[ It's late at night, the clock somewhere past midnight and the pizza boxes piled haphazardly on the table empty. Someone nearby laughs a little, and Roslyn stirs and opens her eyes, stretches sleepily and yawns. ]
I didn't mean to fall asleep, you should have woken me up.
[ Vaguely, somewhere deeper down, she realizes that this is a dream. Piri and Madison and Carl and Jin - they're all dead or gone or won't look at her in the hallways of headquarters - only she's not even in headquarters anymore, she lives in Exsilium these days, where there's none of them at all. So this has to be a dream, but there's still the echoing laughter of Madison with her head tipped back and that's enough for her.
Or one moment there is, and Roslyn is smiling sleepily and reaching for a folder, and the next moment Carl makes a low lunge for her, slamming her off her chair to the floor. She can feel where the bruises will form soon, the breath going out of her, and she stares up at him in bewilderment. ]
Carl? What's going --
[ She scrambles up off the floor and stares at her old team, bewildered and for the first time in a long time afraid as they line up uniformly, no familiarity in their faces. Just aggression. She's never had this nightmare before, and she doesn't want to start now. ]
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I didn't mean to fall asleep, you should have woken me up.
[ Vaguely, somewhere deeper down, she realizes that this is a dream. Piri and Madison and Carl and Jin - they're all dead or gone or won't look at her in the hallways of headquarters - only she's not even in headquarters anymore, she lives in Exsilium these days, where there's none of them at all. So this has to be a dream, but there's still the echoing laughter of Madison with her head tipped back and that's enough for her.
Or one moment there is, and Roslyn is smiling sleepily and reaching for a folder, and the next moment Carl makes a low lunge for her, slamming her off her chair to the floor. She can feel where the bruises will form soon, the breath going out of her, and she stares up at him in bewilderment. ]
Carl? What's going --
[ She scrambles up off the floor and stares at her old team, bewildered and for the first time in a long time afraid as they line up uniformly, no familiarity in their faces. Just aggression. She's never had this nightmare before, and she doesn't want to start now. ]