Lesedi smiles into her face, pressing her a little too hard against the wall; she can feel her gem grind against the metal. With all the force of a battering ram, water lashes against the thick metal of the walls outside, hurling, pounding, trying to get to her.
Failing.
It will never make it in time.
Lesedi's fingers close around her throat, practiced and focused. Mentally Lapis wrests, grapples for control with ever-increasing urgency, her eyes wide and dark on the other woman's face. She knows what's coming, and she can't prevent it.
She can't move, and the water is too far away to reach.
All she can do is feel the fingers tighten . . . and watch like a mouse unable to look away from the hawk about to tear it apart.
And then . . . like fingers suddenly breaking their grip, she's free.
. . .
The shriek that's been held in her lungs snaps loose; she stumbles back, expecting a wall that isn't there. There's nothing. Open space.
Somehow that's all the more alarming. Her eyes scatter in all directions, fingers grasping at her throat, seeing everything, absorbing nothing. Faces. Looking. Nothing she recognizes. No one she recognizes. A ghoulish cast, looming, waiting, piercing with their eyes.
Waiting to finish the job.
Metal beneath the train, groans, screams -- and suddenly snaps. Water gushes from a gaping hole in the underlying pipes towards Lapis; she lashes out with it with whoever's nearby, the wave strong enough to sweep anyone off their feet.
Watery wings bloom from the gem at her back, and with a hiccupped gasp, she launches upward.
*** Catch her: 1. In the air if you have the ability to fly, battering against the barrier. 2. On the ground again, her eyes unfocused and wild, trying to break through the barriers at the edge of the platform.
Both may result in her lashing out at you if you get too close, but you're welcome to try to fight her (she is doing damage to the train!), prevent her from doing more damage/hurting anyone, or work on getting her to calm down.
Lapis Lazuli (CRAU) - FIGHT??? Train damage, stealing your water.
Her body is no longer her own.
Lesedi smiles into her face, pressing her a little too hard against the wall; she can feel her gem grind against the metal. With all the force of a battering ram, water lashes against the thick metal of the walls outside, hurling, pounding, trying to get to her.
Failing.
It will never make it in time.
Lesedi's fingers close around her throat, practiced and focused. Mentally Lapis wrests, grapples for control with ever-increasing urgency, her eyes wide and dark on the other woman's face. She knows what's coming, and she can't prevent it.
She can't move, and the water is too far away to reach.
All she can do is feel the fingers tighten . . . and watch like a mouse unable to look away from the hawk about to tear it apart.
And then . . . like fingers suddenly breaking their grip, she's free.
. . .
The shriek that's been held in her lungs snaps loose; she stumbles back, expecting a wall that isn't there. There's nothing. Open space.
Somehow that's all the more alarming. Her eyes scatter in all directions, fingers grasping at her throat, seeing everything, absorbing nothing. Faces. Looking. Nothing she recognizes. No one she recognizes. A ghoulish cast, looming, waiting, piercing with their eyes.
Waiting to finish the job.
Metal beneath the train, groans, screams -- and suddenly snaps. Water gushes from a gaping hole in the underlying pipes towards Lapis; she lashes out with it with whoever's nearby, the wave strong enough to sweep anyone off their feet.
Watery wings bloom from the gem at her back, and with a hiccupped gasp, she launches upward.
***
Catch her:
1. In the air if you have the ability to fly, battering against the barrier.
2. On the ground again, her eyes unfocused and wild, trying to break through the barriers at the edge of the platform.
Both may result in her lashing out at you if you get too close, but you're welcome to try to fight her (she is doing damage to the train!), prevent her from doing more damage/hurting anyone, or work on getting her to calm down.