Adana barely sleeps during the evacuation. She eats and drinks when handed food and while keeping portals open, and the bathroom is reserved for when she has nothing better to do. She organizes, she goes where told, and she opens portals. She does a bit of mental math, and then every time she opens a portal she tries just a little bit harder to get it open another inch. By day five, she's stubbornly clawed another foot and a half out of her portals, even though every time she opens one of those she collapses to the ground in a whimper. It doesn't matter, she'll recover, she'll be fine, she can't stand by and let these people die, a foot and a half means more people can get through at one time, you can stuff a hell of a lot of people through a portal if you try really hard. And they are trying really hard.
Savannah is a huge, huge help. She doesn't stay awake at the absurdly skimpy sleep schedule Adana and Bella keep up, and has to eat far more than both of them combined, but when she's awake and moving she moves fast and keeps people going where they need to go and helping her sister put portals in the right spots so that as many people as possible can get through portals.
Adana can only move one end of a portal, if she wants to. This becomes important when she hears her sister screech by twining, "Fuck, it's happening, Adana get me out of here!"
She obliges. Savannah speeds through, ash trailing behind and says, "Okay, close it, close it-"
This one, Adana does not do. Well, not until she's on the other side of it, anyway. Savannah's her anchor, Adana can make portals faster than Savannah can take people to them if she makes them small. If she makes them person sized, or family sized, rather than big enough for several cars. Her sister is screaming at her through twining, but she ignores it, she doesn't have time to listen, she is busy.
The world is shaking, and then there is heat and fire and ash and Adana doesn't care, Adana doesn't give a damn, what she cares about is portal, portal, portal, this person saved, that family through the portal, then close it immediately because there's a car sailing through the air right for it and she does not want to crush the poor souls on the other side of the portal. A chunk of debris, some rubble - heading for a car that's still got people in it, a cute little family of four - she sends it flying the other direction with a set of portals, and then scoops them up into a portal when they're all out of the car -
- And then the ground rumbles again and she's sent flying and she doesn't even bother to scream, all she's thinking about is portals, portals, portals - she catches herself with a portal and sends herself flying at some pour soul whose leg is under a car. She slams into the car, winces in pain, and then goes back to thinking about portals. A portal under him too small for the car to fit through, send him back to Savannah but not squished. Next person, next person, there's still some ground to stand on, she doesn't need to leave yet. She can grab that preschooler over there but she has to pick her up and put her through because she can't just throw a preschooler through.
A hand grabs her arm through the portal when she's depositing the kid. The hand yanks her through. The hand belongs to her sister.
"Wait, no, Savannah, put me back, there's still time, there's still people, let me go -"
"Fuck no. Close the portal, we're out of time."
"No," whimpers Adana, sobbing, but her sister's grip is a vice and she can't scramble back through to put down more portals and then there is another chunk of debris coming and she has to close the portal or the people here will get hurt.
And then, because getting back there in any reasonable amount of time is impossible, she collapses to the ground and finally, finally lets herself cry.
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Savannah is a huge, huge help. She doesn't stay awake at the absurdly skimpy sleep schedule Adana and Bella keep up, and has to eat far more than both of them combined, but when she's awake and moving she moves fast and keeps people going where they need to go and helping her sister put portals in the right spots so that as many people as possible can get through portals.
Adana can only move one end of a portal, if she wants to. This becomes important when she hears her sister screech by twining, "Fuck, it's happening, Adana get me out of here!"
She obliges. Savannah speeds through, ash trailing behind and says, "Okay, close it, close it-"
This one, Adana does not do. Well, not until she's on the other side of it, anyway. Savannah's her anchor, Adana can make portals faster than Savannah can take people to them if she makes them small. If she makes them person sized, or family sized, rather than big enough for several cars. Her sister is screaming at her through twining, but she ignores it, she doesn't have time to listen, she is busy.
The world is shaking, and then there is heat and fire and ash and Adana doesn't care, Adana doesn't give a damn, what she cares about is portal, portal, portal, this person saved, that family through the portal, then close it immediately because there's a car sailing through the air right for it and she does not want to crush the poor souls on the other side of the portal. A chunk of debris, some rubble - heading for a car that's still got people in it, a cute little family of four - she sends it flying the other direction with a set of portals, and then scoops them up into a portal when they're all out of the car -
- And then the ground rumbles again and she's sent flying and she doesn't even bother to scream, all she's thinking about is portals, portals, portals - she catches herself with a portal and sends herself flying at some pour soul whose leg is under a car. She slams into the car, winces in pain, and then goes back to thinking about portals. A portal under him too small for the car to fit through, send him back to Savannah but not squished. Next person, next person, there's still some ground to stand on, she doesn't need to leave yet. She can grab that preschooler over there but she has to pick her up and put her through because she can't just throw a preschooler through.
A hand grabs her arm through the portal when she's depositing the kid. The hand yanks her through. The hand belongs to her sister.
"Wait, no, Savannah, put me back, there's still time, there's still people, let me go -"
"Fuck no. Close the portal, we're out of time."
"No," whimpers Adana, sobbing, but her sister's grip is a vice and she can't scramble back through to put down more portals and then there is another chunk of debris coming and she has to close the portal or the people here will get hurt.
And then, because getting back there in any reasonable amount of time is impossible, she collapses to the ground and finally, finally lets herself cry.