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[right][b]Interactions[/b]: Britney [@Punished GN], Aryin / Jasper [@NoriWasHere] 
[code]Kari's House[/code][/right][hr]
Linqian’s head was spinning, the blackness of her closed eyes somehow spinning in front of her. She zoned out, brain moving at a sluggish pace, as she tried to get it under control. She could deal with the pain, which was honestly pretty minimal, much better than this. Pain could be fought through, dizziness fucking destroyed her. How was she supposed to punch shit when it kept moving? Ugh, she really needed Sully to-

Ice cold water smacked her face, sizzling off her heated skin - cooling further and further in the rain and steam. She spluttered, shaking her head as some of it went up her nose. It was enough to give her a bit of clarity, eyes cracking open with a groan.

[color=CD5C5C]”Heyyyy, Brit, since when could you water slap people?”[/color] She coughed, spitting out water that trickled into her mouth. Maybe a little bit of blood too. [color=CD5C5C]”Don't worry, I'm all good, it'll take more than that to kill me.”[/color] 

Linqian raised one hand, a half assed thumbs up. She didn't try to sit up yet, because she was pretty sure she'd just fall back down which would be fucking embarrassing.  [color=CD5C5C]”Just real fucking dizzy, Aryin's tough skin is no joke, but Vashti's skull is fucking hard... But I was too hot for that crazy bitch to kill, fuck.”[/color]

She closed her eyes again for a moment. When they opened, they were clearer, her lips curving into half of a smirk. She looked a fucking mess - glowing orange face covered in blood, nose crooked, covered in mud and rain… but she felt pretty fucking fine. Sure, Britney was waving so quickly above her that she might as well be splitting into three, but that’d be fixed in a little bit. She didn’t feel so dazed anymore.

[color=CD5C5C]”Remind me to just shoot Vashti the next time I see her... No attempted seduction... even if it totally worked...”[/color] 

She turned her head, catching sight of the fucking [i]zombies[/i] through the vines and then…

Linqian sat up suddenly, groaning and holding her head. Her vision swayed and blinked in and out. The burning house was a fuzzy outline in front of her, coming more and more into focus as she got more and more pissed off. Fuck. [i][b]Fuck[/b][/i].

[color=CD5C5C]”All my shit's in there! My clothes, my phone, my money... [b][I]my only winter jacket![/I][/b] Fuck! I can't fucking afford to replace any of that!”[/color] Linqian's hands raked through mud stained, damp molten curls. Fuck, she was going to have to wash her hair again as well... That was an hour or so of her time that'd be wasted tonight. Fuck. At least she could just sit and chat shit with Aryin for half of it in her bathroom… But that wasn’t important right now. [color=CD5C5C]”I only got this fucking hot cause I knew I could put my fucking clothes back on… [i][b]Fuck[/b][/i].”[/color] 

The rain was cooling her further, temperature ticking down from the thousands. Still hot enough to burn through zombies, and durable enough to tank a few more hits than normal - but the longer she was getting fucking soaked, the cooler she'd get till it was practically useless. 

She needed to go the opposite way - cold as fuck. But she couldn't do that without gut punching Aryin again... Would she even realise what was going on?! The heat was entirely on Linqian, so she was much more in tune with it. 

And then she'd be even more fucking naked without the orange glow and molten skin to cover her. She had no fucking clothes! Where the fuck was Greyson with his very borrowable jackets when she fucking needed him?!

As if called by her thoughts, Aryin appeared - after what must’ve been a sluggish walk over. [color=CD5C5C]”You look uglier than- Oof!”[/color]

Linqian should’ve expected the punch to the gut, but her mind was still running at a slower pace even as the world finally stopped spinning. She reached up and clasped Aryin’s hand, using it to pull herself up to a crouched position. [color=CD5C5C]”You try taking Vashti’s skull to your face, asshole.”[/color]

She pulled back her fist and slammed it into Aryin’s stomach, pulling back in the heat. A zombie creeped around through the gap in Britney’s barrier and Linqian’s other arm shot out, grabbing it and burning away its already rotten flesh. She shoved a knee in its gut to finish it off.

[quote=Jasper]”Here.”[/quote]
[color=CD5C5C]”Thanks, dude, I’ll try not to destroy it.”[/color] 

Linqian lowered her temperature back to normal and took Jasper's shirt - she was shorter, so going for the smaller one made sense. She pulled it on and quickly buttoned it up… leaving the top two undone because she wasn't uptight like that. It covered what it had to: her tits and ass. Just. Unfortunately the risk of her flashing someone was still very fucking high, because it was loose and just the fucking wind was threatened to blow it up. It barely reached the top of her thighs…

Better than nothing. 

A decaying hand pushed through a gap in the plant barrier, and Linqian’s shot up to grab it. At the same time her temperature plummeted, freezing the arm off. Linqian pulled her hand back with a grimace. The water that hadn’t already evaporated turned to ice, visibly spiralling down her bare legs like spiderwebs. Her temperature raised again slightly - still much lower than normal, but not enough so that she’d badly hurt anyone who accidentally hurt her.

She took a moment to take a look at what was going on. Zombies everywhere, Emily acting like some goofy evil bitch, Vashti and Lila fighting… the horrible massive undead creature still fucking fine. The kid taking on three alone… shit, but he could survive being shot, he’d probably be fine right? Another 8th member attacking Ken. 

Linqian wasn't very good at strategy. She was good at the fighting itself - predicting her opponents moves, getting the upper hand, where to hit so that it hurt most… the individual fight, but not the overarching battle. Point her at someone and she would win, but she couldn't plan. 

[color=#5487FF][i]You have practical intelligence, not academic,[/i][/color] is what Jinhai always said when she called herself dumb. 

She wasn't sure how much she believed that, but she knew this wasn’t a fight they could easily win. There were far too many undead - they’d be overwhelmed by numbers alone. Linqian wasn’t a quitter, but she was also realistic. Or at least, having her face near smashed in by Vashti had curbed her recklessness a bit.

[color=CD5C5C]”We should get you out of here,”[/color] Linqian said to Britney, frowning.  [color=CD5C5C]”I can get rid of the zombies easily… or just fucking freeze them, then we can go out through the woods? I don’t fucking know.”[/color]

She raised her hands in an exasperated gesture, glancing over at Jasper, then Aryin. [color=CD5C5C]”I’m not being a coward or some shit like that, just we don’t have enough people to deal with these assholes… they’re actually fucking organised. Better to get the ones they want the fuck away from it all… but I don’t know. I’m not a planner. Maybe I should just punch Aryin till she’s super charged then we can go destroy them or some shit.”[/color]

For once Linqian was stopping and thinking - but she fucking hated thinking. She'd had to do it far too often recently, without Jinhai to do it for her. Fuck, she was getting nowhere with this. Linqian looked back at Britney. She was smart, and she'd helped with the actual plans to defeat the Stygian Snake. [color=CD5C5C]”What should we do?”[/color]