by Shari » Mon Mar 05, 2018 5:02 pm
"Good, that helps." Shari says, sitting down next to Natalie's comatose body and looking at her robot body with an almost scrutinizing intensity. The improvised mixture of drugs starts smoking more and Shari take a deep breath, her features shifting and readjusting, taking on more angular, vaguely Asian features, her hair losing it's color, starting at the roots and spreading down. Limbs stretch out, her whole body growing and soon she looks like a passable double of Ashlie. She focuses her eyes on Natashlie again and her features adjust ever so slightly here and there. Even her posture changes as she works on perfecting the mimicry, shoulders straighten, sitting up more stiffly.
"Okay..." she says with her own voice, then stops. "Hang on..." the words wobble a little as she adjusts her throat, tuning her voice. "There. Alright. If you were organic the smoke would help you get in the right state of mind, so you'll just have to try without. Close your eyes or... shut them off? And just focus on my voice. Picture yourself, the first thing that comes to mind and hold that image in your head. Focus on yourself, your hands, your face, not what you'd see in the mirror, not what you remember seeing in the mirror. None of those things are true anyway. Only hold on to what comes to mind first when you think of your face. Your body..."