doesnothappen | IC: Dream Post

IC: Dream Post

The space you are standing in is cold and grey and very still. There is nothing beneath your feet, nowhere to go. You hang for a long moment, in this place with no place, without direction or a proper sense of time, until the light dims...

...and your feet touch ground. Your eyes are closed. When you open them, you find yourself here.

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[ugh ugh too much wind to dodge properly, too big to dodge, he spent a split second too long noticing Mau and Selenia--]

Wind!

[and a circle of his own wind bursts around him, leaving him in the calm spot in the center, he's not expecting it to do any damage, just serve as a bit of a buffer. crossing both his arms over his chest, left on the outside, wingblades forming a shield of light, gritting his teeth. this is gonna suck, probably break at least one arm, but he doesn't care how much he's hurt as long as he's conscious enough to heal--]

Locaha's hand crashes into you, a wall of blackness -- it's like getting hit by a semi truck, to use a completely anachronistic analogy. Even with the shielding, it knocks you out of the sky, and if his skin makes contact with you it's like being slashed with razors, burning cold.

(And his other hand is squeezing shut around Mau and Selenia, while Mau futilely tries to drag him away.)

[probably only minimal skin contact, but ow, shouting with pain, not much use in his left arm right now--but that, that's unacceptable, letting his keyblade shift to glider mode as he falls tumbling through the sky, the wingblades disappearing, righting himself in midair with a catlike flip within a second to land on top of it, pushing through the pain and blasting towards Mau and Selenia at top speed with a battle roar]

The hand holding Mau and Selenia is... opening again? Yes, opening and rising toward you, turning sideways -- Mau and Selenia are slipping, sliding down, but not fast enough, because you're between Locaha's hands now and he is clapping them together.

[and this when I only have one working arm, and can't spellcast because glider, and I could try putting up my barrier shield but they'd still be fucked--]

Jump--!

[last-ditch charge to try to scruff--he doesn't even have time to decide, whichever is closer--and throw him out of the way. he knows he's dead, there's nothing he can do about that, but he'll be damned if he doesn't go down trying to save his friends.]

You reach Mau -- he's flung free, screaming your name and Selenia's -- and then you are crushed between two slabs of onrushing darkness.

[welp. that. isn't my best death ever, but at least it's not my awfulest. I just wish I had time to say that I'm sorry 8(]

There's pain only for a moment, and then nothingness and darkness...

But you -- your mind, your consciousness -- you're still here.

...oh.

You're alone, floating in the dark, bodiless... but somewhere near you, somehow, there's a shining silver thread.

Mau...I don't know if you can even hear me, but...I'm sorry. I did everything I could.

[focusing on that then, seeing if it's possible to follow it]

There's no answer, no sense of any other presence. Once you focus on it, it seems to pull you along. Slowly, the darkness around you lifts, fading little by little to a murky grey.

[figured that, but it was worth trying]

[following then, letting it pull him...okay light, any light is good]

As the light increases, so does your sense of self. You can perceive your own limbs again. You slow to a stop, the silver thread fading, and then gradually you become aware that you're not hanging in space, you're lying face down, eyes closed...

[oh hey I even have an icon for this]

[stirring very weakly, if such is possible]

It is! You're lying on sand, battered and so sore that any movement is an enormous effort, but definitely alive, on this beach.

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