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Her ankle throbs in time with her core’s thrumming, with the latter having been thrown into overdrive in an attempt to keep her vitals…well, not ‘healthy’ but, you know, steady. Hard to be healthy when you’re half dead.
Hard to do much of anything when you’re half dead.
Her heart sluggishly pounds away in her ears as she focuses on her breathing, however slow it is. Slow. Steady. Cold. She’s always so cold.
A thin layer of frost creeps across the ground while Danny struggles to catch her breath. Her side is still tender and thinking about the situation that led to said tenderness makes her already sensitive stomach churn uncomfortably. Whatever injury the laser had left behind is long gone, only the sensation of freshly regrown flesh leaving behind any indication that it was there to begin with.
On trembling ankles, Danny forces herself to her feet. She can’t stay here, out in the open in the middle of…wherever she is. But the location isn’t what’s important.
What’s important is that she’s finally safe. Or, rather, safe from the GIW, she can’t say anything about everything and everyone else that wants her dead.
But right now, that’s enough.
The portal Wulf and Clockwork had shoved her through had been a strange one—the normally shining, vibrant green having been muddled and corrupted with deep, pulsating fusion of black and purple. It had been as mesmerizing as it had been terrifying.
And it had been one of the most mesmerizing things she had ever seen in her life.
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Kyoka learned early that having enhanced hearing is both a blessing and a curse. And ever since her Quirk had properly manifested—not just her jacks that she was born with—it’s something she’s learned to deal with and use to her advantage, as aggravating as it can be at times.
Her heartbeat is an integral part of her Quirk and she knows hers, well, by heart. And overtime she’s learned to hone in on others’ beats as well. Kyoka has heard them all over the years, and even helped get some people the diagnosis they desperately needed when it came to issues of the heart.
But until today, she’d never heard a heart that thrummed and hummed like an old piece of technology.