[ The filter probably isn't doing much, to be honest, aside from being wasted on miasma particles that clog it up as fast as if he were still in Novosibirsk. But Miller doesn't know that, only knows the sluggishness that's trying to take over him, and he wants to fight against it while he still has time.
That being said, there's a shift in Toph's attitude, a force that seems to aspire to get in the way of this. It's almost unnaturally calm, which causes him to take pause he normally wouldn't after he's plunged it into the snake's head. ]
Toph —
[ He lets go, but the slight confusion he starts with becomes silence as she uses her bending to begin cutting the creature in deliberate strokes. It didn't seem like the air could thicken any more than it already had until now. Miller stumbles back instinctively, and stares as the body of Lila comes into view, bloodied and... rotting. Grabbing his abandoned gun, he gets to his feet to rush back over to Toph, forcefully grabbing her shoulder in an attempt to interrupt her bending. ]
Stop! She's already too far gone!
[ In the pit of his stomach, he doesn't feel good about it, but there's no use in dwelling on the thoughts swirling around in his mind right now. There is a nausea setting in to join the exhaustion and that man who collapsed earlier—if they want to save him, it's now or risk their own hides as well.
When he realizes it, he leaves her side to go to his, but the effort needed to do this is becoming much more difficult to push past. Panting, he starts trying to lift the fellow over his shoulder. ]
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That being said, there's a shift in Toph's attitude, a force that seems to aspire to get in the way of this. It's almost unnaturally calm, which causes him to take pause he normally wouldn't after he's plunged it into the snake's head. ]
Toph —
[ He lets go, but the slight confusion he starts with becomes silence as she uses her bending to begin cutting the creature in deliberate strokes. It didn't seem like the air could thicken any more than it already had until now. Miller stumbles back instinctively, and stares as the body of Lila comes into view, bloodied and... rotting. Grabbing his abandoned gun, he gets to his feet to rush back over to Toph, forcefully grabbing her shoulder in an attempt to interrupt her bending. ]
Stop! She's already too far gone!
[ In the pit of his stomach, he doesn't feel good about it, but there's no use in dwelling on the thoughts swirling around in his mind right now. There is a nausea setting in to join the exhaustion and that man who collapsed earlier—if they want to save him, it's now or risk their own hides as well.
When he realizes it, he leaves her side to go to his, but the effort needed to do this is becoming much more difficult to push past. Panting, he starts trying to lift the fellow over his shoulder. ]