Re: Between a Sledgehammer and a Hard Place
As Poco lifts Amaranth, it's undeniable that what he is carrying are her remains. She's utterly and incontrovertibly dead. Half-pulped, actually, in a state that doesn't even require checking her pulse to confirm her demise, and without getting into too much detail, makes picking her up difficult because she is 1) slippery and 2) tenuously connected in important places. The hardest thing is getting her out from the hole Sledgehammer pounded her into without snapping her fully in half, given that her legs are only connected to her torso by a spine which is, itself, better described as shattered than broken.
But there is a rather disconcerting shifting going on inside as he carries her back inside. By the bottom of the stairs, her skin is starting to pull itself back together, and Things slide and shift underneath it like eels in a swamp. Her right eye - missing when he picked her up - is a pool of milky-white goop, which isn't necessarily an improvement in the short term but seems to be headed in the right direction. Luckily, the eyelid regrows over it after a few moments.
Halfway down the hall, her leg twitches, as her broken ankle snaps back into place. There's a shiver, followed by a violent convulsion that requires a change from gentle-carrying to actual grip before the spasm hurls her onto the floor.
By the time he reaches the doctors, she's almost completely intact and could be taken for adorably asleep.
Although it might be worrying that she not only doesn't snore, but still isn't breathing.