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Litchi Faye-Ling ([personal profile] not_meatbuns) wrote2012-06-06 07:24 pm

Rebel 3 [Action/Written]

[After weeks of being with the Malnosso and then being under the influence of experiments afterward, Litchi had almost forgotten the sheer strain the Boundary is starting to put on her. But with the experiment over, the Malnosso influence gone, and everything returning to relative normal, it's back. And it hurts.

The coughing has gotten worse. Before, it wasn't nearly so frequent, and even then, there wasn't always blood coming up. Today, there are fits of coughing. Her handkerchief is already flecked with blood by the time she makes it to the plaza clinic in the morning for her shift.

For a while, the feedback quiets down. It dulls from a loud buzz to a muted hum. The coughing stops. The flashes of sight from timelines not her own stop.

But then, as she's walking to one of the examination rooms to replenish some supplies, it hits full-force. She staggers sideways into a wall as the violent coughing seizes her. The buzz of feedback noise rises to a roar. The clinic floor tiles shift and blur into a city street, a sewer, marble, the hallways of Sector Seven. The wave of dizziness grows until she suddenly realizes she's fallen to her knees... her vision is swimming in and out of focus but she thinks she can see blood flecking the floor before her... and just as a whisper of "I'm sorry, Litchi" reaches her brain without going through her ears, everything goes black. She crumples to the floor, completely unconscious, breathing ragged and shallow.]

[Written | 20% Locked away from Taokaka, Noel Vermillion, and Relius Clover]

[It isn't until much later in the evening, after she's been nursed back into the world of the living, that Litchi writes. When she does, her handwriting is shaky but still legible.]


One thing I have noticed in my time here is that, for all our differences, our worlds are all very much the same. Even those things which we seem to think make our own worlds unique seem to exist somewhere with someone else.

I have a question for everyone. And any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

In my world, we have a place we call the Boundary. It's [Pause. A wider space than necessary appears here.] a lot of things, really. But to keep it simple, it's a source of immense power and knowledge. A colleague of mine theorized that it contains the ultimate truth. In any case, normal humans cannot be exposed to its power for long. It breaks down the body and the mind until there isn't anything left.

I've been trying to find a cure for that erosion for many years. Convential, traditional, and even magical medicines can slow it, but can't stop it altogether, let alone reverse it. They treat the symptoms, not the disease.

If anyone has anything like this in their world, or has found a way to stop effects like this, please let me know. I'd forever be in your debt.

[[ooc: Yui will be finding Litchi, then any doctor is free to jump in to help. ♥]]
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[personal profile] rageface 2012-06-07 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Ragna sees her written explanation, and he instantaneously begins to wrap his brain around it. Especially considering what happened between the two of them because of this kind of thing, it forces Ragna to take a bit of action here. He buffs up the filter a bit (around 60%), and makes it private between the two of them. Considering Litchi didn't use the voice function, Ragna won't either.

When he finally writes, he does it slowly.]


What happened?
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[personal profile] rageface 2012-06-07 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
[That doesn't sound right. It was supposed to have disappeared, wasn't it? There was no way she could have been in Luceti for so long without a second incident--

But she left Luceti for a period.]
It's back. [That's all he writes for a moment, considering what else there is to be said on the matter. It's a delicate one. Especially between the two of them.]

Something needs to be done.
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[personal profile] rageface 2012-06-07 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[As much as he hates the Malnosso for what they did to Noel the past three months, and that they're holding them all essentially hostage here for their war... it was the only idea he had.]

Did you try asking the Malnosso for help?
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[personal profile] rageface 2012-06-11 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Get on that. It's the safest bet. [To be completely honest, Ragna doesn't want to see Litchi die again. He definitely doesn't want to be the one to do it either. He felt guilty, but it needed to be done. That's the kind of shit Ragna hates about his life.]
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[personal profile] rageface 2012-06-15 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Concern. It's part concern for her, where most of the concern falls with the safety of others and himself. People who fall to the boundary can be very dangerous. There's that one jackass who eats Kaka kittens, even.]

No problem.
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[personal profile] rageface 2012-06-16 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Ragna really doesn't know what to write at this point, so he just puts something that he would normally say. It's the most natural thing to do, rather than dance quietly about his wording.]

For your sake, I hope so.