SHI QING XUAN

[aubins]

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[aubins]

yeah i'm fine. what's up?

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[shiftingwinds]

[ read at (whatever time this is)pm ✔️✔️ ]

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[shiftingwinds]

[and then like five minutes later: ]

i think i might need some help

[aubins]

[ just immediately: ]

where are you?

[shiftingwinds]

simulation room

im not badly hurt. just very tired and sore

[aubins]

... what did you do, shi?

[ he's running. ]

[shiftingwinds]

ill explain when you get here

[and when he gets there, he'll find the simulation room in its default state. shi qingxuan is sitting down, resting against one wall with her hand to her head. she looks up when she hears him enter.]

Hey.

[when she pulls her hand away from her head, her fingertips are a little bloody.]

[aubins]

[ geez. well. okay he's here, and he's going to crouch down next to her. ]

C'mon. Med bay.

I don't think you need the pod, but you should get those looked at. [ i mean they killed the doctor but he's helped clean up wounds before by now. ]

[shiftingwinds]

It's just a little blood.

[on closer inspection, it's not her fingers that are bleeding! they're just bloody from touching her head, which is bleeding slightly.]

...honestly, I just want to clean up a little and rest. I'd go myself, but... [she feels really drained right now and doesn't want to freak people out by being too obviously out of it if she runs into them along the way.] I can walk, but - can I borrow your arm? Just in case.

[aubins]

...

[ hm. god. ]

I'm not leaving you alone with a head wound, Shi.

[ he'll... offer her a hand up and let her lean on him when she's upright. ]

... Any objections to staying in Room 9? I can keep an eye on you, and make a trip to the medbay to grab some supplies to clean that up.

[shiftingwinds]

I don't have a problem with that.

[anyway, she'll take his hand and get up - wincing a little at the motion, because she's sore. eugh.]

...you know how we're supposed to be able to make... anything we dream of here become a reality? [according to the voice mentioned in the locations page] ...I thought, maybe if I thought about what we found last time, I could make it show me some answers.

[aubins]

...

[ well. they'll set off at a steady and gentle pace, so she doesn't injure herself further somehow. ]

... You -- [ wait ] Shi, you did what?

[ aaaHHHHHHHHHH. ]

[shiftingwinds]

...it seemed like a good idea at the time.

[haha!]

[aubins]

Apparently, it wasn't. Is the headwound from trying to get the room to do that?

[shiftingwinds]

...I did get the room to change. I'm... not sure what to make of what I saw, though.

[...]

There were... lights flashing, and some kind of... monitors? The room was small. [she honestly isn't sure how to describe what she saw.] A lot of it was sort of blurry...

And then I... heard something, but I couldn't see what it was. It sounded like claws on the ground...? And... like purrs. I think maybe whatever it was, it was behind me. There was a pinch on the back of my neck, and it felt like it was burning.

And then...

[she hesitates]

[aubins]

[ they'll keep up a steady pace through all of this. ]

And then...?

[shiftingwinds]

[imagine if someone walked by while she was just doxxing this]

...I started to change, too. My nails became claws, and... it looked like pupils were opening up on my hands...? Something came out of my back, and my head started aching and bleeding, so much that I couldn't see, because it got into my eyes. [the pain might not have been real, but she can still remember it - yikes.] ...and it - felt like I was growing a tail...?

Then the lights went out, and I heard that purring sound again. When they came back on, my head was bleeding a little, and I just... I felt so tired and sore.

[she brings a hand up to rub at the back of her neck, and then pauses]

...I think the burn is still here.

[aubins]

[ ... what the fuck do you say to something like that. ]

Did it feel... more real than the simulation room usually does? Or ... is there even any way to tell them apart? Reality and the fake room.

[ hang on he's going to lean around to take a look to see if the burn IS there. ]

[shiftingwinds]

...it felt real while it was happening. I don't know how I'd be able to tell them apart.

[she brushes her hair out of the way so he can look and -

yeah, there sure is a burn on the back of her neck.]

[aubins]

... I wonder if you really saw something important. And whatever it was that happened after was some sort of security system.

Like being caught by guards.

[ .... oof. yeah, okay. he's going to open the door to his room as soon as they're close enough, and help her up the stairs to the loft area. ]

Stay put, I'll be back in a moment with something for that burn and that wound.

[shiftingwinds]

I don't know... we can ask the Avatars about it, maybe.

[when she's not exhausted?



anyway, for now, she's just going to stay put in the loft area, trying not to bleed on anything. (it's only slight bleeding, anyway, so it's fine.)]

...thanks, Yuri.

[aubins]

Don't worry about, Shi.

[ he's nyooooooooming. as fast as he can.

when he's back with the items in question, he'll set them down on the bed, but his attention is going to that burn mark first and foremost. ]

It's really just these injuries, you're not keeping anything else quiet?

[shiftingwinds]

[oh



something occurs to her, and she glances down at one of her hands.]

...well, it doesn't have to do with that room, but.

[aubins]

[ he just doing the visual equivalent of

?

right now ]

[shiftingwinds]

[she holds up her hand, where there is now an envy tattoo instead of a gluttony one]