[Joy goes as rigid and still as a corpse. She doesn't even blink, staring at the aberrant thing addressing her.]
All right?
[Terribly quiet, followed by terribly shrill, a two part note.]
All right??
[She quivers with indignation, her mouth screwed up in an ugly rolled crumple, and there is a great violence bubbling in her stormy reddish brown eyes, her breath coming in shuddering, wet sniffles. It never comes. Instead, with a shrill little cry, she folds over her knees and buries her face in her hands to sob, hatefully.]
cw: blood, gore
All right?
[Terribly quiet, followed by terribly shrill, a two part note.]
All right??
[She quivers with indignation, her mouth screwed up in an ugly rolled crumple, and there is a great violence bubbling in her stormy reddish brown eyes, her breath coming in shuddering, wet sniffles. It never comes. Instead, with a shrill little cry, she folds over her knees and buries her face in her hands to sob, hatefully.]