[It's so sudden and then bowing, gasping, falling to her knees in sheer shock like being clobbered on the back of the head. Suddenly she's in a horrible burning, rushing urgent pain her limbs on fire everything hurts and it takes almost a minute for the raw numbing shock waves to thin out enough for her to take a reflexive, sucking breath.
Why, she thinks, why? She never needs to breathe. She never hurts, either, but she is now, and still on her hands and knees not even looking up to see, but she can hear the sounds of human struggling and coughing nearby.]
[Offline] and then for the first however-many-we-feel-like minutes of it.
Why, she thinks, why? She never needs to breathe. She never hurts, either, but she is now, and still on her hands and knees not even looking up to see, but she can hear the sounds of human struggling and coughing nearby.]