Gulps of air, then more terrified cries as she shrank back onto her cot in the healer's tents, everything in her body screaming wrong, wrong, wrong!
The terror of this thing reaching through kept her from moving, at first, before she could rouse her brother with her cries and be lead away, possibly somewhere safe. But it wouldn't be far enough not to feel it, like a wave of dread pulsing outward again and again. This is what it means to lose yourself, to slip even just once in dreaming.
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Gulps of air, then more terrified cries as she shrank back onto her cot in the healer's tents, everything in her body screaming wrong, wrong, wrong!
The terror of this thing reaching through kept her from moving, at first, before she could rouse her brother with her cries and be lead away, possibly somewhere safe. But it wouldn't be far enough not to feel it, like a wave of dread pulsing outward again and again. This is what it means to lose yourself, to slip even just once in dreaming.
This is what it means to fall.