[ It's oddly surreal. He knew there was a chance this would happen, but there's a sort of pride in now knowing it's random. The curse will hit him no matter what, whether in little amounts or large amounts, and it doesn't seem like anything is safe. Ifrits fire took nothing, Ifrit himself took his arm, Garuda before took just a wee bit but this Garuda is hungrily consuming him. Probably like she wanted to when they fought.
What does it mean? There's no logic to the punishment. Is it truly just random?
Joshua semi-priming makes him want to make a noise, to shake his head, desperation in his eyes and not from the inability to breathe. No! Stop that! Then the healing rushes into him and the lithification - is it true lithification? - slows. Stemmed by the Phoenix and his eyes water because he wants to beg for his brother not to.
He knows what's going to happen and the guilt is eating away at him. As it should. Tears drip hot from his eyes - he's sorry Joshua - and then there's... agony. It's worse than the petrification was before, as he feels aether yanking, shoved around. It makes him want to black out, be done with it, and his vision dims, sounds pulling away. And something else that makes a portion of him greedy, in the way eating an Eikons aether did. It's not aether but Ifrit? Ultima? the portion of his body that consumes it snacks on it anyways.
And it works. Slowly the combined onslaught forces the petrification back, enough that Clive can finally croak: ]
Joshua, stop-
[ With a voice that sounds like it was dragged through the mud and then a throat filled with gravel. But it doesn't stop there, the petrification crawling back down Clives arm, slowly but sure forcefully relinquishing the hold via Wills sledgehammering and the Phoenix healing the flesh after. Flesh and nerve screams and Clive has to try and push weakly at them both to get them to stop before they hurt themselves. ]
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Date: 2025-02-10 05:26 pm (UTC)What does it mean? There's no logic to the punishment. Is it truly just random?
Joshua semi-priming makes him want to make a noise, to shake his head, desperation in his eyes and not from the inability to breathe. No! Stop that! Then the healing rushes into him and the lithification - is it true lithification? - slows. Stemmed by the Phoenix and his eyes water because he wants to beg for his brother not to.
He knows what's going to happen and the guilt is eating away at him. As it should. Tears drip hot from his eyes - he's sorry Joshua - and then there's... agony. It's worse than the petrification was before, as he feels aether yanking, shoved around. It makes him want to black out, be done with it, and his vision dims, sounds pulling away. And something else that makes a portion of him greedy, in the way eating an Eikons aether did. It's not aether but Ifrit? Ultima? the portion of his body that consumes it snacks on it anyways.
And it works. Slowly the combined onslaught forces the petrification back, enough that Clive can finally croak: ]
Joshua, stop-
[ With a voice that sounds like it was dragged through the mud and then a throat filled with gravel. But it doesn't stop there, the petrification crawling back down Clives arm, slowly but sure forcefully relinquishing the hold via Wills sledgehammering and the Phoenix healing the flesh after. Flesh and nerve screams and Clive has to try and push weakly at them both to get them to stop before they hurt themselves. ]