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[Accidental Video]

[When the video cuts on, you can see the side of Cirno's dress but can hear her voice. Someone did not mean to turn this thing on. If one was to look closely, one could notice she is at the dorms. ]

Hey! Sanae, Where have you been? I haven't seen you....Wait...No....Sanae this isn't funny...You can't...

[There is a clunk as the PDA falls to the ground and shows Cirno's face as words fail her. It's a sad and shocked expression slowly fading into anger. She stands there a moment before lashing out at the wall, punching it a few times before taking off with a frustrated scream, leaving the device there on the ground, like she never knew she had it.]

((OOC- She's taken off. If you want to look for her, just let me know in the comments. Otherwise she's just going to hide where she has run off to for a few days.))

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Yuka was about to say something about not knowing how to use the kit, when Cirno started moving again. Looking a bit panicky, she threw her arms around the fairy and held her tight. "Cirno, please!" she cried out. Her thoughts were in a whirl; she couldn't have answered if someone asked, 'please what?'

Becca stayed quiet, hugging her knees again and starting to cry. She didn't know what to say, didn't know how to help. All she wanted was to wrap her arms around Cirno, to pet her hair and promise her it was okay. And she couldn't. She couldn't touch, couldn't give that comfort, and she felt horrible for it. She let the kit stay on the ground, sniffling heavily. "Cirno it's okay," she murmured from her place on the ground. "Please, it's okay, calm down..."

Yuka glanced over at Becca. She seemed worried about Cirno too, why didn't she come closer?

If Yuka's thoughts were clearer, she'd probably guess that Becca was a player. But they aren't.

Cirno struggled to free herself at first, trying hard to get back to what she had been doing but she slowly stopped struggling and started to cry. She just sat there, not moving for a little while before taking Yuka's sleeve in one hand gently and looking up slightly to see through her hair. Her mind still remembered that Becca was there and once she spotted her, she reached out to her as well. Her Important People were both there..and she wanted them both, even if it meant suffering a penalty for it.

Becca shook her head when Cirno reached out for her, dropping her head into her arms to cry a bit more. "I can't, Cirno," she whined, as upset by her inability to help as she was by the fact that Cirno was upset. "I'm here... I'm here," she promised, but refused to get closer.

Yuka looked back and forth between the two. Then it clicked. "You're a player, aren't you..."

This was insane. She knew the rules about touching owned weapons. She'd even risked that penalty herself in order to answer certain questions. But what purpose did it serve?

But at least there was a remedy to the current situation, even if she didn't entirely like it. She took her free arm and managed to wriggle her controller out of her pocket and put it on, although it was a fairly awkward process, and whispered to it, "discard perfect freeze".

Becca could have sobbed with gratitude the moment the discard command was issued. She rushed forward and threw her arms around Cirno and the other girl at once. "Thank you," she murmured, but quickly turned her attention to Cirno, squeezing her tightly and nuzzling into her cheek. "It's gonna be okay, Cirno, it's gonna be okay. We're here. We're not leaving."

As soon as Cirno's hand felt Becca's sleeve, she grasped it tightly, the grip on Yuka's doing the same. Somewhere in her mind she realized that she was getting blood everywhere she touched but it was very small and unimportant now. Right now she just cried, not wanting to let go in the fear of the both of them vanishing as well. For now, her anger was forgotten, leaving her somewhat limp in their arms.

Yuka gently patted Cirno on the back, but didn't say anything. Now that the initial panic had passed, another emotion was taking over - guilt.

Was some of this her fault? She'd told Cirno that she shouldn't pull away from people, and she still felt that way. But could that advice have made Cirno's hurt worse in the end?

She didn't know what to do.

Becca let Cirno cry for some time, but eventually pulled backwards slightly, trying to get a hold of the first aid kit. "C'mon, Cirno, let's get you patched up, huh? That looks painful..."

Cirno shook her head no at the end of that. She wasn't feeling the pain just yet, still running of the adrenaline that her little berserk rage had given her. There was another reason, she didn't want to let go. After a moment she tried to offer up a tiny smile and spoke softly,her voice still tried from her screaming but trying to at least sound like she was doing better after this whole thing.

"This is nothin' for the Strongest to handle."

Yuka smiled a little at that. It'd been a long time since Cirno had called herself that... not since she had really started getting acknowledgement. Still...

"Even the Strongest should take care of herself though, right?"

She thought, but didn't add something like 'and it worries us.' She was sure it was true - she didn't know this other girl, but she seemed to care about Cirno too, which was what mattered to Yuka right now. But hearing that might just make Cirno feel worse right now.

"Cirno, you're getting blood everywhere," Becca said gently, but with a careful sternness to her tone. "Let me patch you up. It's not about being strong or not, it's about taking care of yourself. Like your friend said," she offered, still trying to get at her to start tending to her hands.

That small worry now grew to a bigger worry. Now that she was in a better state of mind, this freaked her out a bit, "Oops...I'm sorry..." She slowly pulls her hands away from the both of them. She uses her wrist to rub at her eyes before putting them in her lap. She watches them for a second before looking up, "How can we do that? I don't have my ice back...That's how I always healed up before."

"I think..." Yuka stops, then looks at Becca. "I'm sorry, I don't know your name. But it sounds like you know something that will help..."

"It's Becca," she answered quietly, opening up the kit and reaching out to take one of Cirno's hands. "And yes, I do. I'm...used to doing first aid a lot."

Cirno met Becca halfway, picking her hand up out of her lap and holding it out with a slightly curious look. She was frowning a bit but didn't say a word at least about why she was frowning. "Oh yeah..You guys have never met. Becca, this is Yuka. Yuka, this is Becca." She gestures between the two with her other hand, careful not to fling any blood around before returning it to her lap.

The frown changes to a small smile as she closes her eyes and slumps a little bit more. Everything was just catching up to her and she was starting to feel the pain in her hands and the fact she was worn out completely, in mental, emotional and physical. She wasn't falling asleep or anything yet. She didn't want to go back, She wanted to stay with Yuka and Becca here for a while, but she would not voice that.

Yuka smiled at Becca, hoping that the expression would convey something she didn't know how to say. Normally she'd say something like 'Pleased to meet you'... but meeting like this wasn't pleasing at all. But she was glad that Becca was here. That there was someone like Becca at all.

She shifted a bit, moving her arm so she could give Cirno a little more support without getting in Becca's way.

"This is gonna hurt," she warned gently. "A lot. But you're the strongest, remember?" she said gently, trying to get Cirno to smile. She held Cirno's hand out over the dirt, nothing beneath it as she held up a small bottle. "It's okay to cry if you need to, but this is important," she insisted, then carefully poured a bit of hydrogen peroxide over the damage to her hand. Once it had all run over and onto the ground, she set the bottle aside and got to work wrapping her scrapes with gauze.

The small smile grew a bit wider at Becca's comment. It was bringing a idea to her, to show this place why she called herself that. That train of thought quickly de-railed as the peroxide hit her hand. Her eyes shot open and. She tried hard not to pull away at the pain it caused.

"Ow...What is that stuff?"

Cirno looked back to Yuka and at least tried to smile like she usually would, although it was off it's mark by quite a bit.

Yuka watched Becca curiously. She'd sort of heard of first aid... but injuries weren't something that they had to deal with very often back home. If they needed actual assistance for anything, it was usually either for disease or something really unusual.

"What does that do?" she asked.

"It's hydrogen peroxide, and it'll keep you from getting an infection," she answered seriously. "Come on, other hand next," she said, finishing up bandaging the one and reaching for the other. "It hurts now so that it doesn't hurt a lot for a lot longer."

"Oh..I guess if it works." Cirno offered up her other hand without another word on the liquid. She's quiet for a moment before blurting out without thinking, "They want us to figure this all out...Why do they keep doing this? If they would stop torturing us and just help it'd be better! Maybe we'd figure it out better!" Her voice was still horse and tired but the meaning was there, Frustration lined with anger and hurt. If she could scream or yell, Cirno would have done so without a second thought.

After a moment, She realizes she just said that out loud and ducks her head down. She really didn't want to say that out loud. She is shaking again and her face was a blush. This was embarrassing, since she wanted to keep that quiet and to herself.

Edited 2012-08-31 05:22 (UTC)

It may have just been a random outburst, but Yuka was considering it seriously. She thought back to conversations she'd had since coming her, to her encounters with the staff... and came to a conclusion. She probably couldn't explain her reasoning to anyone... but it felt right, and Yuka tended to trust her instincts in these matters.

"Maybe they can't. Maybe something worse would happen if they helped too much."

Becca nodded in agreement. "I think the staff's being as manipulated as we are," she offered quietly, working to wrap Cirno's hand quickly. She'd have to restock her first aid kit after this, but after what she'd done with Alex earlier, she wasn't exactly hurting for money.

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