Another sickening shock snaps its way from right wrist to shoulder in a painful fractal discharge, arching his back, but he continues to cling to the fizzling, spitting, dying arm and Greta's fingers wrap around his wrist, his feet digging into the indefinable surface as they haul one collapsing mechanism out from the grasp of another.
They spill onto the ground in a panting disarray, Asadi's hand gripping his, the other a disordered mess of fraying circuitry.
It is tied directly to her nervous system. It is tied to her brain.
He does not need to run a potential risk analysis to know the potential risks.
He is in no way concerned.
The fading tone from the Rift's violent retaliation drills into his ears, distant and unbroken.
In a swift, methodical movement, Rush frees his hand from Greta's and leans over the sputtering prosthetic with its shuddering internal components.
"All right there, lass," he murmurs, a distracted, unrealized litany as he scans the arm for any immediate methods of defusing it to prevent any potential damage. That was altogether too optimistic a notion, clearly, but his hands move deftly up and down in search of a means of access to its interior.
no subject
They spill onto the ground in a panting disarray, Asadi's hand gripping his, the other a disordered mess of fraying circuitry.
It is tied directly to her nervous system. It is tied to her brain.
He does not need to run a potential risk analysis to know the potential risks.
He is in no way concerned.
The fading tone from the Rift's violent retaliation drills into his ears, distant and unbroken.
In a swift, methodical movement, Rush frees his hand from Greta's and leans over the sputtering prosthetic with its shuddering internal components.
"All right there, lass," he murmurs, a distracted, unrealized litany as he scans the arm for any immediate methods of defusing it to prevent any potential damage. That was altogether too optimistic a notion, clearly, but his hands move deftly up and down in search of a means of access to its interior.