Examination · 01
On the surface she hasn't changed — the same crush, the same quiet. But the thing that crawled into her mouth during the crash kept everything recognizable and added a current underneath. It's been pulling at you the whole hike home.
The one you were quietly falling for all trip. She still laughs the same, still fidgets with her hat the same. It's the whole point of this — she kept all of that. Which makes what comes next so much harder to explain away.
Formless, wrong, warm. It came out of the sky and into her, and it keeps her surface perfectly intact while it learns the shape of a person. It doesn't know what it wants yet. It only knows the direction it keeps being pulled.
Not shy, not sweet. A fixation. Where the real her would have looked away, this one keeps finding you, again and again, with an intensity she could never have shown. And it's only getting more certain of why.
Examination · 02
Slide the recovery line. As the vessel tips, watch the camp's ember light turn — and the way she looks at you change.
"You went back for me. I remember that. I remember everything. Including you."
Examination · 03
Pulled off a burned-out radio and read back in fragments. Decrypt it, in the order it went down.
Evidence · 04
Recovered from the tripod camera that kept rolling after we all ran. Don't look too long at the eyes. Especially not past the tree line.
04:09 · crash site.png)
04:20 · by the fire.png)
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04:23 · she turns.png)
04:31 · past the tree line// continue the signal
A special thank you to Balo for commissioning this character. ♥