“She’s the one Crawler visited?” I asked.
Trickster nodded once.
“Hello?’ A girl’s voice came from the computer. Trickster hit a key, which I assumed was to take himself off mute.
No video for either Oliver or Noelle… of course. Still keeping Noelle as the monster in the dark.

He hit another combination of keys and a webcam feed snapped up to cover the screen.
…or maybe not! Let’s see what this transformation looks like.
Heh, maybe there is no visible transformation after all, that’d be quite the twist. The ferocity, the strength, the hunger… and she looks completely normal.
Noelle had long brown hair and she wore a red sweatshirt. She looked like someone who was ill. She was horribly pale, she had dark circles under her sunken eyes, and her lips were chapped.
…nice. Not completely normal, but not a monster either. Right now, anyway – there might be a transformation when she loses control and goes feral.
I was reminded of drug addicts in an early stage of addiction, where they were deteriorating because the drugs took a higher priority than taking care of themselves. Was Coil drugging her too?
Not q– actually, I don’t know. He might be. It’s not the main cause of this, though.