[ a soft exhale leaves her when eddie finds a direction to move in, a sigh of relief she didn't know was caught in her throat. it's hard to make sense of the noise in her head. too many voices, too many images that overlap, clouded further by her narrow grasp on reality. but eddie listens and figures out the most important clues to follow, so as he starts moving around the room with purpose, river follows.
but she's much slower as they walk through the rows and rows of disfigured bodies, hearing their stories too in an overwhelming tide. her fingers rub across the stone in his ring almost obsessively, trying to stay grounded in the present moment and the task at hand.
when he stops and gestures to the horrifying creature that the woman's sister has become, despair drops into the pit of her stomach and she ends up on the edge of panic again. ]
No, no no no. It has to be here! They're always together, never far from each other.
[ the way she and simon had been inseparable once upon a time. maybe that's part of why she feels so bereft on behalf of these siblings. river gets far too close to the body, just shy of touching it with her bare hands, to look around for the pendant.
not finding it there, she turns instead to frantically looking around the other bodies and then starts digging in the box of things the attendants had collected to be tested in a lab later. one of them sees her and calls out 'hey!' since they weren't asked to help with sorting their belongings - but river ignores them entirely.
the necklace isn't here either. but it has to be somewhere. they're supposed to be together. river looks around one last time, eyes wide and searching, then doesn't turn back to eddie when she just leaves the room entirely to go look somewhere else. the morgue assistant turns to him with a disapproving look, probably expecting some kind of explanation. ]
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but she's much slower as they walk through the rows and rows of disfigured bodies, hearing their stories too in an overwhelming tide. her fingers rub across the stone in his ring almost obsessively, trying to stay grounded in the present moment and the task at hand.
when he stops and gestures to the horrifying creature that the woman's sister has become, despair drops into the pit of her stomach and she ends up on the edge of panic again. ]
No, no no no. It has to be here! They're always together, never far from each other.
[ the way she and simon had been inseparable once upon a time. maybe that's part of why she feels so bereft on behalf of these siblings. river gets far too close to the body, just shy of touching it with her bare hands, to look around for the pendant.
not finding it there, she turns instead to frantically looking around the other bodies and then starts digging in the box of things the attendants had collected to be tested in a lab later. one of them sees her and calls out 'hey!' since they weren't asked to help with sorting their belongings - but river ignores them entirely.
the necklace isn't here either. but it has to be somewhere. they're supposed to be together. river looks around one last time, eyes wide and searching, then doesn't turn back to eddie when she just leaves the room entirely to go look somewhere else. the morgue assistant turns to him with a disapproving look, probably expecting some kind of explanation. ]