004✖; (audio @ hot.damn | August 2nd; during Sanguis Moon)

[circumitus]

[...Well, it looks like there's supposed to be video, but the screen is black.

[Audio-wise, you're privy to just a bunch of thrashing for a few seconds, catching a frantic and frustrated "god-DAMMIT" and "fuck fuck fuck" and "just move, you useless piece of shit!" It's a voice and string of expletives that should be familiar to some who know Rey. In general it sounds disconcerting, with an identifiable amount of metal clanging and other hefty objects hurling about (cue stock cat scream) -- before a heavy thud shakes the screen. The feed drags across what looks to be pavement and some scattered rubbish.]

Got you! Fucking finally...

[The video moves, but the feed remains a blur as Rey hadn't intended to select facetime before things got out of control -- by "things" meaning... her own body. Only a few details can be made out in the bleary visual quality, and that's a patch of red-orange scales and some sharp, gritting teeth.]

Need... help. [Despite her exhaustion made clear in the fraught audio and her labored breaths, it's speaking those words in particular that strains her the most.]

Have to come here. Level Three.

Legs're gone. Can't walk.

[Both the audio and visual then cuts abruptly. As you can tell, Rey is having a bad time this Sanguis cycle.]

Comments

[gwenhwyfar]

[ Oh, she knows that voice. And briefly recalls it was this is the voice that had once reeled her in control. She furrows her brows -- is she inferring her legs are missing? Flabbergasted, she blurts out- ]

Cachu hwch?! ... I mean- what?

[ It's terrible that she wants to see this for herself, isn't it? ]

At least tell me that you're not bleeding heavily.

[circumitus]

Uh, no, not really.

[She realizes how it must have sound in her initial SOS call, though she wasn't really thinking about it at the time. Phrasing was kind of the last thing on her mind.]

It's not like... Legs aren't cut off or anything. They're just, ah. One big ass tail.

[Something crashes in the background, likely from the aforementioned tail knocking over a heavy object.]

[gwenhwyfar]

... Oh.

[ Still, she wonders what sort of moon causes someone to have a tail. ]

I genuinely feared that you lost a limb and that I was about to offer you my condolences. That is to say... I don't think losing an eye is like losing a limb, but it still smarts.

Dare I ask that you need assistance or did someone beat me to it?

[circumitus]

Ah, well. Thought's appreciated, but it's fine. Have lost an eye before, anyway. [Pause.] And... an arm. Leg. Various organs, too.

...

Actually, have lost whole bodies. Hurt like hell each time.

[Clearly there is a story to that. Mostly due to being a consciousness that remembers dying in several horrible ways. Yay.

[Okay okay, Gwen is making a kind offer and Rey isn't sure how to address that and talking about dying and missing body parts is easier, but she's not that rude.]

Have some help, but, um... company can't hurt. Don't want to bother so many people, though. [Of course that's her main concern. It's bad enough having to ask for help in the first place.]