[There's a brief, desperate instant when Sieglinde doesn't quite understand that the person grabbing her is helping. When the fear of being buried alive makes her afraid that this person might just be another threat, someone to lash out at-
But they pull her free, dirt clinging to her lacy clothes, her pale limbs, her disheveled dark hair, and she coughs, choking on what she's accidentally inhaled... and then chokes again in shock as she pitches forward, bracing herself for an impact that...
Is softened by someone else. She still let out a muffled shriek, trying to shield her head, but she ends up sprawled over what feels like a person... and once she hastily clears the soil from her face and blinks open wide, emerald eyes... It is a young woman.
But she can't ask why yet, or how. When she tries, the only thing that comes out is a ragged cough, and the small hands once grabbed and pulled to safety now curl anxiously in the shirt of her savior, anchoring desperately to someone as her tiny body hunches over with cough and tremors.
But between them, as she hastily clears her airway, is a sound that could seem like "where". Or is it "how"?]
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But they pull her free, dirt clinging to her lacy clothes, her pale limbs, her disheveled dark hair, and she coughs, choking on what she's accidentally inhaled... and then chokes again in shock as she pitches forward, bracing herself for an impact that...
Is softened by someone else. She still let out a muffled shriek, trying to shield her head, but she ends up sprawled over what feels like a person... and once she hastily clears the soil from her face and blinks open wide, emerald eyes... It is a young woman.
But she can't ask why yet, or how. When she tries, the only thing that comes out is a ragged cough, and the small hands once grabbed and pulled to safety now curl anxiously in the shirt of her savior, anchoring desperately to someone as her tiny body hunches over with cough and tremors.
But between them, as she hastily clears her airway, is a sound that could seem like "where". Or is it "how"?]