Board Thread:Role Plays (AU)/@comment-26104528-20160518030112/@comment-25924729-20160617083925

Outwardly, she remained motionless, eyes shut tight. But her subconscious was on fire, sifting through countless old memories, like a mental slideshow set on fast forward, uncovering secrets and old memories, even the ones Zhu-li preferred not to revisit...

''...A nervous young girl clad in a torn blue hoodie, in a ring of howling men screaming cheers, insults or other vulgarities. A barb wire garotte was thrust in her hands. More children were forced into the cage, bearing crude weapons, equally scared and confused. The audience's chanting could be heard clearly now: "Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!..." A gong sounded, signalling the start of the fight. And then... and then...''

She flinched, clearly disturbed but struggling to maintain focus, else the Drift be compromised. Instead, Zhu-li's subconscious strayed to Valka's memories. Whatever there was couldn't be worse than her own past anyway.