There is no bigger tragedy in this situation than Skyler's unwitting blindness to the shipwreck she's just made of the woman in front of her. Willfully singing parker jones into jagged rocks because she'd never considered how they'd rip into unprotected flesh, and too selfish to pull back even then.

Because they've hurt each other in so many ways that sent their blood pumping, that had them gloriously drunk on adrenaline, that sent them into that liminal space where nothing existed beyond the scope of each other's ragged breaths.

It'd been intoxicating, beautifully feral, but it didn't hurt, not really. Not in the ways that mattered.

Except that it did hurt. Just not Skyler herself.

She doesn't shy away from the full force of parker jones 's hateful glare, if only because she's far too willing to face violence head on. It reminds Skyler of how beautiful ruination can be in the wake of a furious storm - unaware that she's at its center.

Only then does the faintest sense of wrongness trickle into her brain. A mental stumble that carves deep grooves between her brows.

Skyler isn't given time to mull on those thoughts when she feels the last dregs of her time here running out. As if sensing this, Dhelmise reappears by Amulius' side. Seaweed tendrils snap around legs and arms, pumping a shadowy substance into the Blaziken's body.

Curse of the Drowned: tendrils of ghostly kelp strike nearby opponents' souls, temporarily turning them weak to water-type moves and disabling healing.

"Just in case," the captain says with a lopsided grin, finally pulling away from Parker's personal bubble and walking back towards Dhelmise's Phantom Force.

mitchel kane is treated to a wink, which he probably doesn't perceive due to being high as fuck. And Parker would see the first hints of a terrible understanding cross Skyler's expression, silver eyes cutting past the distance to pierce into Pinkie's own.

There's no trace of regret in their depths.

Then darkness engulfs her and she's gone.

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she's left standing there, feeling like a dumbstruck fool, wishing she still had that stupid nick in her skin. something to hurt. something elsewhere to focus on the pain. but skyler took that from her too. 

amulius shudders violently and drops to his knees as whatever's inside of his meat is twisted about and turned inside out. he flexes his claws into the earth and makes a low, whining chirp, one even parker's never heard before. still, it doesn't pull her attention away from the hypnotizing figure as she withdraws back out the portal. 

parker flexes her fingers. she looks down at herself, utters a very forceful "fuck" and then drags her sorry ass over to where mitch is. 

she snaps her fingers in front of his face. 

"sober up, asshole. and repeat after me: you didn't see the glowing whale and the blonde chick's name never came up. got me?"

skyler dross  mitchel kane
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