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You're Going to Ruin Everything
Topic Started: Tue Nov 29, 2016 6:42 pm (2,385 Views)
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"Right. We're running interference, Hook. Let's go."

They might not be able to directly counter the fae's magic, but...one thing they'd learned well was that it was very difficult to maintain concentration amidst flashing claws. Shot brandished her hook, throwing it and jerking it back by the rope to force movement and dodges while Hook himself snarled and clawed, darting to and fro. The two never made themselves and easy target, but not being savaged by them would hopefully take enough of the mages' concentration that the others would have time to get Grasshopper and Eponine to safety...
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Aerie's strong wings unfurled and she was already just barely behind the others as she picked up Hopper's small body and flew down the tight turns of the stairwell. She deposited him on the ground nearby as her glide landed her by Eponine's fallen form. Aerie turned the other girl so that Eponine lay flat on her back and pressed her palm against Nine's chest. She rested her cheek near Eponine's mouth and nose, and placed two fingers firm on Nine's wrist.

"Eponine, please. Please do not bucket kick..."

She only barely noted that Leon was standing over them, his back turned to Aerie as she tore through Eponine's shirt enough to expose the scarred burn lightning had made through her chest. It was a sunburst, blooming forth from just above her heart and following all the veins outward.

She was no true medic, but living in the harsh frozen norths, she had learned to care for her family alone when doctors were a five day trip away through snowstorms. She locked her elbows and flatted both palms on Eponine's torso and started chest compressions, just as her grandmother had once instructed when her grandfather fell ill one blizzard. One... two... three... steady as the heartbeat she wished to restart. She only paused to give Eponine a breath of air and continue.

"Come. On. Epo. nine. Do. not. do this. Not now."
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Eponine convulsed but did not waken. Her chest caved deep under Aerie's weight with each compression, and were Eponine awake, she would too feel her ribs buckling and collapsing into her chest cavity like crab legs being torn from the shell. Her lungs seized and tightened, and her limbs twitched for want of oxygen. She felt herself in a dream, cocooned in a deep ocean, hugging her knees to her chest, eyes closed, feeling herself reborn as something greater. The voices oft in her head roared now in cacophony of screams and whispers - promises and debts unpaid to a choir of those beyond reprise. If she had the air, had the lungs to fill with it, and had the consciousness to move, Eponine would scream, and join that chorus until the real world was but an echo muted by her submersion in this vast sea.
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"N-nine..." Hopper leaned on his elbow to sit up. It only took eye contact with Grass for him to feel through the gryphon what Eponine had done. She took the hit for them. For their shared life. He leaned over her face, stroking her hair off a cheek and brushing away tear drops from her fair skin.... his tears, he realized. When had he started? He watched Aerie miserably as she counted out compression.

"Think, Hopper, think," he pounded the side of his fist into his own noggin. He could engineer his way through this. What was a body but a machine that ran on oxygen and pressure. Her heart was the chamber of a steam engine, and Aerie now served as the only functioning piston. She'd been hit by lightning. He recognized the scar on her heart as the same kind of marks he had on his fingertips. The way his fingerprints were burned darker shades than the rest of his skin from poking screwdrivers into tools that made little boys into superheroes. How did you start an engine that stopped? You gave it a jolt. Cut the power, cut the engine. But enough sparking sapphires into a mechanism's center, and the whole circuit would blow. Wires and copper had a voltage limit. The heart must be the same.

He had to ground her. She was already sprawled on the wooden floor, shirt torn open, clothes ripped. Okay. Okay grounded. So now she needed a jolt. Hyperventilating now, Hopper ripped his own cloak off and from it, he wrenched away the comm device, smashing it on the ground. It wouldn't break. Steal Aerie's mace. Smash it. Good. He'd broken three of the sparkphires but the last two were solid. Grab em. Ow. Rubber gloves? No time. His belt? That works. Take off belt and use to grip the magic gems. Dump out a pouch of gadgets to use the canvas to buffer the shock. Good.

He pushed Aerie out of the way. "Keep going. Lower. Her diaphragm isn't that high." The crusader's closest thing to a medic adjusted Aerie's hands. "Clear away a sec. Gimme space. Clear!" The gems shocked and burned his hands as he palmed the bag and slammed it against Eponine's chest, at the side of her heart.
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