It worked? It worked! It actually, miraculously fucking worked! Not that Cater is celebrating, exactly, so much as he's just relieved. Riddle's in there, really in there, hearing him, and he's going to be okay. They're all going to be okay. Just a little bit more. His heart breaks to see that crack in the anger. The powerlessness, the fear...
And then it all comes crashing down, literally. Instinctively, Cater reaches out and pulls Riddle close as they fall, knowing he doesn't have his pen and can't break their fall--and caught by Jade Leech of all people! Great Seven. Of all the rescuers, why Octavinelle?!
"You were, actually! I totally had that covered," Cater protests. "Augh, whatever. Put me down, would ya?"
Trey, looking exhausted as he is, appears to take Riddle from where he's squished in Cater's arms in Jade's arms, and once that transfer is complete the ginger is free (after a bit more teasing) to be set back on his own two feet. He takes a breath.
"That was waaaay too close," he says. And then the adrenaline crash hits so cataclysmically fast that without warning the color drains from his face and everything goes dark.
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And then it all comes crashing down, literally. Instinctively, Cater reaches out and pulls Riddle close as they fall, knowing he doesn't have his pen and can't break their fall--and caught by Jade Leech of all people! Great Seven. Of all the rescuers, why Octavinelle?!
"You were, actually! I totally had that covered," Cater protests. "Augh, whatever. Put me down, would ya?"
Trey, looking exhausted as he is, appears to take Riddle from where he's squished in Cater's arms in Jade's arms, and once that transfer is complete the ginger is free (after a bit more teasing) to be set back on his own two feet. He takes a breath.
"That was waaaay too close," he says. And then the adrenaline crash hits so cataclysmically fast that without warning the color drains from his face and everything goes dark.