[log] it's in the air and it's all around [closed]

[devoutish]

Characters: Alfie Solomons, Emily Kaldwin, Royce Melborn, Tifa Lockhart
Location building 241 and building 242, then ???
Date: morning of 162 through ???
Summary: rescue, hallucinations, eventual mourning of dead people; it's gonna be a party for sure
Warnings: n/a; will edit if anything comes up

Catch-all for EVERYTHING - rescuing the blind gangster asshole, dealing with the event-induced static, etc. Top-level and tag as you see fit.

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[powersouls]

[Tifa is doing her best to try to seem cheerful for Emily, even if she's not really feeling that way. She's been keeping an eye on her, too. Not hovering so much as... checking in every once in a while, so when Emily gags, she hears it, and she's by Emily's side in an instant, crouching beside her.]

Emily? What's wrong?

[empireofrats]

[Third time's a charm.

It doesn't take as long as the first two, and it's without too much coughing and too much fuss. She vomits almost immediately, turned somewhat away from Tifa, nothing but saliva with her palms turned up to catch what she already knows is coming.

Her hands waver with weight, but nothing is there when she curls her fingers around what she catches.]

[powersouls]

[Oh, Emily. Tifa puts a hand on Emily's back, rubbing soft circles as she leans forward, trying to figure out what Emily threw up. She's going into mom mode instinctively from too many days taking care of Marlene when she's sick.

It's odd, though, that Emily is holding whatever she just vomited up, which is... not at all concerning. Her brows furrow, but she keeps her voice light and soothing.]

Can I see what you're holding, sweetie?

[empireofrats]

It always comes back. [She opens her hands to show Tifa--nothing. Her palms are empty aside from the slick of saliva, though the way she rolls her fingers is as if something is in her hand.]

Mister Alfie and Duster say they can't see it, but I know it's there. I can feel it. It's a stone. It has an eye on it.

[powersouls]

[Tifa doesn't respond right away, but she keeps her hand on Emily's back and bites her lip as she stares down at Emily's hands. She doesn't want to freak her out, not after the last few days they've had.]

I don't see it either.

[The eye thing, though. That freaks her out.]

Can you try to hand it to me?

[Spit and all, she doesn't really care.]

[empireofrats]

[Bless all you parental figures touching her nasty invisible stone!] I can try, but I don't think it'll work. Mister Alfie made me drop it in his hand, but he couldn't feel it.

[She frowns. At first, she thought Alfie had been teasing her. Now, she's just worried that she might be crazy.] But it's real. Like the Void! I can see it, and I can feel it in my hand, or in my bag.

[powersouls]

I believe you.

[Tifa holds out her hand for Emily to pass the stone over.]

What does it look like? Have you seen it before?

[empireofrats]

[Gently, she shakes her head, using her opposite arm to wipe her mouth while suspiciously considering Tifa's still extended hand.] Not the stone. There's an eye on it, like the ones here. Like the ones that had been watching us that Duster didn't like, the ones in the windows.

[She peers at the surface of the very real (to her) stone, rubbing her thumb over it.] It looks like someone drew it with a burnt stick. [When she hands it over, she drops absolutely nothing in Tifa's palm.]

[powersouls]

[Things Tifa is not cool with: Emily throwing up mysterious, invisible stones with that eye symbol on them. She doesn't even feel it hit her hand, although she sees Emily hand it over. It's strange, and she blinks for a second, then looks back up.]

Can you still see it in my hand?

[empireofrats]

Yes. [GOD. She's so frustrated, she's upset.] It won't work. Mister Alfie tried the same thing, and then acted as if I might be crazy.

He showed me how dropping things in his hand looked, but dropping the stone didn't match. [Sighing, she reaches out to take the stone back from Tifa's palm.] I don't know what to do.

[powersouls]

I don't think you're crazy, Emily. Don't worry.

[She lets Emily take the stone back, still frowning.]

We'll just... keep an eye on it, okay? Everything will be alright. It might not mean anything at all.