Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-28358106-20181001230640/@comment-28358106-20181024011754

(Jorge/S9) The silence is in the air is palpable, the others still as statues as Jorge begins. Thomas' voice is quick, but even and quiet, and in the silent room, it sounds far louder than it is. He gives directions as if reading from a map; his voice contains no trace of emotion, a far cry from how he was only twenty minutes ago. Small droplets of collateral acidic blood are already running down the tube, fizzling dramatically as they mix with the CO3 in the still below.

"Keep the pace...you're almost past the internal oblique. Stop.  Turn left on axis, one degree...stop.  You're about four milimeters from her fourth rib.  Her serratus major anchors her lower wing membrane there.  It's much larger than a human's.  Don't move up or you'll hit it.  It's flexing as she breathes..."

It suddenly occurs to Thomas that Jorge might know anatomical terms that he isn't familiar with, having learned a completely different way on a different world altogether. Nevertheless, he continues, sure that Jorge would say so if something wasn't clear. He explains to Jorge where he is inside Tirush's chest.

"...Just to the right of your tip is the bone shard. It's about five milimeters away.  It's lodged in her second lobe and is piercing a tertiary bronchus.  That's where the pool is.  You'll have to push in five centimeters and you'll be in the bronchus, but the shard is tapered short on the far side, so you'll have to push the tube laterally, to your left, by a centimeter, and it will go in parallel to your cut.  Don't over-push, or you'll rupture the cut deeper and risk tearing the bronchus further, and..."

The wound where the tube enters Tirush's side begins to seep. A rivulet of blood quickly runs down her side, dripping on the floor.

"Sun-Mi, CO3. Air the site." Thomas' voice is still even, but slightly raised, pressing the urgency of the situation. The gas byproduct of the acid hitting the floor causes a reaction, the air becoming tinged with the sour smell of the gas.