[when he hears something moving in the water, he drags himself out immediately, since whatever it is, he has no wish to meet it any closer. shit, he really wishes he had a gun, but the familiar weight of the 9mm he usually carries is gone, too.]
[then, he turns and sees Liquid, and freezes. the scales and the fact that he's swimming in some kind of nonhuman way are strange, but at this point, Kaz has seen stranger. what gets him is something deeply, deeply uncanny about the creature's (man's?) face. it takes him a second or two to realize it's Big Boss' face, attached to a blond head of hair and a British accent. and Liquid's words catch up to him. 'bring father'. wait--]
Eli...?!
[he fails entirely to hide his shock and incredulity, and 'hallucination' goes up a notch on his theories of what could be happening. that is what looks like adult Eli's face, attached to a scaly something that's swimming, which seems like something that'd be fair game for his subconscious to throw out.]
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[then, he turns and sees Liquid, and freezes. the scales and the fact that he's swimming in some kind of nonhuman way are strange, but at this point, Kaz has seen stranger. what gets him is something deeply, deeply uncanny about the creature's (man's?) face. it takes him a second or two to realize it's Big Boss' face, attached to a blond head of hair and a British accent. and Liquid's words catch up to him. 'bring father'. wait--]
Eli...?!
[he fails entirely to hide his shock and incredulity, and 'hallucination' goes up a notch on his theories of what could be happening. that is what looks like adult Eli's face, attached to a scaly something that's swimming, which seems like something that'd be fair game for his subconscious to throw out.]