[Eiji doesn't speak, once he's turned around. He'd tried to turn around quicker, but the floor had slipped underneath him--not his feet slipping on the floor, definitely the other way around--and then felt it splash all over him. And knew immediately what it was.
It was bad when he was able to turn around. Horrific. Crushed. Blood. Bones. Flat. In the war, he'd been spared from seeing that, if only because there was usually rubble on top, and he'd never been on the recovery line.
Nothing had fallen, perse, but that was the only thing his mind could register--something from the ceiling, it was going to fall again, he had to get them out of the way. He looked up, but there was nothing to have fallen to be seen. It's broken, yes, but nothing fell.
But he saw the sword retreating into the ceiling tile and it closing up.]
Another... There's another...
[Another creature? But it seems pacified now, only interested in taking out the threat to Daisuke.
He rushes over to Souji and puts his fingers against his one remaining, crushed, flattened arm, numbly feeling for a pulse. It's equal relief and horror when he can't find one--Souji's not alive to feel this, but there's absolutely nothing Eiji can do to help.]
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It was bad when he was able to turn around. Horrific. Crushed. Blood. Bones. Flat. In the war, he'd been spared from seeing that, if only because there was usually rubble on top, and he'd never been on the recovery line.
Nothing had fallen, perse, but that was the only thing his mind could register--something from the ceiling, it was going to fall again, he had to get them out of the way. He looked up, but there was nothing to have fallen to be seen. It's broken, yes, but nothing fell.
But he saw the sword retreating into the ceiling tile and it closing up.]
Another... There's another...
[Another creature? But it seems pacified now, only interested in taking out the threat to Daisuke.
He rushes over to Souji and puts his fingers against his one remaining, crushed, flattened arm, numbly feeling for a pulse. It's equal relief and horror when he can't find one--Souji's not alive to feel this, but there's absolutely nothing Eiji can do to help.]