[If this world were normal, a splash would've been nothing. Who could hear it in such weather? But this wasn't the Earth they knew. This was a silent world, one hungry for any morsel of sound.
And Mitsuha has signaled the beginning of a feast.
It happens faster than Lu Li's sensors can process. They're running one moment, and the next--
DANGER DANGER DANGER
--Mitsuha is being torn apart. She's holding onto Lu Li but they're digging into her flesh and she hates how her systems are already pointing out the sinews that were being torn beneath the welling blood, how it's warning her that internal bleeding was imminent and that irreversible trauma was occurring the best course of action would be to shoot.
But Lu Li has no weapon. All she has is an axe that she can't even use this close because all her focus is on holding onto Mitsuha desperately, as if that'd keep her from slipping into the grasp of the Sound Eaters--]
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And Mitsuha has signaled the beginning of a feast.
It happens faster than Lu Li's sensors can process. They're running one moment, and the next--
DANGER DANGER DANGER
--Mitsuha is being torn apart. She's holding onto Lu Li but they're digging into her flesh and she hates how her systems are already pointing out the sinews that were being torn beneath the welling blood, how it's warning her that internal bleeding was imminent and that irreversible trauma was occurring the best course of action would be to shoot.
But Lu Li has no weapon. All she has is an axe that she can't even use this close because all her focus is on holding onto Mitsuha desperately, as if that'd keep her from slipping into the grasp of the Sound Eaters--]