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[meritocracy]

[the feed blurs in, shaky and uncertain. there's grass, sky, and there's blood. there's golden curls and a familiar brown headband and there's blood.

the video screen is smeared with red fingerprints and there is suddenly white skin, spasming fingers reaching for the screen but there is not a single word. not a single sound.

it moves, slowly, the fingers twitching as if in agony before it moves to a face, blood smeared at the top of the chin, dirt speckled across the cheeks and eyes barely open. for a minute there's the flash of a horrible red, gaping wound beneath the chin but then it's back to a pale face, lips parting but no sigh coming out. then the video spirals upwards, once, twice, red fingerprints and all.

and the fallen woman hasn't uttered a single word. ]

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[meritocracy]

[Natalia is stubborn too. She isn't afraid--not for her. Worried about the others and if they're alright--that she's causing trouble. It frustrates her. But she says nothing.

She blinks at her again, smiling once again though it's fainter. Her eyes flicker stubbornly.]

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[seleniahymn]

[Except for all their stubbornness, there was still the possibility that it could not be enough to keep her awake before Asch arrived. And if Natalia were to pass out, there was the possibility that...]

Natalia. [She wishes that she had not had to raise her voice, but it was a surefire way to keep her attention focused on her.]

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[meritocracy]

[Tear. Tear--

Her green eyes are faint, her smile like the taped-fonons Asch applied to her wound, not steady enough. There's a possibility in the back of her mind, as a studied healer, that she's suffered a grievous wound.

And that she might not be able to come home, after all.
Tear's voice is firm and she has her eyes closed, white as snow--before that voice calls to her. There's a green flicker under her closed eyes.]

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[seleniahymn]

Please, stay with me. [Grievous wound or not, Tear was going to put everything she had into making sure that Natalia would heal, that she would be able to hear her speak again and they can move past this like they had all the other terrible events suffered throughout their journey together in Auldrant.

She would be there for her.] You must stay awake, do you understand?