‘ repeat after me: we are going to get through this. ’
ask meme: warm suggestions edition / accepting.@wglf
the air is ripe with the stench of ROT , of mud and decaying vegetation . a harsh breath finds itself fleeing parted lips , before her teeth drag together sharply . agonizing pain lashed itself across her back , a laceration made with a serrated , rusted bone saw . it’s so hard - she struggles to contain the sharp cries of pain that slip through her lips , nails clinging tight to the fabric of her jeans on her upper thigh . A WOMAN’S SCREAM echoes through the surrounding area , something vaguely inhuman , a shrill call into the void that beckoned her .
another scream , this one more masculine , then nothing . the air rippled with sheer ENERGY , a sign that the creature beyond the fog had arrived , taking its prey with it - though hardly earned . ( HOPE was the currency around these parts , and laurie’s funds dragged dangerously low . ) david’s arrival causes her to involuntarily flinch , not really expecting to see much of anything other than the glint of a blade grasped in a gaunt hand, or the flash of generators crackling with electricity when a wire tripped . ❝ i’m sorry. ❞ her voice is quiet , forced . it’s an apology for the ruckus , for fingers slicked with blood , and the beacon she created by simply existing .
they’re crouched fairly close together and even still , she can barely hear his voice over the sound of her own blood rushing in her ears , or her own heavy breathing . relax , you’ll be okay . it’s her own mind’s attempt to soothe her , words given to her because of his own . laurie can only shake her head , once , twice . there’s no GUARANTEE she was getting out of here , just as there was no guarantee he would either . it was funny , how that worked - sometimes there was a glimmer of mercy in darkened , hollow eyes , glimmers that rarely returned if one of them made it out alive . you don’t know that . it bites at the tip of her tongue , begging to be heard , and yet she only sniffles . not with tears , even if they threatened to spill , but because she knows . she won’t—she can’t say it .