005 - Fifth Bell [Action/Video]

[siryms_echo]

[Anodrac's video feed starts abruptly; the book is thrown against a tree, opening just enough to catch the winged woman crumpling to her knees, hands clamped over her large ears. Underneath the disheveled locks of hair hanging over her face is an expression of unbearable pain, tears streaming from the corners of her clenched-shut eyes.]

It hurts. It hurts, it hurts, it hurts...

[Her voice seems even softer than usual, so much so that the journal barely picks it up. To Anodrac, however, her own voice is unbearably loud; everything seems so much louder than before, even the barely-audible rustling of the wind through the trees. Her ears are picking up every sound around her now, overloading her senses to the point of painful disorientation.]

Make it stop. Make it stop...

[Her pleading eventually stops, and she makes her way over to the journal. Reaching out pitifully, she closes it, cutting off the feed.]

[Quite some time later, she has finally made herself out of the woods, and is one of the roads on her way home -- more specifically, she's just managed to pass house 55. At times she's walking, albeit slowly and unsteadily; other times, she's collapsed onto her knees again, trying to keep her head from exploding with pain.]

((OOC: As a side effect of the Mallynapping, Anodrac's got hyper-sensitive hearing, even for her own species. So, for those that would encounter her on her agonizing trek home, it might not be too noticeable at first...))

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[Action]

[semper_cogitans]

[Robert spends a significant amount of time in House 55's garden plot when he's busying himself around the house. Because of how isolated House 55 is, people don't often come that way, so seeing anybody is strange enough.

Seeing Anodrac definitely is. And even Robert can read that expression of horrifying pain. But he doesn't know where it comes from, yet.]

A-Anodrac...?

[Luckily, his voice isn't too loud, as he approaches her... but it will probably still be very painful.]

[Video]

[lina-revolution.livejournal.com]

H-Hey, Anodrac! Stay with me, all right? I'm on my way!

[And indeed, she is, racing out of her apartment in Building 3 and quickly down the stairs.]