New Arrival

[thekidsare0kay]

Who: Sollux Captor and ANYONE!
Where: By the coral
When: Today
Format: Starting in prose but I'm happy to follow your lead
Status: Open as Sollux' gaping ocular sockets

He was killing himself. He could feel it in the intense pain that exploded across his think pan like someone was jabbing two culling forks through his eye sockets and then wiggling them around inside his brain.

He was sure he had killed himself. He sort of hoped he had killed himself, because living with that kind of damage was going to suck serious hoofbeast testicles.

And then he'd expected to hopefully find himself safe and sound in the bubbles, where he could spend eternity reliving the few good moments he'd had in his short life and leave the universe-saving and misery to someone else. What he hadn't expected was a whole lot of water, and confusion and a lot of voices, none of which were familiar. It sounded like he'd suddenly landed himself in the middle of a city.

Frightened and confused, he pushed himself up, coughing up a lungful of sea water and yellow blood, and felt around helplessly, searching for something, anything familiar. "Hello?" he called out, but not too loud. Karkat, Kanaya, Terezi and Gamzee had been right there. Why wasn't anyone saying anything to him?

"What happened?"

Comments

[bestestfurrend]

"Pfft, you didn't see me, I was awful. But I'm better now, so it's okay." She lingered just a few seconds longer and then let go. "You get comfortable and I'll go get you the rest of the things for your pile!"

[thekidsare0kay]

"Okay," he agreed, shifting to stretch out on the rectangle and tried to get comfortable. It wasn't that hard. Even without a pile to lie on, he fluffed up the pillows and sprawled out and was ready to doze almost immediately.

[bestestfurrend]

She was quiet when she came in again, just in case he'd already fallen asleep, whispering "I brought your things, Sollux," so that he'd know it was her on the off-chance he wasn't, not wanting to scare him. She placed a large armful of tangled up wires and extra cushions and even a broken keyboard she'd found somewhere next to him, guessing that he'd rather fashion them into a proper pile himself.

[thekidsare0kay]

He muttered as she entered, half waking but not really conscious. In a daze, he grabbed the tangle and pushed and prodded and rearranged by feel, then flopped over the new pile and fell instantly to sleep once more.

[bestestfurrend]

It was a relief to see him resting at last, and tactfully she tiptoed away as soon as she saw him building himself his pile. But she had every intention of remaining within earshot until he woke up again, as long as it may take. Just because they weren't the closest of friends didn't mean she wasn't going to do whatever she could to try and help him out.