tearmeanewone | SEIZE + [Action/Audio]

[September 22nd - 24th]

[Locked to BioShock Infinitely Guilty House]

[Just by looking at the network, anyone would be able to tell that the anomalies in Luceti are coming faster and are starting to affect residents in stranger ways. Somehow, Elizabeth, Gai, Booker, Robert, and Rosalind's house has escaped unscathed. Until now.]

[One quiet, lazy morning, Elizabeth wakes up her husband by wrapping her arms around him from behind. Only as far as she's concerned, they aren't married. Very close, yes, she sings nearly every song he writes-- sometimes even the ones he doesn't write for her to sing. But more importantly, there are some serious-looking crystals growing from her severed pinky all the way up to her shoulder.]

Good morning, darling~

((OOC: If anyone wants to spot Elizabeth running around town with a half-crystalized arm and way longer hair, FEEL FREE. 8Db She'll be at her AU-self's usual haunts: Good Spirits, the library, and doing various gunbattle simulations in the Battle Dome.))

[September 25th - 28th]

[Locked to BioShock Infinitely Guilty House]

[Nobody gets a break. On the morning of the 25th, Elizabeth isn't in her bed. Though there's some smears of blood left on her pillow. She's standing in Booker's room, watching him sleep almost as though she can't believe he's there. She's absolutely still, as though saying something would break the illusion.]

[Wherever she's come from, she looks like she's been through hell. Blood all down one side of her face, bruising and blood at the inner corner of her left eye, her clothes have been practically shredded. Standing and watching Booker looking like this probably isn't the best plan, but...]

[Action]

[The last time this version of Elizabeth had been in Luceti, there was definitely more firm purpose to her step. This time, after cleaning herself up, Elizabeth wanders around the village as though she barely recognizes where she is. Or she's in awe of it. Or afraid that it's going to suddenly start storming and the entire village is going to catch fire. Over and over again, she bends and pulls at her fully-formed pinky. Maybe she shouldn't be making excursions into the village like this, but... it would no doubt be the last time she saw it.]

[Audio - Locked to Eleanor]

I'm sorry Eleanor, I need to talk to you one more time.

Threaded | Flat

[Of all the voices to hear on her journal, that was the last one she expected. So familiar, yet...so different. She was never going to forget that voice.]

...Elizabeth?

[Booker hasn't ever stopped sleeping with a weapon since coming to Luceti. The place has made it clear that it's just as bad as the real world. He's gone from keeping a pistol or knife under his pillow to just hanging his holster behind the headboard in a way he can easily reach it.

It's more comfortable at least.

He's completely unaware that Elizabeth is standing over him, bloodied and bruised as she is. It appears that the now all too customary nightmares he's suffered from for months now begin to wake him up after thirty or so minutes of her standing over him.

All he remembers as he wakes is the sound of wings beating against the air and that mechanical screech coming from somewhere too close. He should have seen Songbird but all he could see was red....

it was strange enough to make him wake with a quiet jerk of motion.

He lays there for a few seconds before even noticing her there and when he does, he half reaches for the gun before registering who it is...]

Elizabeth?

[His voice scratches out as he squints at her, trying to make her out in the dark is stupid so he turns on the light by his bed and:]

Jesus Christ, what happened to you?!

[It gets him leaping out of bed and has his hands hovering close to her face - like he's not sure if he could touch her without something horrible happening. God, there was so much blood.]

[Kurt's sitting on a bench by the fountain, casually looking through a box of CDs he found at the item shop, for stuff he could play at HQ. He doesn't notice someone's approach.

very tag
much setup]

[Robert gives Elizabeth space once he catches a glimpse of her. Lets her go out, see this world.

And then... is waiting for her when she returns.

Not in any obvious way, no, but he has a tea set out and a pot all ready. Just in case.]

[Audio - locked]

Action part duex

[Action]

action, September 25th late afternoon?