[The scene starts off in a familiar way only from a new point of view. This is Biffy's point of view inside his under water prison as water floods in. You feel panicked as you try to keep your head above the water, looking out at a naked Conall and Lyall in the water working to free you. Then the glass explodes and there's nothing but water. You attempt to get one last gulp of air and only breathe water. Your chest burns and you try to cough and breathe more water in the process...
The image goes blurry as it seems to distort. Voices not clear. Water rushing around. Images of bodies you can't process. You can't move. What is going on? The world is spinning and you can't tell what that means.
Then warmth fills you and in a sudden crash of senses you cough and terrible tasting water expels from your lungs. More coughing and your brain tries to process what is happening. You're being held? You're wet? Vision blurry, unable to understand what is happening you say one thing:]
Do I know you?
[More is happening around you. But the man holding you answers.]
I’m Professor Lyall. We have met before. Remember the aethographor and the tea? How do you do?
Where's-?
[You don't finish your sentence. You look down to see blood on your stomach, where the pain is. Is that...your blood? Were you...shot? No. That can't be real. You cry out and you writhe in agony, tears on your face as you hear more gunfire around you and a man with the head of a wolf near you. And just like that the man holding you reaches down into your gut for the bullet and that's all you can handle.
Everything goes dark.
And then everything lights up again. Everything is agony. It's like your entire body is breaking and destroying itself even as you see the world clearer than you ever have, smell it better than you ever have. Then your cry turns into a howl that sounds like a wolf until you're collapsed, panting from it all......
The scene fades and Lyall is back in the shop with Biffy tilting his head a bit.]
No. I have a feeling that wasn't the right choice after all...
cw: violence, gun wounds, mild gore
The image goes blurry as it seems to distort. Voices not clear. Water rushing around. Images of bodies you can't process. You can't move. What is going on? The world is spinning and you can't tell what that means.
Then warmth fills you and in a sudden crash of senses you cough and terrible tasting water expels from your lungs. More coughing and your brain tries to process what is happening. You're being held? You're wet? Vision blurry, unable to understand what is happening you say one thing:]
Do I know you?
[More is happening around you. But the man holding you answers.]
I’m Professor Lyall. We have met before. Remember the aethographor and the tea? How do you do?
Where's-?
[You don't finish your sentence. You look down to see blood on your stomach, where the pain is. Is that...your blood? Were you...shot? No. That can't be real. You cry out and you writhe in agony, tears on your face as you hear more gunfire around you and a man with the head of a wolf near you. And just like that the man holding you reaches down into your gut for the bullet and that's all you can handle.
Everything goes dark.
And then everything lights up again. Everything is agony. It's like your entire body is breaking and destroying itself even as you see the world clearer than you ever have, smell it better than you ever have. Then your cry turns into a howl that sounds like a wolf until you're collapsed, panting from it all......
The scene fades and Lyall is back in the shop with Biffy tilting his head a bit.]
No. I have a feeling that wasn't the right choice after all...