[Yang's grip on Ruby's shoulders tightens at the name "Adam Taurus". It's not quite enough to be painful but it's certainly not the comforting touch it was before.
And as the visions set in, her grip gets tighter still. If she had any presence of mind right now, Yang'd recognize immediately what Ruby's experiencing. But she's too caught up in the memories, this horrific pseudo out-of-body experience she's witnessing as she sees her own dead body. As if eager to join in, her own memories start bubbling to the forefront, that white and red mask, a flash of red-
Yang yelps, a sound that might have been a shout of "STOP" but too strangled to be intelligible. She half-releases and half-pushes herself away from Ruby, only just catching her balance on the side of her bunk as she staggers backwards, gasping for air.
Her gaze is briefly un-seeing before she looks back up at her sister, eyes wide with shock.]
That...
[She has to pause to swallow as she fights the feeling of bile rising in her throat, obviously shaken.]
...That wasn't... [Her voice sounds far too small.] ...That didn't happen...
[That didn't happen. That absolutely did not happen. It couldn't have.]
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Date: 2017-08-23 07:22 am (UTC)And as the visions set in, her grip gets tighter still. If she had any presence of mind right now, Yang'd recognize immediately what Ruby's experiencing. But she's too caught up in the memories, this horrific pseudo out-of-body experience she's witnessing as she sees her own dead body. As if eager to join in, her own memories start bubbling to the forefront, that white and red mask, a flash of red-
Yang yelps, a sound that might have been a shout of "STOP" but too strangled to be intelligible. She half-releases and half-pushes herself away from Ruby, only just catching her balance on the side of her bunk as she staggers backwards, gasping for air.
Her gaze is briefly un-seeing before she looks back up at her sister, eyes wide with shock.]
That...
[She has to pause to swallow as she fights the feeling of bile rising in her throat, obviously shaken.]
...That wasn't... [Her voice sounds far too small.] ...That didn't happen...
[That didn't happen. That absolutely did not happen. It couldn't have.]