Betelgeuse gasps a huge, huge lungful of his first breath, feeling - oh god, actually feeling - the air rush into him. And cries out;
"I'M ALIVE!"
Because when the dust settles around the room, he sure is.
He sits dumbly on his knees on Rhys' bed, feeling around him. His hair is a dark brown, eyes still a bit bloodshot from lack of sleep and stubble no longer flecked with green. The maniac look in his eye is gone, replaced with something far more shocked.
The general shape of Betelgeuse-the-human remains the same, but he's flabberghasted at how much everything feels different now.
"Oh god. Oh god. Oh god, everything is so much. Wait. Hang on. What's that horrible smell? Is that me?"
He pauses to raise an arm and sniff his clothing. And in a smaller voice says;
"Oh god that's disgusting. Wait!" Betelgeuse leaps off the bed,
"I get it now! I feel disgusting! Holy shit, I didn't know how bad I could feel, I....oh god, ow. Ow, now I'm just...so full of shame, and regret, and god damn I didn't actually know that feelings could hit you right here!"
He pounds his chest where his living heart is, and winces.
"Ow. Wait. Ow? That hurt? Why does pain hurt now? All it did before was tickle." His hands move up around his neck to his head where he normally would have a skull seam and there's nothing. His skin is whole.
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"I'M ALIVE!"
Because when the dust settles around the room, he sure is.
He sits dumbly on his knees on Rhys' bed, feeling around him. His hair is a dark brown, eyes still a bit bloodshot from lack of sleep and stubble no longer flecked with green. The maniac look in his eye is gone, replaced with something far more shocked.
The general shape of Betelgeuse-the-human remains the same, but he's flabberghasted at how much everything feels different now.
"Oh god. Oh god. Oh god, everything is so much. Wait. Hang on. What's that horrible smell? Is that me?"
He pauses to raise an arm and sniff his clothing. And in a smaller voice says;
"Oh god that's disgusting. Wait!" Betelgeuse leaps off the bed,
"I get it now! I feel disgusting! Holy shit, I didn't know how bad I could feel, I....oh god, ow. Ow, now I'm just...so full of shame, and regret, and god damn I didn't actually know that feelings could hit you right here!"
He pounds his chest where his living heart is, and winces.
"Ow. Wait. Ow? That hurt? Why does pain hurt now? All it did before was tickle." His hands move up around his neck to his head where he normally would have a skull seam and there's nothing. His skin is whole.
"Oh god."
Overwhelmed with emotion, he collapses.