006 || Video//Action

[sangreine]

Okay... this is strange.

[Saya glances over her shoulder, then focuses on her device with fair alarm.] First the waitress this morning told me I must have a hollow leg whatever that means, and then when I tried to stand up my leg was all weird. [She reaches down and thumps on it, and it produces a lovely echo.]

Then someone asked if I felt under the weather and... [She pans the device up to a very dark raincloud that appears to be localized only in the few square feet above her head.]

What kind of a curse is this?

((OOC: why, a Simon Says curse, of course! Saya must follow all "orders" today, with everything being taken literally. Be horrible to her please!))

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[sangreine]

[Saya hasn't time to consider what she thinks of that view, nor even for the words to register. There's only so much her mind can take at once, and this eclipses everything else in one messy second.]

[Like a puppet with strings severed, she crumples.]

action;

[worldofourown]

[ Karl's glee deflates the moment she collapses. Like a cheated child, he grits his teeth and glowers at Saya's motionless form, half-waiting for her to revive. ]

[ No response. ]

[ Grumbling to himself, he approaches her sidelong. Stoops to gather her up, not particularly tender, but with a clear touch of possessiveness. She always always does this. Give him a glimpse -- maddening, tantalizing --of her true self. Then retract it like something's hit a secret Reset button in her, reverted her back to a dithering weakling. ]

[ Soon. It's a mantra of sweet promise as he sweeps her off the streets. Soon. ]