it feels like we're ready to crack, these days, you and I
Ronin, his face pale beneath the stain of blood from the well, doesn't respond to either of the slaps, though later he'll undoubtedly wonder why his cheek feels sore on top of the rest of this horrible night. Isla, at least, is swift and eerily calm as her flashlight lands on the two of them, her shoes splashing in the water as she quickly crosses the basement. "I need light," she says curtly, handing Remi her flashlight and gesturing for the rest of the crew to stand ready with the others.
"And someone call 911," she adds, as if it's not obvious. She doesn't ask what happened. She doesn't ask Remi to explain the blood, the well, the drowning. That can come later, after Ronin is breathing again, and without further ado, Isla begins CPR.
There's never a better time to have a paramedic-in-training, clearly, and even before the crew have been able to give the address to the operator, Ronin is spluttering and retching up a rather unpleasant quantity of the water and blood. Levering himself onto his side, it's only with his first clean breath that he lets out a disoriented moan, muscles trembling with the effort not to sag back onto the soaked ground.
"Fuck," he rasps, which only causes another coughing fit. "Wh-- at ha--ppen'd?"
"And someone call 911," she adds, as if it's not obvious. She doesn't ask what happened. She doesn't ask Remi to explain the blood, the well, the drowning. That can come later, after Ronin is breathing again, and without further ado, Isla begins CPR.
There's never a better time to have a paramedic-in-training, clearly, and even before the crew have been able to give the address to the operator, Ronin is spluttering and retching up a rather unpleasant quantity of the water and blood. Levering himself onto his side, it's only with his first clean breath that he lets out a disoriented moan, muscles trembling with the effort not to sag back onto the soaked ground.
"Fuck," he rasps, which only causes another coughing fit. "Wh-- at ha--ppen'd?"
when it's just the two of us, only the two of us, I could die
