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[seeingscarlet]

[The camera's pointed at the ceiling at first, and for a few seconds there is only Wanda's ragged breathing. When she finally gets it centered on her face, it's obvious she is terrified and near tears. If Elizabeth hadn't been there...]

I saw it. That thing...

It-- he was like us and he changed and he can't go back. Doesn't want to go back.

[She buries her head in her other hand.] How can I make you understand? It would drain us all, kill us all if it can because it can. Because it likes the pain and the fear and...

[There's no hiding the rising note of panic in her voice and Wanda needs a few breaths to try to sort of compose herself again. It doesn't work.]

I felt it kill them...

Stay out of the dark.

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[hellsbel]

Please don't tell me there are universes where black holes can think.

[it's clear, though, that the metaphor has gone through. yikes. there's always that moment on a deep-space ship when the jump starts and you feel it in your belly, a sick warping endlessness, and it's either getting you there or killing you already--]

[a new and horrible idea] You don't still feel it, right? Can you -- shut it out?

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[seeingscarlet]

[If only it was that simple.]

I can't feel what it's doing now...but it was there. It's cold and -- [It's like coming in from a snowy day; the bad feelings linger even if the connection's severed.] I can't push that out. Not without help.

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[hellsbel]

[shudders] We're on our way. Loki's coming with me.

[she's not talking about the lingering physical cold, is she. not without help... would be happy to shoot the monster for her, but to pull it out of her mind.... glances briefly out of the frame, seeing whether Loki has anything to say.] I wish I had a blanket for that. We'll be there in a moment, okay?

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[seeingscarlet]

Stay out of the dark. [Why yes, she did just said that when she was babbling. Wanda doesn't quite remember if she did, but it's Very Important.]

The lights went out before it...it... [Two emotional steps forward, one step back.]