countermeasures | chroma | catchall for meteion

[meteion is going into a pod she has no choice in the matter

anyway, as promised, jiuqing is here once she comes out of it - her expression concerned, but her vibes still radiating relief, and affection, and as much calm as she can manage. it's all tinged with worry, but there really isn't any helping that.]

Miss Meteion...

[ damb how i told my curfew she didn't OKAY ONLY ENOUGH TO STABILIZE but because Jiuqing is here, she'll be able to see everything that's happened to this bird teen! let's start from head to toe..? From her head, her right wing is fractured-- if Jiuqing is familiar with bullets, it looks like one or something whizzed right on by and nicked it. Taking a good handful of feathers as it has less compared to the other wing.

Along her hands and arms she has a bunch of scrapes, as if trying to protect herself from sharp fragments of something. One of the most nastiest injuries is the extremely deep gash on her back from shoulder to hip. And on the front is a slash from the front at the right shoulder to elbow. But... what looks most fatal? Is the stab above her heart. Fortunately, despite how it looks, it doesn't seem fatal in prism.

There's an injury akin to being skewered in her left side, a spear gouge in her left thigh. A slash made of a sword on her right side and... well, some nicks and scrapes along her legs as well but nothing too serious. ...whew! ]

Dying felt... so cold. So, so cold. [ she's trembling. ] P-Prompto tried to save me, he did save me but I...

[ .... ] I died. Again.

[ :') ]

There wasn't... there wasn't anything we could do.

[CAN YOU PLEASE BE NICE TO THIS BABY BIRD HOLY SHIT ZETSU

anyway.

jiuqing takes stock of the injuries, mentally mapping out where she's hurt and how, reaching for the supplies she'll need to treat them with to help make meteion a little more comfortable. she will be going back into that pod. honestly, jiuqing wishes she had stayed in there a little longer.]

...that's over now. You're here... you're safe. Prompto is safe, too. And Sir Aymeric.

[she's familiar enough with these types of wounds by now that she can treat them, so she gets started on it.

i, britt, am a dumbass who knows nothing, so please just assume that she's treating them well.]

[ I DO NOT CONTROL THE DI(C)E BRITT

it's alright, i'm taking only an hour of stabilization because someone is being kind and using a gumball on her it's okay. ]

... At the cost of letting a few people die, those you care about... would you do it...? To save everyone else on the star?

[ despite the reassurance, the comfort, it is hard to move on from what she saw. what they did. what had.. happened. who had-- ]

[(screams in trolley problems)]

...I don't know.

[jiuqing fears losing the people she cares about more than anything else. she's not sure if that's a choice she would be able to make. but she can't imagine meteion is asking for no reason, either, and she pats her hand gently as she works on her wounds.]

Is that what this place did to you...? Put you in a situation like that, and made you choose?

..Not... choose. From the beginning, since I took up, my sword I... I knew what I had to do.

[ carefully, she pulls out what seems to be.. a keychain? but it's got a particular sword design. her now tiny sword.... ] The sword was... like me. It felt my emotions, and I felt theirs as well. It.. mourned with me. Over the losses we had. After I saw... Clartie die, and.

It was a strong feeling. That.. I had to see the mission through. That the army that we were with.. had to lose. That the death of the.. people [ our friends, her emotions feel mourn and pain ] in the tent, in the camp, will save the lives of billions more.

It was so.. heavy, the weight.. crushing, but I still had it in my mind, that "this is what it means to be what we are." I felt that, even if it meant losing those close to me... it was worth it, to save everyone else. [ she looks to her hands. ] It was such.. an easy decision at the time. But... only two of us, felt that way.

[ two. out of the three. ]

...

[nooooooooooooooooo, baby bird]

So the one who didn't feel like that... they must have tried to stop you. [her heart goes out to her - this sounds like such a difficult situation. in the moment, it might have felt like she only had one duty, that she had to do what she did, that there wasn't really any other choice.

but now...] I'm so sorry, Miss Meteion.

..They did. I.. did manage to get resurrected but.. [ her hand hovers over her chest, where there was clear stab wound right to her heart. not fatal here- not as deep, but back in that place... ] We doomed a star to death, because we couldn't stop him..

[ her eyes are a bit glossy with tears, but she shakes her head. ]

I don't blame them, though. I couldn't... their sword, was corrupted and twisted their mind, changed them. Forced them to do something they didn't want to... I know he wouldn't have, had he been in control.

[ her body is.. exhausted. ]

[noooooo.

jiuqing wants to hug her, but she's still so injured, that would probably just risk hurting her. so instead, she finds some part of her that isn't too badly hurt and gives her a gentle pat, then resumes treating some of the injuries so that she can at least rest without being in too much pain later.]

...it wasn't him, it was this place. And it wasn't that you did anything to doom anyone...

[that was just this place, too.]

You tried your best to help, right...? Prompto mentioned that you protected him...

[ she can take her hand, though a bit scraped- it isn't too bad. she'll let her resume to bandaging though, wincing and sucking in a breath now and then.]

..They said it, wasn't real but. [ it felt so, so real. ]

I tried... but, that's exactly how I... the first time.. [ there's worry, guilt. she's worried he may think it's his fault. it was anything but, she just-- wanted to at least save one of them. ]

...if it felt that way, you'll still carry that with you. If it feels real, that's enough.

[jiuqing knows. her expression and her vibes are sympathetic as she continues with meteion's wounds. god i'm so sad for this baby bird.]

But we'll help you carry that. And I think... [she can feel that worry and guilt. oh, emotionshare week.] ...it's not a bad thing, to want to protect people. But it's also not a bad thing for them to want to protect you.

All of this hurts so much... but it only hurts as much as it does because you care about each other. The three of you will definitely get through this.

[ it only hurts as much as it does because you care about each other. that's something that Meteion has known for quite a long time now, has felt that way with Hermes. more so here now... with so many more people she's come to care about, but.

she wouldn't want it any other way. she listens quietly, wiping at her eyes as she tries to steady her breaths. she can feel that worry and guilt but... it's no different from what she's been feeling since she's come back. at least it's in a more manageable amount now. ]

..I think, we can get through it, too. Even if it's... really hard. We all have those that care for us here. [ but.. ] Can you, check on Prompto and Aymeric for me..? I, I want to make sure they'll be okay, too. I don't.. I don't want them to feel like they could have done anything else. We.. I think we did the best, we could, in the end.

[she nods]

...of course. I'll look after them.

[she would even if meteion hadn't asked, but - especially because she's asked, she'll do it.]

chroma | catchall for meteion

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