[you are suddenly at the bottom of a pile of heavy, square-cornered objects. it is rather hard to breathe and they're jabbing you in uncomfortable places. you may want to move.]
[and after a moment he sits up again and unwraps one of his burnt, now thoroughly raw and bloody hands to drip a few drops of blood on top of said materia :|a]
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[peers back into the thread room to see if the center lantern is still lit]
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[climbs back up to the platform (sloooowly) and. flops over onto his back to think, holding the dull, inactive materia above him and jiiiii-ing at it]
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. . .
[and after a moment he sits up again and unwraps one of his burnt, now thoroughly raw and bloody hands to drip a few drops of blood on top of said materia :|a]
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you'll wake up back in Aather with the worst of your burns healed, and two functioning materia in your pocket.]