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Lady Sombra
Were she fully substantial, the blow he struck may well have ended her life. As it is, it will be some time before either her speaking or her breathing will be done without pain. It will perhaps be even longer before she recovers from her shock at the unforgiving decisiveness of his anger. Her throat! He struck her throat.....
Reflexively her hands move to the wound and she is unsure whether or not she should be grateful that her fingers, and her throat for that matter, are not yet so substantial that she might truly feel the incipient scar. She gasps, an action that immediately produces a spasm of painful coughing. When the coughing subsides, however, she smiles - a slight and thoughtful smile. There is a physicality about the pain ..... and ..... there is something more .... a scar is forming. What substance she had gained when her anger had seized hold of the Other has been lost and dissipated an ephemeral thing but a scar forms about the wound.
In pain one finds substance, she says quietly and once more her fingers move to touch her wounded throat.
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