just this once, everybody lives!

[sageprincess]

Characters: Everyone.
Setting: Anywhere.
Format: Party style.
Summary: Post-Ex Machina catch-all mingle.
Warnings: See individual threads.

[After a long, drawn out battle, the infiltration team returns to the residential portion of the Tower, weary, battered... but victorious. Some catching up is in order.]

Comments

[cullscuttlefish]

Things were kind of a blur all around at that point.

[She hardly remembers leaving; she knows she got downstairs and bandaged herself up, but the details are fuzzy.]

Are you okay?

[neverbeamemory]

[Thinking about it, and gazing almost like day-dreaming at Feferi's bandages brings a memory up - purple. Had that been an illusion too?

Why is he even thinking about asking? Sephiroth drops his hand from the back of his neck and shakes his head slowly.]

I'm still tired. No surprises.

[Didn't he have a slice to his cheek before? It's gone now, unless someone were to look real close to his face, that is. Finally his regeneration seems to be picking up again.]

You?

[cullscuttlefish]

[Feferi blinks a little. She'd thought there had been a cut on his face.]

None whatsoever. I'm still wiped, but at least I'm not hurt too badly. It looks worse than it is. It's gonna be a little bit before I'm at 100 percent again.

[She pokes a little at one of the bandages on her arm.]

But what is it they say? Any one you can swim away from is okay?

[neverbeamemory]

[For all the thought he's giving it might never have happened. Just where was the line between hallucination and reality anyway? Dreams, even intense ones that bled over, fade into obscurity from the moment a person wakes up.]

It could have been a lot worse.

[Accompanies a light nod. They all could have died.

He frowns a little at the expression though, not being one to have heard it before. Though the concept is easy enough for him to get his still-much-too-tired logic around. Sephiroth imagines he'll be nursing an over-worked brain for a few days yet, all the theorizing and researching he'd been doing whilst drained.]

Something like that. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, et cetera.