"Shit what are you- what did you do?"
Damned be the girl who played with fire. Heavy wheezes wriggled their way out of Lux’s chest, the girl was having immense trouble breathing. She could feel the fire within her chest, the warmth of something burning strangely uncomfortable for once in her life. Ears picking up on a snapping sound, a consistent crick-crackling that wasn’t coming from her hands, her best attempts were made to ignore it. The sound rose in her ears like the fire she could see around her, everywhere that her eyes darted to and from were the reddish-orange lights she’d come to love. The fire in her hands seemed to only grow into a glowing white hot mass. “What do you think I did, Riain?”
Turning her head back to get a look, to look at him, she kept her face obscured behind her thick hair. Faint light peaked between the dark strands and danced across her shoulders. “What else could I have done? What else do you think I could possibly fucking d- someone came in and they started- I panicked and they had guns and they-” Speaking required her breathing to pick up. Breathing got harder, thinking got hastier, a numb void feeling encased her body save for the searing, incinerating, all out burning sensation coursing through her veins.
Mind power quickly running to a halt, a decision was made to face the man she considered a friend. Turning towards The King, she allowed him to see that which she tried to ignore. Her body was burning from the inside out, overheating to the point that any tears blocked out by adrenaline vaporized into steam. The skin on her fingers was finally starting to melt away, leaving charred bone in their wake. A hole was boring its way through her chest, leaking out some smoky liquid and once that she noticed that The King had seen it, a hand moved to acknowledge it. Covering it. Hiding it. “…It really is bad, isn’t it?”
Adrenaline wearing off, realization setting in, Lux began to truly feel the searing pain throughout her body. She tried her best to keep in the noises of pain, but she couldn’t help but sob. “This really is- Oh my god, oh my god- Riain, I always… I said I’d go out in a blaze a’ glory but not like this, not like- fucking help me, Riain, don’t you fucking dare just stand there-!”