a little place called trust

"Oh? What did you do to cause that?" Isla wonders of him breaking something. "I have never really injured myself as an Ascended, I don't think. I can only experience it second-hand." Not strictly true, but the part of Isla that remembers what it was like to die out there in Longnight with the monster ravaging her systems is very much locked away. And she doesn't plan to open that box up again any time soon. "Well," she says of cracking his skull open, "I had considered using brute force, or biting it open with my teeth, but in the end I settled on a more medical route." AKA OMG Johnny don't ask about the details I have no idea how neurosurgery works lmao. Explaining the tOoLs she's using and helpfully holding them into Nate's eyeline so he might have a peek, Isla falls silent, then, while she concentrates and operates. Time passes, though if one was to ask the medic how long, she'd be unable to say. Only when she has managed to part the section of Nate's skull from his brain does she finally exhale, nodding and then realising he can't see it. "I'm in." Isla the flesh is weak