Puzzle 12 - Dictacted/Action for the Event Horizon

[tapshoetomove]

[After his run-in with Blues, Luke's been trying to escape from some threatening-looking shadows. No matter how far he runs, the sounds of howling are not too far behind. He's still pretty injured from being bashed in the face, and he's pretty sure the wolves can smell the blood on his face. He attempts to climb into one of the vents for safety, but one of the wolf-like shadows catches up with him and sinks it's teeth into his leg and drags him out. It's soon joined by other shadows gathered around him while he pleas for his life - the sound of his scream can be heard over the journal as the wolves tear into his stomach and starts ripping him apart.

Anyone who eventually spots him will see Luke thrashing around and shrieking in pain.

Luke will eventually respond to the journal after he thinks the wolves have left, but it won't be very coherent.]

Comments

[silentrunning]

[There's a Chell. She sees Luke. And not noticing the wolves, she barges right through, and sits down next to Luke. She needed a place to rest. Her shoulder's throbbing, she probably has some broken ribs, and who knows what else. She's a bloody mess.]

Luke?

[She can only half recognize him, can't be sure whether he's a shadow or not.]

[tapshoetomove]

[Luke's been motionless for a little while. But a little while after she calls his name, he'll start thrashing and screaming, as if fighting off an invisible enemy.]

[silentrunning]

[Chell doesn't want to hurt him. Even in her horrible state, she doesn't want to hurt him. He's a child. That's the age she was when they took her into the Facility, actually a little younger than that. But he's a child. And she's seeing HER hallucination, not his, and in her hallucination, he's being picked up by a metallic pinscer.]

Leave him alone!

[Her voice is shot. But she's yelling, or the Chell equivalent thereof, which is maybe what normal volume would sound like for anyone else.]

You can't have him!

[tapshoetomove]

Please, please help me!

[He lets out another shriek of pain as he feels something bite into his stomach, pulling and ripping out his organs.]

[silentrunning]

[She's trying. Reaching out with her good hand, she touches him, smearing blood where her fingers touch.]

I... I won't let them have you. I won't. I won't. NO. You can't have him.

[Tears start pouring down her cheeks, and though she thinks she's buried her head in the corner of a test chamber, it's actually that she's buried her face against Luke instead... even though that's a wonderful way to get hit in the face.]