Morbid Pathology

OOC: Set shortly after Viper's death during phase 4 of the Halloween event

Aliana breathed a heavy sigh while she stared down at the blood and ooze covered corpse of Viper laid out across a table in her study. Seeing the tricolored woman lying still, eyes closed and jaws hung partially open in an eternally frozen fresco of death didn't feel real. It felt more like a bad dream; like she was drifting about in a daze. First her pups, now Viper... How many lives would this plague steal away? Though she had never once had a positive interaction with the savage of a wolf, Ali couldn't help but feel a twinge of sadness in her heart. Just because they hadn't gotten along didn't mean she'd ever wish ill on the poor woman. What a terrible way to die... she thought to herself while she studied the body. Chimera had filled her in on the more graphic details of Viper's demise so she knew what she was getting into, but Ali had insisted on doing the autopsy. She had to know what had happened to Viper, and more importantly, know what they were up against so they could best treat the sick children.

Pursing her lips, Aliana stepped away from the table and moved to gather up her tools, laying them out methodically and neatly in a row on the table near the corpse. She'd found many of them in one of the old buildings here, denoted with a red cross, along with an assortment of other valuable medical supplies and instruments. Around her nose and mouth, Aliana had wrapped a piece of cloth she'd scavenged from one of the old wardrobes in a sort of makeshift mask. She didn't know how infectious this disease was and she wasn't about to take any chances. "Okay... here we go." Taking a few deep breaths to psyche herself up, Ali grabbed a scalpel in her teeth from beneath her mask and began to make the first incisions on the corpse's torso, officially kicking off her first ever autopsy.

"Aliana"