𓏵 ⋮ 𝑺𝑯𝑰𝑵𝑬 ⊹ ₊ ✖

Shine was walking down the streets as usual. She investigated around, as this particular area was empty. Unusual for the town, but she continued. As she walked, she realizes that she's missing her scarf. "Well, fuck." The woman grabs a gun from her backpack. She inspects it and reloads it, making sure the weapon was ready.

After a bit of staring, she raises it. Not to her sides, and not to point at someone else. She raises it straight to her jaw—

BANG!

There was no hesitation in the action.

Her body, now limp, fell backwards into the floor. The blood was sent flying to nearby walls, and it pooled around her head, which was... Quite unrecognizable by now. The gun had fallen somewhere to her side.

She laid there, dying, until her eyes, which were pointed upwards, settled down into simple lines, and her smile completely faded.

She was dead.

After a few seconds of the gore settling and her body stilling from motion, all of it vanished with no transition. The blood, her brains, the gun and her entire body—Gone, in an instant. A figure flickered back to existence... Shine's, of course. She respawned in a standing position, scarf back on, bat poised on her waist like always, her smile already on again. "Now that's better!"

She glanced around to make sure there were no witnesses to her anomalous actions.