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chang "nice satan" geng ([personal profile] impurities) wrote2022-02-12 10:59 pm
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-04-09 12:19 am (UTC)(link)
We aren't alone. We'll face tomorrow, whatever comes - but not a single one of us will be facing it alone.

[she's here with him, right now; in other parts of the prism, the others are surely gathering, making their own preparations, reaffirming their support for each other - and trying to keep themselves within their own control.

jiuqing doesn't exactly relax, because chang geng is so tense - but having him near is steadying and fortifying. she just hopes she can provide some of that same feeling to him, too.]


...I'm here with you. [her voice is soft.] How can I best help you right now, Chang Geng?

[if it's just being here with him, and reminding him that he's not alone - that's fine.

if it's distracting him, with conversation or some sorts of preparations they can make - they should probably gather supplies from the medbay while they can, who knows when they might lose access to it - that's fine, too.

she still has her acupuncture needles, though she's a little hesitant to suggest it; they're for healing, but anything can be a weapon, in the right hands. still, if he wants that...

what she wants most is to support him. so she'll support him however she can.]
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-04-09 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
[she closes her eyes, briefly, at the honesty, and with their fingers laced together, she gives his hand a gentle squeeze.

she won't take any risks, tonight. she won't part from him, and try to use color in a different part of the prism, only to come back cold and desaturated. she'll stay by his side as they make their preparations for the morning, as close to him as he wants.

it helps him - but it helps her, too, to have him this close. the warmth of him, the feel of his hands over hers, is a very physical reminder of his presence, and it helps her heart internalize what her head already knows: that he won't leave her alone.

come what may, they'll face this together.]


I won't leave you. [her voice is soft, but - she's certain. she won't let anything part her from him tonight.] I promise, too.

If we go anywhere, we'll go together.
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-04-09 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
[he shifts, and she lets go of him so that he can turn - but it really is only for a moment, because once he's facing her, she takes one of his hands again, then goes up on her tiptoes as her other hand comes up to cup his cheek.

her touch is very gentle, and the kiss she gives him even more so - an apology, perhaps, for having to let go of him even for a second.]


...the medical bay first, then.

[her voice comes out in what's almost a whisper as she considers it. this feeling of restlessness, of needing to do something, is nearly overwhelming, but it's always been when she's at her most overwhelmed that she's had to get her mind working. it's how she's survived.

here and now, just edging on the early stages of refraction, is no different.]


We can gather supplies. The greenhouse, next. I harvested many of the plants there at the beginning of the week, but left some cuttings; we can retrieve some of the fresh yarrow to make poultices.
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[personal profile] countermeasures 2022-04-09 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
[plans. strategy.

jiuqing has to remind herself to focus, first when he chases after the kiss as she's pulling back (would it really be so bad to kiss him again? maybe the distraction would help?), but he refocuses himself, and that helps her to do so as well.

but then his hand comes to her waist, and he pulls her close; he leans in, and she feels his lips against the corner of her mouth, feels the closeness of him against her cheek. he'll likely feel it when her cheeks flush with warmth - he must, she thinks, because she can certainly feel her face heating up.

strategy.]


...that's a good idea. We have plenty of combatants, but many of them do seem to specialize in, ah... getting up close and personal with people.

[she gives the hand that she's holding a small squeeze. onward. they may have the relearn the layout of the nodes, now - since they have to take these doors that connect one to the other, rather than just going back to the central one to find the archways - but that's fine. they can figure this out. they're both reasonably intelligent people.]