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[ the video's not all that well focused or held, mostly getting her shoulder and part of her face except for the moments she readjusts it back to focusing on her face temporarily. the light is dim, wherever she is, and between the blood drying on her and the way her voice keeps hitching as she stumbles over words, the unsteadiness of her hands holding the tablet, and the way her head tips back against the wall she's leaning against every so often as if she can't quite hold it up - she's not in great shape. ]

You know, someone should get to work on this machine's timing. Adjust it a little bit. Make it stop being a fucking piece of shit. Or taking people who don't want to be taken. Or - I don't know, what else is it up to lately? How long's it been.

[ breaking off. she's forgotten what she needed to say, is looking off at nothing in particular for a long moment. abruptly - ]

What's that story about the lady and the tiger? With the princess whose lover has to pick one of two doors as punishment, and one has a tiger and the other has a woman he'll have to marry. And she makes a gesture to tell him which one to pick, but the story doesn't tell you which one the door had behind it.

I guess a little closure's too much to ask for.

[ blood loss: good for clarity. ]

I could use a doctor.

[ ooc: charlie cutter & tempest get providing aid rights, but if you would rather action it up she'll be wandering around the area for part of the day and can be run into most anywhere just checking everything out. ]

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[ it takes her a little bit to get back to this, and when she does she looks marginally better. ]

Tempest healed me, Dick, I'm fine. I'm all good.

You don't sound okay. [ Too late, Max. ]

You’re lucky I’m a detective. I’ve got you narrowed down to three possible locales already.

[ god why ]

Dick, I'm fine. [ she's trying for stern here. ] If you need to come investigate to see just how fine I am, be my guest, but seriously. All better.

Down to fifty-fifty. [ If her tone registers at all he's ignoring the implication. ]

Just don't go anywhere, okay? I'll be there in five. [ He seriously really will. ]

[ she sighs, just nods and then remembers he can't see it. ]

Yeah. Okay. I'l wait right here.

[ As luck would have it, the fifty-fifty shot pans out in his favor. There's no more clues to glean out of the footage or her voice, just intuition and nothing else to go on. A friend needs him. Max needs him, whether she'll admit it or not.

He knows it shouldn't be this way, his heart in his throat and a thousand images flashing in his head, but it's so easy now; so simple to watch lives bleed away. To watch friends disappear, to really know how easy it is to lose everything. And something happened here. Something hurt Max bad.

He spots her and skids just a little over the ice on his way down from the roof. It's a hasty, almost sloppy jump. ] Max?

[ The fear is still heavy is his chest, turning his voice shrill and young. ] Max!

Edited (wow it's bedtime) 2014-02-11 05:10 (UTC)

[ She turns when she hears his voice, glances over her shoulder from where she's resting one shoulder against a wall. Taking a break, for a minute. The healing, the everything - she's drained, and she looks it, even if there's color in her face again and she doesn't look on the verge of passing out anymore. ]

Hey kid. [ Calm, as soothing as she can be. She reaches out her mind for a moment, just a brush of reassurance to try to soothe some of the fear she can hear in his voice. ] See? Told you. All healed.

[ Seeing her in person eases up the worst of his anxiety; she's up and walking for sure which somehow is a lot better than he'd been expecting from the way the video looked. ] Are you really sure?

[ But Batman can fake it. If Batman can fake it then who knows what someone like Max can do?

He glances up and down, darting from one side of her to the other as if that will reveal the cracks in the illusion. If what he's seeing isn't real. ] Nothing broken on the inside?

[ well at the time she took the video up and walking would definitely have been too much to expect from her. she shrugs a little, glances down at herself. ] Hard to miss someone using magic to put you back together. I'm pretty sure.

[ the magic thing, that was kind of weird. but really appreciated, too. (she could have died. she will die. what does the tense of it really matter?) ] Tempest was pretty thorough. Think she would have caught that.

Maybe not. [ Though in reality he knows it's not Tempest he thinks might be lying.

He lets a nervous breath out in a rush; worry and tension all mixed up and sitting heavily. ]

Okay, so what happened? You know how bad it looked from the network?

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