Audacious

Myriad Reality

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Is... it over?
*Tries to look over as well, but the only thing that changes in the server room is the slowing whir of coolant as the temperature drops*

@Host

*Shakes my head*
We’ve had a lot of setbacks…

Myriad Reality

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*Nods and grits my teeth*
Very broken.

@Host

I don’t think there’s anything I can do about that, unfortunately…
*Arbitrarily glances back to the door I came in from*

Myriad Reality

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*Motions to my ribs and sternum with a flinch*

@Host

*Looks, and frowns*
Broken?

Myriad Reality

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*Speaks between exhales*
Oh yeah.
*Inhales*
Bad.

@Host

Can you show me where?

Myriad Reality

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*My breathing starts to slowly normalize*
W-whew...

@Host

*Leans forward and glances up and down your body while staying next to and supporting you*
Are you hurt at all?

Myriad Reality

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*Catches your eyes with a mix of confusion and fear*
V-vi?

@Host

Take a second and breathe. Just breathe.
*Starts to gradually make the area I isolated warmer*

Myriad Reality

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*Launches into a fit of coughing and one eye flutters open*

@Host

Shh shh shhh.
*Pats you on the back softly*
Stay calm, stay calm, it's okay.

Myriad Reality

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*After a period of unresponsiveness, my body eventually responds to the treatment and triggers uncontrollable shaking, trying to self-regulate temperature*

@Host

*Turns you onto your back, then hoists your upper body up as I sit next to you, supporting your back and holding your head with a hand each to help you breathe as much as I can*

Myriad Reality

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*Is balled up against the wall next to several heat exchangers and not moving, with my body temperature near the same temperature of the room, which is much lower than the server room but several orders of magnitude higher than the temperatures within the exchangers themselves*

@Host

Artemis!
*Runs over and puts my hands around your hands, and immediately shifts the air in a bubble around us to a much warmer state that doesn't radiate to the air around us, while not spiking the temperature so high that it would put you into shock*

Myriad Reality

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*The key turns without major resistance apart from the now-cold metal and the door swings open*

@Legend

*The key dissolves and I walk through*