[ Yeah. Topic change. Simon leans hard into the topic change. Jesus can they get out of this embarrassing photo album of a hallway. Hank’s not the worst person to have hearing it, but “nobody” would be preferable. ]
I guess it worked out, at first. It just went rogue somehow after the comet hit, trying to—
[ They turn the corner. Down the only hallway, there’s an intersection — more corridors with doors at the ends, Simon can assume, but he doesn’t recognize these ones. In the middle of it, back turned to them in the dim lighting, a young woman stands stooped over in underwear and a bloodstained tank top, sobbing raggedly into her hands. ]
Shit. [ Simon stops in his tracks, backs up and kinda flaps an arm until he gets a Hank part, to still him. Without looking at him to see if that’s actually necessary, since his eyes are glued on the girl.
Her shoulders are hunched, posture small, that way you’d probably have seen at a police station, where you’d probably put a blanket around her. She’d almost look normal from this angle if not for the oddly-shaped foot, the strange spiky shapes protruding from her shoulders, the glowing spots down the sides of her legs like incandescent chicken pox. ]
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I guess it worked out, at first. It just went rogue somehow after the comet hit, trying to—
[ They turn the corner. Down the only hallway, there’s an intersection — more corridors with doors at the ends, Simon can assume, but he doesn’t recognize these ones. In the middle of it, back turned to them in the dim lighting, a young woman stands stooped over in underwear and a bloodstained tank top, sobbing raggedly into her hands. ]
Shit. [ Simon stops in his tracks, backs up and kinda flaps an arm until he gets a Hank part, to still him. Without looking at him to see if that’s actually necessary, since his eyes are glued on the girl.
Her shoulders are hunched, posture small, that way you’d probably have seen at a police station, where you’d probably put a blanket around her. She’d almost look normal from this angle if not for the oddly-shaped foot, the strange spiky shapes protruding from her shoulders, the glowing spots down the sides of her legs like incandescent chicken pox. ]