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[personal profile] averytinyparticle 2018-03-09 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
No...no! No!

[Quark tries to grab her, but his hand never reaches her. It never finds purchase. And all at once she's gone, a pinprick in his vision, her words lingering long, long after she's been swallowed up by the darkness. And there he is, still halfway hung over the ledge, grasping for nothing.]

Diana! Diana! Please! Diana?

[But he knows even as he calls for her that no answer is coming. And it's his fault, all his fault. She wouldn't have fallen if he hadn't been so careless. If he hadn't been listening to that voice. The voice that he knows is bad. What's wrong with him? How could he let this happen? Tears well up in Quark's eyes, his throat tightening as his breath hitches.]

Come back.