The Savior spasmed and jerked head to malformed toe, the clawed fingers ever-so-slowly dragging themselves on a terrible course downwards and shredding gashes where they went. The jagged tears bubbled and seeped, leaking streams of ichor that ran down the ridged scutes on her arms to her elbows, where they dribbled into viscous seething puddles on the floor. 

The communications were working without a hitch. They could hear Quinn perfectly, no malfunction of any kind was stopping that. But all they heard from her—in the terrible crystalline clarity that came with the neural link—were torn, strangled gasps, and unsteady aborted half-breaths that sounded like someone choking.

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