- HEY, YOU.... *he stops and doubles over, catching a breath*
- you needed...*inhale*....to get into.....*exhale* jesus...into institute?
@do-spiders-hear-you
"Huh, what?" Aryn looks panicked as the tall guy runs over, but as the words register they are visibly more calm.
"Oh, yeah! Well i mean I've been inside, but i keep getting kicked out and- actually im pretty sure a lot of the staff have me on a like ban list or something-" They cut off their rambling, "but yeah, getting into the Institute is my goal at the moment."
*[They find a house, it looks a bit beaten up by the state of the windows with a golf cart near the front, that doesn't matter, the lights are on, maybe the people inside can help.]*
*[The blood coming from their new pairs of eyes is too much, their head hurts and body aches.]*
*[They pass out, head thudding against the door.]*
major major spoilers for The Song of Your Heart, a scifi tmnt fic by yours truly.
here’s a snippet from the chapter in question below the cut:
“Long shadows crept along the walls towards them, and rounding the sharp bend lumbered two nightmarish organisms. The three turtles had never before seen anything like them; they were so large they just barely fit in the corridor on all fours, which was how they walked. All four limbs on which they crawled ended in bizarre hand-like appendages, neither claws nor feet. Both creatures had unnaturally long bodies, from their front and hind arms to their torsos to their necks.
The lights in the hallway were bright enough that Mikey could make out a gross blotching of colors that made up their scales, appearing in bright blue and pale green. The slightly hunched backs of the monsters each looked to be made up of shell-like plates and protruding bone.
As they drew nearer, Leo, Raph, and Mikey stayed frozen, none of them daring to so much as breathe too loudly; so far, it didn’t seem like the creatures had noticed them.
And then a surge of emotion burst from Nollpak Ozinfa’s mind, engulfing the three brothers in a miasma of despair. Suddenly, they understood. Through Nollpak’s quick observation, skills in puzzling out situations at a rapid speed, and ability to share their findings telepathically as a result, all three of them understood.
“No…” whispered Leonardo under his breath.
Raphael’s face was a mask of shock. The twin sai shook in his hands.
A long time ago, Mikey had amused himself in the main medical bay by doodling pictures of everyone on one of the iPad-like touchscreen tablets. He’d drawn his brothers and a few of the medical technicians before scribbling out an amusing sketch of Donnie and Ray kissing like a dime-store-novel book illustration. At the time, Mikey had considered giving Ray a mouth, as he’d been unsure how they’d kiss otherwise, but quickly discovered that Ray with a mouth was horribly, uncannily creepy. So he’d erased it with haste.
Staring at the figures looming ahead of them, Mikey now realized that he’d been right.
What's wrong with dirt! Dirt is way better than the sky! It's cozy and soft, sky is cold and wayyyy too big.
Join the Soil
- @artifacts-abode
OH! Really!? Dirt is BAD. Its heavy, rough, jagged, pointy, course. I could go on. My love is more than just cold and big! -Not that you could tell a lake from a bay- Shes multi-temperature! She can burn your skin to a beautiful flaky red and the next day freeze till you're fingers go black! And saying that She's 'wayyy to big' is an understatement! She is more than just BIG She is all incompetencing! She is the air in you're lungs that crush it from the inside out like a water bottle full of steam put in ice water, She is the wind tearing at your flesh like knives! She is the only thing at will ever understand and love anyone fully! Never could one be alone when as long as you BREATHE She is there. No need for silly wants or bodily needs when in Sky Blue! To need anything is treason in Her presence <33
Well. Approached isn't really the right word. They're technically just staring at them. Random isn't, either. There's a definite sense of The Vast about them
- @mischa-of-the-vast
After almost a minute of being stared at Ayrn desides to speak to the teenager "Uh... can I help you?"
