PRIDE BEFORE A FALL | Closed.

[limier]

WHO: Lakshmi + Coupe, Kitty, Gwenaelle, Helena, Iorveth, Marcoulf, Merrill, Solas.
WHAT: Fade cannonball
WHEN: You can't make me date you
WHERE: The Free Marches
NOTES: OOC Post, Discussion plurk.

This is routine.

A rift, high above the ruins of the Hammer’s Edge Bridge. It cuts into the sky, green and pulsing as a wound to spit out spirits like misery. This is routine — but the position is precarious, so near to a cliff ledge. Watch your footing, a fall promises only sharp rocks and water below.

The task is straightforward: Close the tear, or provide a diversion for the Rifters doing so. Keep yourself alive, and keep your hand to the task, no matter how it aches. When respite comes, it’s a matter of seconds: The Rift stabilizes, and,

And Lakshmi breaks from the group. Moving fast (too considered for the pace, every demon dodged, never a misstep on the odd root or rock) as she sprints for the edge. Maybe you tried to grab her, stop her, stop someone else from grabbing her.

She launches herself legs out, flatly determined in her aim —

Maybe it’s only that like it or not, she’s going through that rift. Maybe it’s that there’s no good reason not to join her. Maybe it’s that everyone else is jumping too.

Routine, right?

 

Comments

[rathercommon]

No, no -

[ Kitty grabs desperately at Helena - catches her collar, good enough, and tries to yank her back physically. She's serious about it, desperation giving her hands a wild strength. ]

It'll kill you. You don't even have resilience - It'll kill you. You've got to run.

[strangel]

Many things try to kill me.

( None of them had succeeded yet, but the desperation in Kitty does make her pause, setting a reassuring hand over Kitty's. )

Monsters can fight monsters.

[rathercommon]

[ But Kitty doesn't let go. Instead, she says, desperately - ]

You're not a monster!

[strangel]

( Helena's expression turns baleful as she steps closer to Kitty. Of the two of them, Kitty is taller. Helena grabs wrist of the hand holding onto her and twists it sharply outwards, wrenching it down, so she can attempt to pull Kitty around and shove her forwards, hoping to make her stumble away from Helena and in the opposite direction of the monster.

For a moment, the light crackles, and Helena is covered in a bloody soaked wedding dress, face slick with blood, and then she looks as she had before.

Regardless of if her attempt to break Kitty's hold and push her away worked: )

I still try to protect. Go.

[rathercommon]

[ Against her will, a little whimper of pain comes from her throat when Helena grabs at her wrist. She's all the more stubborn-looking afterwards for allowing that little sign of weakness: her jaw sets mulishly, and she grabs at Helena's wrist in return. Terrified as she is - she's not leaving her behind. ]

If you stay behind, I'll die with you. Come away.

[strangel]

( Helena stares at Kitty, baleful. She will not move, the little cat. She is too foolish.

There is a moment of brief, blistering fury, before she looks at the demon, and begins dragging Kitty away from it. Even if Kitty comes willingly, with Helena following her instructions, somehow Helena manages to make it a drag. )