[Kesara watches the message the first time, and doesn't understand it. She watches it a second time, and understands it, and doesn't believe it. She watches it a third time.
She sits with her back to the wall while the world spins around her, full of confusion and darkness and Kunsel's whirling numbers and odds, and feels like the wall is tipping over and tumbling into an abyss.
After a time that her tablet tells her is just ten minutes, but the tablet must be lying because it must have been months, she tries to reply. She switches her voice function on. She starts to say how, but there's a strange sound in her ears, like a tiny, breathless, broken wail, the noise of an small animal in physical pain. It's only when she runs out of air that she realises that sound is coming from her.]
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Date: 2016-09-05 09:49 pm (UTC)She sits with her back to the wall while the world spins around her, full of confusion and darkness and Kunsel's whirling numbers and odds, and feels like the wall is tipping over and tumbling into an abyss.
After a time that her tablet tells her is just ten minutes, but the tablet must be lying because it must have been months, she tries to reply. She switches her voice function on. She starts to say how, but there's a strange sound in her ears, like a tiny, breathless, broken wail, the noise of an small animal in physical pain. It's only when she runs out of air that she realises that sound is coming from her.]