[ The sisters are so eager to help, sharing their power freely as things start to happen with Knives' aid. Tessla is still very scared, especially as her insides are slowly guided back into her open upper body. Feeling your own organs move around without pain is like a fever dream, and if it wasn't for the soothing comfort of Vash's, she might have panicked completely.
Ribs reform with a glowing light to shield her lungs again, and the happy murmurs and soft coaxing from the plants continue as their wings are healed, the bloody rip from Tessla breaking free stops bleeding... it's a shared rejuvenation.
A small heart is given a shield by a sternum reforming to protect it, and several feet of guts no longer has to drag in the sand. The spine needs more time, slowly reforming to connect with her lower half. Once the pieces meet with a pulse of light, Tessla gasps and clings tighter to the feathers around her. She can't really physically feel it, but just knowing she's not half a girl any more brings back more of that fragile hope.
However, just like Knives predicted, Tessla does have a very fractured sense of what she is supposed to look like, even without the addition of the many-limbed strange normality for the plants. One arm is finally restored to what could be considered normal, while the one that had been in a separate tank is still having some issues. It was connected to a wing in the attempt to save her, just like her eyes, and there's some difficulty for them all to put it back right.
The eyes are simpler and not at the same time; a face is easier to understand, and there are spaces for them in her mutilated face. The wing that assimilated them wrap around her head like a blindfold, using both the healing and the shifting form of gestalt to try to transfer them.
It does mean that Tessla is blind for a while, but that's okay - she's been blind a lot of times back when they did experiments on her.
All through out this, the feather cocoon is shrinking slowly. ]
continuing the body horror
Ribs reform with a glowing light to shield her lungs again, and the happy murmurs and soft coaxing from the plants continue as their wings are healed, the bloody rip from Tessla breaking free stops bleeding... it's a shared rejuvenation.
A small heart is given a shield by a sternum reforming to protect it, and several feet of guts no longer has to drag in the sand. The spine needs more time, slowly reforming to connect with her lower half. Once the pieces meet with a pulse of light, Tessla gasps and clings tighter to the feathers around her. She can't really physically feel it, but just knowing she's not half a girl any more brings back more of that fragile hope.
However, just like Knives predicted, Tessla does have a very fractured sense of what she is supposed to look like, even without the addition of the many-limbed strange normality for the plants. One arm is finally restored to what could be considered normal, while the one that had been in a separate tank is still having some issues. It was connected to a wing in the attempt to save her, just like her eyes, and there's some difficulty for them all to put it back right.
The eyes are simpler and not at the same time; a face is easier to understand, and there are spaces for them in her mutilated face. The wing that assimilated them wrap around her head like a blindfold, using both the healing and the shifting form of gestalt to try to transfer them.
It does mean that Tessla is blind for a while, but that's okay - she's been blind a lot of times back when they did experiments on her.
All through out this, the feather cocoon is shrinking slowly. ]