All of this said silently to himself as he tries to get his words to work again, his shaky breathing the only indicator for a moment that he’s still there.]
Which… Right. Right, I’m on…
[His brain won’t work. This isn’t the adrenaline rush of a heist going wrong, this the fear of someone looking at a monster from from another dimension and even after the better part of a year still not being able to slot it easily into his lived experience. This is the reaction of someone who knows they’ve just slipped into the category of prey animal.]
They’re moving. They’re going… some of them are going away. Some of them… aren’t.
no subject
All of this said silently to himself as he tries to get his words to work again, his shaky breathing the only indicator for a moment that he’s still there.]
Which… Right. Right, I’m on…
[His brain won’t work. This isn’t the adrenaline rush of a heist going wrong, this the fear of someone looking at a monster from from another dimension and even after the better part of a year still not being able to slot it easily into his lived experience. This is the reaction of someone who knows they’ve just slipped into the category of prey animal.]
They’re moving. They’re going… some of them are going away. Some of them… aren’t.