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Noise

It starts as just irritation. A metaphorical crawling under your skin. Things are too noisy, too bright, there is too much happening all the time and you can't take it all in-

Then silence it, make it yours, make it you, take control and destroy what will not submit

It sounds so inviting, a freedom from the noise, but its wrong, its wrong, its wrong and the noise is getting louder, mechanical and foreboding as it sees you, it knows you are there, and it wants to make you apart of it.

Anatawa hitorijanai

For a moment, there is quiet.

You breathe.

And fall through water.

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[Further and further he goes and]

[Honestly, he doesn't hear the subtle movements until he's passing the corner and there is suddenly a WHOLE LOT OF EYES AND PINK TENDRILS like six inches from Crow on his bad hearing side.]

[ He does not hear them in time but he does see them, and lets out a startled— ]

Shit--! ARCUS, activate!

[ And as quickly as he can, he is going to try and send out a Chrono Break (Time Arts to slow them down). ]

[It slows down the tentacles that were absolutely reaching for him, gives him chance to get space without having to dive headfirst into sewage.]

[The pathway is utterly filled with Kraang bits, pulsing and shifting and]

[There's something grey in there]

[ Crow takes several steps back and-- using his double saber is going to be useless. Right. But he needs to try and clear a path through to that something grey.

He's not going to announce using his ARCUS this time, but he's going to concentrate for a moment before setting off a Diamond Nova-- it's a very LARGE and very painful ice attack with an 80% chance of freezing the enemy. ]

[Its hard to say if the freeze kills or doesn't kill the tentacles, but what it DOES do is freeze the tentacles for the moment.]

[And maybe that grey thing, the ice is certainly getting to there.]

[At the very least Crow has a bit of time to act, HOW DO]

[ Crow is going to see if he can navigate through the frozen tentacles to get to the Grey Thing. ]

[He is able to navigate to the grey thing.]

[As he gets to the grey thing, he can see the tentacles are starting to move in the ice. They haven't broken free yet, but speed is the better part of valor right now.]

[He can also see the grey thing is]

[A child figure in a grey hoody]

[ Crow does not have time to think about this.

Actually, speaking of Time, he's going to very quickly shoot off a Chrono Burst, which increases his own personal time to make him move more quickly, grab the child figure, and make a mad dash to get out of the tentacle mass. ]

[Very good to have that Chrono Burst. It slows down the tentacles he's able to grab the now Very Cold, Very Green child from the ice and he can get out of the mass of tentacles.]

[ Sorry Very Cold, Green Child. He's holding onto them with as firm a grip as he can (which is, in fact, fairly firm and secure).

He is not stopping once he escapes the tentacle mass. He made a point of remembering where he was going just for a moment like this-- he is not stopping for even a second, running straight the hell back to the Personal Room. ]

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[Luckily between the Freeze and the Chrono Burst, he is able to make it back to the Personal Room without the tentacles catching up.]

[And he'll be able to see the child, about ten years old, in a grey mouse hoody.]

[ Does the child in grey perchance look like they could possibly have been a young Donatello?

Either way, he's placing the kid down on the bedding area. When he speaks, it's with a gentle tone. ]

Sorry about the cold. Are you hurt anywhere?

[ He's checking for injuries as he asks. ]

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[He does perchance look like a young Donatello. Complete with purple mask.]

[Also glasses he just has taped on his head.]

[He is also Out Cold, remember that brumating deal Crow?]

[But he does seem to be without injuries, at the very least.]

[ Oh right, that.

Oops.

Crow sighs. ]

And me without any Fire arts....

[ #WorthIt

He is going to bundle as many blankets as he can to warm the child figure up. ]

[Oops]

[At least there's blankets and]

[There is a feeling in the bed.]

[You are the one who has to make the evil choice. If it has to be made, you have to make it. This is what you can do that they can't, not without the cost being too steep.]

[But the blankets are going to help him warm up.]

The wrong things for the right reasons....

[ Crow gets it.

It won't necessarily help with warming him up, but he is going to cast a healing Arts on the child. It's water, but it's warm and bubbly and soothing. ]

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[Water is never a wrong choice in turtle heart.]

[It helps warm him up faster and a small wading pool just forms nearby.]

[Then Donnie groans, eyes opening to look up at Crow.]

Hey, kiddo. How are you feeling?

[ His tone is still gentle. ]

Cold.

[He sits up.]

Sorry 'bout that. It's the plan that had the highest chance of succeeding.

[ So like, he's not as sorry as he COULD be. ]

Would I be right in guessing you're Selfishness?

[He nods his head, looking up at Crow.]

Why did you help? Don't you hate me? I hurt you, I'm not supposed to hurt friends, that's how you lose friends.

[ Crow blinks at him, taken aback. ]

[ And then he laughs. It's not harsh laughter, it's startled but it's gentle. ]

Aidios, are you serious? You mean with the whole "kidnapping" thing? I won't lie and tell you I'm not mad about it, but I could tell something was wrong. And besides....

[ He taps the kid's chest, right where the heart would be (for a human, at least. IDK my BFF turtle biology). ]

Intentions mean a lot. And I know you were trying to protect them.

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[Eh, close enough for where his heart is.]

I always want to protect all of you. That's what Protectiveness is supposed to do, to make plans, but I know I'm not supposed to cross certain lines.

If I cross those lines, then people won't like me.

[ "All of you" is going to get mentally skipped right over because including Crow in protection is so utterly alien he can't even process it. ]

It's true it'll piss people off. It could even cross lines you don't normally wanna cross. But you'd be surprised at people's capacity for forgiveness.

You haven't done anything unforgivable. Not yet. If you give them a heartfelt apology and show with your actions that you'll try to learn and do better, I think you'll find that the people who care about you will understand.

And as for me? I don't hate you. Not for this or anything else that you've done. In some ways, I even understand you.

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