22) What would Paige see when they’re immersed in the Hallucigen gas?
Fallout 4 Prompts!
The exposure had been momentary. A single breath of bad air that was instantly identified as her body forced it back out with a cough, not unlike the first breath on a cold winter morning shocking the lungs and getting rejected in similar fashion.
In fact, it felt cold as it flowed up her sinuses. Even as she stepped back, it was a seeping, creeping hand of ice that infected her face, clawed down into her throat, and up behind her eyes. There was a split second where her skull felt vitrified, as if every tiny vein had been frozen solid in an instant; even as her lungs rejected the invasion more stringently.
Cold. Dry, sudden cold. Not the pleasant kind, associated with morning sun and fresh flakes of glittering snow.
No, rather the kind that smelled of antiseptic and recycled air.
“You okay?”
A voice from behind, but she didn’t process who it was or where she was-- because all at once, she was back there--
Back in the pod, shivering, coughing, cold--
She turned, and there was fire on the back of her neck. Unholy fury and brought her rifle to bear at where the voice had been without a single question of who had to be there--
Didn’t matter that she’d already killed him once, not when she could see his face so clearly--
Kellogg.
