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[Henry's voice may be recognisable from the Guard's announcement a few days ago. Yet on this occasion, unlike then, he speaks quickly and sharply with a forceful urgency. There's no time for him to lock this to the Guard.]

Pay heed! Hope's temple may soon come under assault by a monster far more terrible than its kin. Through savage harm it plans to lure out Hope. If you be within, do not leave the temple's protection unless you are prepared for death.

[The reason for his warning quickly makes itself known, faster than Henry would have liked. This voice, too, might be recognised by some.]

I will do far worse than kill.

[Every attempt at emotion is still off kilter, still too dampened by clarity and ice to sound right. It sounds like Kate but all the same it is not, not even a little. It lilts in all the right ways but it sounds like it hasn't ever felt emotion before this.

Which makes sense, because it was only brought into the world a few short hours ago.]

Preparing for death isn't very useful when I don't want you dead, Not yet. Not until your skin is peeling from the burns and every bone in your body is snapped in two. Or more. It doesn't matter that much.

[That is where he switches off his phone, so that it cannot prove a distraction in the fight ahead. Consider yourselves warned about the Torturedemon, Hadriel. There will be no replies from Henry, but feel free to talk among yourselves.]

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Shit. [ now that's the real kate, voice obviously tempered by exhaustion and the terror that sends her heart free falling into her stomach like a stone.

nononono this cannot be happening. ]

Edited 2016-06-21 04:12 (UTC)

[What the fuck, are there TWO Kates now???]

Please tell me you're not going Rage-dream on us???

[ It takes a while for anything to come through from this version of Kate's voice, because she's still trying to sort all of the facts out. She knows, somehow, what that thing is. She doesn't know what it looks like, but she can feel it in her bones, has a gut-clenching awareness of its existence and movement.

That it has her voice is fucking terrifying and she can't even find the energy to hide her fear when she answers. ]

That's-- That is definitely not me.

[She sounds sincere, but Emily remembers that dream too vividly, the--

No. Stop it. That's not helping any.

Breathe.]

It sure as fuck sounds like you!

[And now, Emily makes the transition from afraid into angry, her voice hard when she speaks next.]

Why does it sound like you, Kate?

[ So many reasons. All of them ones she cannot bring herself to say. Saying why is saying 'shit, we fucked up' and she knows they have, knows because there is no fucking evidence of the Door being anywhere in sight and this fucking post even exists in the first place. But even so, admitting how badly this went wrong just will not come out right now,

not while there is some very, very small part of her that still kind of thinks there may be some way to salvage this. If only this monster - if only her monster can somehow manage the thing she knows it's aiming for... maybe. ]

Guess I have a fucking monster now, don't I? [ Her voice is a growl, an unstable mix of emotions that she shouldn't be directing at Emily, not really. Not if she thinks about it - the only person who should be having that mix directed at them is her. She could have gotten through this all with a lot less bother if only she hadn't jumped on the first half-chance of getting out of here without thinking and without resting for the entire mess of it all. She may have never had a monster, or if she did, maybe it would have been a whole lot less fucking nauseating than hearing her own voice promising torture across the network.

But she's so fucking tired of being underground. So fucking tired of being reminded of her late teens and early twenties at every turn because this fucking place has to look like some upgraded version of the tunnels she spent years fighting in. She's so tired of trying to live some semblance of the life she wants down in a place that seems designed to bring her back to those days.

She just wants to get above ground. Right now she doesn't even care if it's LA, Manchester, or the fucking moon. ]

[Is. Is that all you have to say for yourself.]

NO SHIT, GENIUS.

How are you gonna stop it?

[Your monster, your responsibility.]

[ Are you kidding her, Em? The messages from Kate are taking half an hour at least to come through each time because she's just too tired, as if the fact that she's not even trying to keep her voice its usual level of unfazed isn't enough of an indication. ]

I don't fucking- [ She physically can't manage to move more than a few feet without her limbs shaking too badly to move any further. Trying to stop that thing would be impossible. She doesn't even know where she'd begin if she hadn't burned herself out on working on everything possible this week.

Her voice lowers to a hiss, one that's all exhaustion and reluctant admission; ] I am too fucking exhausted to move. What do you think I could do?

[Any respect Emily had for Kate falls away just then, whether for the moment or for longer, she doesn't know. But nobody talks to Emily like that, nobody gives her that kind of attitude, not when for once, she's not the one who did something wrong here.

And Kate clearly did something wrong.]

Are you fucking kidding me? This is your monster. Do not talk to me like I should be the one fixing your shit for you. How the fuck did this even happen? What the fuck is going on here? First Sharon pulls some fucking magic trick out of her ass and makes this shithole even scarier than it is on a bad day, and now what, you decided it wasn't bad enough?

[Her pause now is brief, but full of indignation, almost palpable through the audio feed.]

Stay the fuck away from me and my friends, Kate. Leave us alone.

[Before Kate can get a word in, Emily shuts off the feed. She hasn't given Kate reason to be angry at them (except maybe now), but somehow she gets the feeling she and her friends won't be seeing Kate or her monster anytime soon. And if they do? Well, Chris said something about a flamethrower.]

There's not much time. [Maketh's voice is oddly flat.] Is it going to attack the civilians, or just us?

[ she can barely keep her eyes open for more than a few minutes at a time but this fucking plan has gone to hell in a fucking handbasket and Kate still hasn't shaken the disbelief or horror that set in when she heard the initial broadcast, so Maketh's question does nothing but set off a flurry of other possbilities that has her steadying herself against a wall rather than immediately answering.

Come on, Galloway. Think.

she may not have intended for this thing to exist, but she knows it. can feel it as deep as she can feel all the things that have been building inside of her since day one, culminating in an explosion of reckless behaviour and lack of thought.

she's always been kind of impulsive, not prone to hesitation because hesitation gets you or someone else fucking killed, but this is- this was beyond impulsive. ]

I-

It wants the gods. [ she can feel that in her bones, it hurts like a bruise, because she wants that too. she wants them dead and everyone free. ] .... That's all I know.

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[It went after Henry. He had the mark. The blessing. Maketh exhales slowly.] I have Hope's blessing on my hand.

[She won't let it go through anyone else trying to kill her.]

You are going to put Nick Valentine in charge. Do you understand me?

...Shit. [ fuck, panic hasn't clutched at her chest like this since she woke up after shooting Marc in her dreams last month. but then it was just a dream, and she was perfectly healthy; perfectly capable of doing something. she doesn't want that thing out any more than anyone else, probably more, knowing what - who - it is and what that means for her, for everyone in this place.

to her, this is all some perfectly fucking timed message reminding her that it's just one more wrong fucking step before she is that thing. before everything it says is words from her own lips rather than its. oh fuck- ]

W-whatever needs to be done. [ there's bile rising in her throat and the exhaustion makes it so much fucking harder to keep herself logical and unfazed. so maybe her answers don't make sense. she doesn't know. she just wants it gone.

but who could possibly remain unfazed if this thing came from them? ]

Good.

[There's absolutely nothing in Maketh's voice now. She's already made her decision.]

You are going to protect these people now. That's all.

ARE YOU OKAY?!!?!? What's going on with you!?

not me. def ont me.

monstr. [ because what is typing correctly right now. ]

Not as bad as I expected. Not great. But not as bad.

Where are you?

safe. [ read: she is not saying. nope. actually, bianca dragged her out while she was unconscious and she doesn't know where this safe space is, ]

Are you hurt?

[ considering considering... ]

not from it. [ older injuries, yes. exhaustion, yes. but she hasn't had occasion to meet that thing, thank fuck. ]

Good.

Please keep it that way.

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