[Riku's not going to have to wait long. Tetsuo goes up, and up, and up, darkness surrounding him and folding around him. It feels like it's pressing in more and more the farther he goes, but he brushes off that ominous feeling that he's strayed too far, and farther...
Then it really is pressing in, oozing around him almost in an unsettlingly literal sense. He lets go, stopping his ascent as fast as he can, but physics propels him easily into the black morass above him. It slides around him, ominous and cool. You can't sink upwards, instinct screams at him. This makes no sense! But that's exactly what he's doing, caught in the gelatinous quicksand "ceiling".
This time, he gathers his energy and pushes away from it as hard as he can. It hardens around him at the sudden impact, locking him terrifyingly in place and only softening again when he has to take a second to refocus. WHAT?!! He can't even see a difference! It all looks the same!
His surprised yell is easily swallowed up by the darkness around him, and he doesn't try again, not sure he wants to find out if it can get in his mouth. Even though he could easily project right into the guy's mind, Tetsuo's not admitting that he's stuck in the ceiling of some shadow otherworld. He's got getting out to focus on, anyway.]
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Then it really is pressing in, oozing around him almost in an unsettlingly literal sense. He lets go, stopping his ascent as fast as he can, but physics propels him easily into the black morass above him. It slides around him, ominous and cool. You can't sink upwards, instinct screams at him. This makes no sense! But that's exactly what he's doing, caught in the gelatinous quicksand "ceiling".
This time, he gathers his energy and pushes away from it as hard as he can. It hardens around him at the sudden impact, locking him terrifyingly in place and only softening again when he has to take a second to refocus. WHAT?!! He can't even see a difference! It all looks the same!
His surprised yell is easily swallowed up by the darkness around him, and he doesn't try again, not sure he wants to find out if it can get in his mouth. Even though he could easily project right into the guy's mind, Tetsuo's not admitting that he's stuck in the ceiling of some shadow otherworld. He's got getting out to focus on, anyway.]