[Not a lot shocks Lila. She's seen a lot, most of it awful, and expects only the grimmest, cruelest things of humanity — and by extension, monsterkind. So it takes a lot to upset her. Like, a lot.]
[When she looks down and sees — doesn't see — Komaeda's tail, she flickers. Doesn't dim but flickers entirely out of existence, the shape of her stretching like taffy until it snaps and, like the final stripe of light on an old-school television, goes out.]
[An instant later she returns, along with a humming electrical surge. Every light in the building smashes on, bulbs shattering if they can't handle the wattage. Her microwave pops meekly, announcing its demise. The edges of her buzz and flicker, wisps coming off and drifting away. She's unattached to anything, drifting, empty]
[no]
[kill him kill him kill I'm gonna kill him gonna]
. . . Sure.
[Her voice sounds flat, distant, but casual somehow. She doesn't move, doesn't even look, as behind her a cabinet opens and a glass floats out. The freezer opens. Some ice cubes fly into the glass. The tap squeaks on, and the glass wanders over to place itself underneath the water.]
You want a bath? That's a thing, right . . . ? For mers. If you're dried out, or whatever . . .
[The glass drifts over to hover cheerfully in front of Komaeda. Lila is staring at him, eyes wide and blank and all-seeing.]
[kill him I'm gonna kill him with my teeth gonna eat him alive don't touch that's mine gonna kill him kill him kill]
cw dissociation
[When she looks down and sees — doesn't see — Komaeda's tail, she flickers. Doesn't dim but flickers entirely out of existence, the shape of her stretching like taffy until it snaps and, like the final stripe of light on an old-school television, goes out.]
[An instant later she returns, along with a humming electrical surge. Every light in the building smashes on, bulbs shattering if they can't handle the wattage. Her microwave pops meekly, announcing its demise. The edges of her buzz and flicker, wisps coming off and drifting away. She's unattached to anything, drifting, empty]
[no]
[kill him kill him kill I'm gonna kill him gonna]
. . . Sure.
[Her voice sounds flat, distant, but casual somehow. She doesn't move, doesn't even look, as behind her a cabinet opens and a glass floats out. The freezer opens. Some ice cubes fly into the glass. The tap squeaks on, and the glass wanders over to place itself underneath the water.]
You want a bath? That's a thing, right . . . ? For mers. If you're dried out, or whatever . . .
[The glass drifts over to hover cheerfully in front of Komaeda. Lila is staring at him, eyes wide and blank and all-seeing.]
[kill him I'm gonna kill him with my teeth gonna eat him alive don't touch that's mine gonna kill him kill him kill]