hold your pretty head high ( open )

[antepone]

Who: Mira, you. A few closed prompts.
What: the eventening
When: throughout the event.
Where: all over Umui.
Warnings: death. gore. will update with more!
Notes: lmk if you want a starter. i'll also match format!

august 5-9.

[ In some ways, it feels familiar. She's not really thrilled about that; the fear of succumbing to something she can't control is terrifying. Something pricks at the back of her mind, flashes of an old memory clawing to the surface--

beneath the ground, surrounded by darkness and decay and the slow sound of something heavy growing closer

--she closes her eyes and shakes her head. Focuses on other things. She doesn't dare go back to Enso; she doesn't know if she'd infect others who, luckily, haven't been. Her food's running a bit low, but she's still got quite a bit. So. If she sees someone around, she'll come over with a smile. She's a little dizzy from walking so much, but she manages to not fall over. ]

Are you hungry?

[ ... of course, aside from trying to take care of people, she's... not doing much of that for herself. Often, she has to take a break to curl up somewhere quiet. Mira's started coughing up flower petals, and that? Seeing the blood-soaked violet petals?

It's terrifying. So much that she's not particularly aware of much else. ]

august 10-16.

[ It's getting much worse.

The flowers grow along her skin, bursting forth around her wrists and throat. She's in a lot of pain, and she doesn't really move from her spot near the mana pool on Umui. She can't move, exactly. Not without a lot of hurting. Still, she puts on a brave face, sits up (visibly wincing, naturally) if she notices someone coming along. ]

How are you doing?

[ It's a foolish question, but. It's fine. ]

Comments

[thegoofball]

[Returned...He gets that, even though he came back with memories of this place. He just...didn't know that he had been gone to begin with.]

Oh...I mean, that's how Kaltenecker showed up. [He clears his throat, coughs, turns his head to spit out the petals that have filled his mouth.] Just here when I got back. Guess that's just how things work here.

[antepone]

[ She's quiet, for a while. ]

She knew me. She... seemed like she'd been waiting for me. But I've never had a cat like her before.

[thegoofball]

Huh...

[That's a little strange, definitely peculiar.]

I'm sure she's just happy to have you around, even if she knew you before or not.

cw for The Bloods

[antepone]

... You're right.

[ She turns her head t cough, roughly and wetly, and the force if it makes her double over. The coughing lasts more than a few moments, this time, and by the time she's finished, her lips are red with blood. ]

I... I'm sorry.

[thegoofball]

Hey, hey.

[The blood is concerning, but even more so is...Mira.]

You don't need to be sorry for this. It's- It's okay.

[antepone]

[ It's not... at least, she can't bring herself to think it is. Right now, all she wants is to lay down and sleep until this whole thing is finished... ]

... Y-you're right. It'll be okay.

[ She reaches over to squeeze his hand. It hurts, but she's so tired and achey and she's always been more of a physical person than most people she knows. ]

We'll get through this, right?