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

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[...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.]

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[If Rey had even fabricated memories of riding a bike for the first time, she might have something to compare this experience to. As it is, none of her past selves were gifted with such a nice family life -- the less reasons she had to seek them out, the less complicated it would be to keep the wool pulled over her eyes so most of her previous incarnations had no idea what they truly were.

[It's little moments like those that Rey lacked what her brother had, but that's okay. It's fine. Everything's fine. She's okay with that.

[For now, it's all about learning to take control of her own body again, and not obsess so much over every little muscle and tendon that she's now got extra of.]

Heh, think so.

[She gives it a try, pushing back to "stand" on her one tail, doing her best to channel some strength into keeping -- at least her human half -- vertical. It's disorienting, looming even taller than her actual height (about six feet off the ground), but it beats eating dirt.]

[deliveryhawk]

[Takao is lucky, he has had a charmed life in comparison, a solid family, good schools, basketball, and other clubs. Friends, until he arrived in Prisma he had never experienced anything all that weird or traumatizing.

Sure, this place has done a thing or two to him since then but in general, he is holding in okay. Then again, he got lucky here too because he has his best friend who while a big grump on the outside has taken good care of him.

Maybe Rey doesn't know her family but seems like she is in a good place to build one and this guy could use some friends, so he'll stick around and hang out some times if she'd like.

That is exactly it because he thinks if she stops thinking and moves, her body has more instinct than it knows. It makes sense, his ears and tail know to respond to his moods. He does not control them but he can stop them when he tries. But they definitely read his body cues.]

It's like my grandma used to say, "One who chases after two hares won't even catch one."

[It makes more sense in his native language but it is a way of saying trying to do two things at once will make you fail about both. If she is trying to walk like a human and a snake, it's clearly going to fail. But if she focuses, well he can feel her taking some of her weight so it's definitely doing something.

The point guard doesn't go far but he does turn to look over his shoulder and give her a big grin.]

Check you out! Amazing.