[Keeping the skin in one piece isn't important to Atem; what made him make the noise was surprise at making a mistake. He's distracted, which, again, isn't a bad thing because it means he's not thinking about how he feels like most of him is still in too-tight dry glue, but he's still surprised it happened.
Okay. Okay, the neck is going to be tricky. Atem uses the claw of his forefinger again to cut the skin -- he traces along the edge of his jaw from ear to ear, then down the center of his neck. He pulls the two halves of his neck shed apart, then....
....he's going to have to pull his own face off.
It would be easier if he could shut his eyes. But he can't. The layer of eye he can see through again is going to have to come off, and Atem has to fight back intrusive thoughts of his whole eye coming out, like he saw Emily do for Horatio during the sacrifice-surgeries last month, like he felt the Storyteller do only two weeks ago...!
He swallows. His heart's going fast.]
You don't have any bright ideas for when I get to the eyes, do you?
cw eye scream ideation
Okay. Okay, the neck is going to be tricky. Atem uses the claw of his forefinger again to cut the skin -- he traces along the edge of his jaw from ear to ear, then down the center of his neck. He pulls the two halves of his neck shed apart, then....
....he's going to have to pull his own face off.
It would be easier if he could shut his eyes. But he can't. The layer of eye he can see through again is going to have to come off, and Atem has to fight back intrusive thoughts of his whole eye coming out, like he saw Emily do for Horatio during the sacrifice-surgeries last month, like he felt the Storyteller do only two weeks ago...!
He swallows. His heart's going fast.]
You don't have any bright ideas for when I get to the eyes, do you?
[This is a request for help.]