10-27-2013, 05:38 PM
Grace suffers in those twelve hours. While in her lucid times, she's comforted by Sid's progress, she also remembers Lena healing herself, and how that went to hell.
During not-so-lucid times, Grace can be heard screaming in the back room that has become hers over these days of quarantine. They are short, breathless, gurgling things squeezed through a graveled throat. So perhaps they don't reach the kind of decibel levels that might distract Sid or Luke, but walking down the hallway perhaps, or trying to bring her food -- one of them will eventually notice.
Look how she writhes, lost in her own world, eyes staring at and tracking things that aren't there. Her arms are streaked with little sores where she has picked at the bugs under her skin, and in her times of madness she cannot take care of herself very well. Clothes and linens have to be changed regularly because of the spilled blood.
When Sid comes by to administer the cure, she has to wait. Grace is gone. Flailing. In her mind, she is being dissected layer by layer, peeled apart by a woman in a yellow dress whose eyes drip tears of blood into her opened body.
When she stops, it is because she is unconscious. It's for the best really. Sid doesn't need to hold her down at that point, and at least the waking nightmare has stopped. But her eyes flitting like mad under closed lids suggest that it's only slid into her dreams.
Thankfully, it will be the last of the truly horrible ones. In a matter of days, she died, in a matter of days she will be reborn.
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When she learns that Sid has contacted Callum, she frets over that a bit. She's got a theory as to Callum, and who he really is, and what that lab of his really is. It's just a theory, but she lets everyone know anyway.
They're former Technocrats. Perhaps the consors and biologists of some splinter group that now wants to brand themselves Transhumanists instead of the other T. Or, alternatively, they are still Technocrats, and are studying this virus for their own reasons. If Lena and Sera are at their lab in the mountains, it would be a reason why they can't be located -- ex Technocrats are usually firebombed by current Technocrats, as Grace understands it (from all the Virtual Adept propaganda she's managed to soak in). So they'd have need of subtlety and hidden fortresses. And a secret Technocratic lab would want to remain secret, yes?
In other words, play carefully with Callum. He might have abducted their friends. And who knows what he really wants with the Hydra?
During not-so-lucid times, Grace can be heard screaming in the back room that has become hers over these days of quarantine. They are short, breathless, gurgling things squeezed through a graveled throat. So perhaps they don't reach the kind of decibel levels that might distract Sid or Luke, but walking down the hallway perhaps, or trying to bring her food -- one of them will eventually notice.
Look how she writhes, lost in her own world, eyes staring at and tracking things that aren't there. Her arms are streaked with little sores where she has picked at the bugs under her skin, and in her times of madness she cannot take care of herself very well. Clothes and linens have to be changed regularly because of the spilled blood.
When Sid comes by to administer the cure, she has to wait. Grace is gone. Flailing. In her mind, she is being dissected layer by layer, peeled apart by a woman in a yellow dress whose eyes drip tears of blood into her opened body.
When she stops, it is because she is unconscious. It's for the best really. Sid doesn't need to hold her down at that point, and at least the waking nightmare has stopped. But her eyes flitting like mad under closed lids suggest that it's only slid into her dreams.
Thankfully, it will be the last of the truly horrible ones. In a matter of days, she died, in a matter of days she will be reborn.
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When she learns that Sid has contacted Callum, she frets over that a bit. She's got a theory as to Callum, and who he really is, and what that lab of his really is. It's just a theory, but she lets everyone know anyway.
They're former Technocrats. Perhaps the consors and biologists of some splinter group that now wants to brand themselves Transhumanists instead of the other T. Or, alternatively, they are still Technocrats, and are studying this virus for their own reasons. If Lena and Sera are at their lab in the mountains, it would be a reason why they can't be located -- ex Technocrats are usually firebombed by current Technocrats, as Grace understands it (from all the Virtual Adept propaganda she's managed to soak in). So they'd have need of subtlety and hidden fortresses. And a secret Technocratic lab would want to remain secret, yes?
In other words, play carefully with Callum. He might have abducted their friends. And who knows what he really wants with the Hydra?