"She's nice!" Fen answers, practically radiating flowers before glancing back down at Twelve on the ground.
"Um, can you maybe be alive and not be dead?" They ask, sounding incredibly curious. A second after they ask it, Twelve's body is gone from the ground and the post-its are in the air.
And it's all immediately a nightmare again. Twelve is back, and she's everywhere. Her body is a like a massive centipede, twelve legs(?) jutting out all along the tree-trunk sized body. The head, though, is a set of twelve pincers surrounded by twelve eyes, and the last four of her limbs are reared up and back as she looks down at Fen, Five, and Gyre. Even just the four limbs, her body is up easily ten feet in the air with the remaining twenty feet of body and limbs on the ground. Is that a pincer or a stinger at the other end? Oh fuck. Once again, her voice comes as a whisper to everyone's ears but there's more of a hiss to it.
"Never dead. Always alive." She answers, which is deeply unsettling to everyone including Five who is staring wide-eyed at Twelve's form. It's Fen that breaks up the mood as they excitedly declare:
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"She's nice!" Fen answers, practically radiating flowers before glancing back down at Twelve on the ground.
"Um, can you maybe be alive and not be dead?" They ask, sounding incredibly curious. A second after they ask it, Twelve's body is gone from the ground and the post-its are in the air.
And it's all immediately a nightmare again. Twelve is back, and she's everywhere. Her body is a like a massive centipede, twelve legs(?) jutting out all along the tree-trunk sized body. The head, though, is a set of twelve pincers surrounded by twelve eyes, and the last four of her limbs are reared up and back as she looks down at Fen, Five, and Gyre. Even just the four limbs, her body is up easily ten feet in the air with the remaining twenty feet of body and limbs on the ground. Is that a pincer or a stinger at the other end? Oh fuck. Once again, her voice comes as a whisper to everyone's ears but there's more of a hiss to it.
"Never dead. Always alive." She answers, which is deeply unsettling to everyone including Five who is staring wide-eyed at Twelve's form. It's Fen that breaks up the mood as they excitedly declare:
"Thank you!" For not being dead, presumably?