricane is helping and that they're both afraid for her.]
Alisaie, just keep calm. We'll help you feel better.