![]() to help Rouge and they've been hanging out in their downtime. Rouge was grateful for Shadow being there for her when she was upset about her dad not coming to see her for her birthday and about him risking his life for the Time Wish to help make her birthday worthwhile. It was thanks to these factors which made Rouge develop feelings for Shadow and after an awkward confession, they started going out.Maria: Rouge enjoys Maria’s company and was surprised yet happy to see her at her apartment one day.She also suggests that Maria is restricted to what she sees on Google, likely taking on a protective big sister role for her. Space zombies had to be one of the worse weapons ever devised. Combat drugs were normally designed with serious safety protocols in place to give someone a boost for a few minutes, perhaps an hour, without long terms negative effects. It was truly amazing and terrifying what those drugs were capable of when the user's long term wellbeing was no longer a concern, I thought with clinical detachment as I watched that thing that had been Corporal Taylor reach its arm stump through the shattered fragments of the door. He had taken his own lower arm off with a vibo-blade in his final moments as Corporal Taylor in some desperate last attempt to stop the spread of the infection from where his hand had been bitten. I could clearly see its radius and the ulna, the two bones of the forearm sticking out of the stump as it howled in rage, unable to reach me for the time being. The wrist and its bones were missing from the left hand. No scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, pisiform, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, or hamate. I let out a breath I didn't know I was holding. ![]() I realized my subconscious mind was trying to force me to think about my medical training, force me to think about anything other than the things on the other side of that door, force the terror out before it got me killed. Hold it for a few seconds, slooooowly breath out my nose. 'Be calm or be dead', those words echoing into my head, the first and last days advise spoken by the orientation instructors back in the day. I stood on the opposite side of the door observing them. ![]() I had been bathing when the outbreak first started. I had lost the towel I was using earlier on and had never been able to make it back to my quarters.
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