[ It doesn't make sense. Why would D be a threat, isn't it meant to be a game? But the question doesn't have time to find purchase, swept away in the rush of adrenaline and fear as instinctive as it is wrong.
His own Shadow's gone quiet, no longer merely goading but seeping into his limbs and lungs. It embraces the same fear it inflicts, forcing Cedrik to keep running, to look back and see D closing in and the destruction left in his wake. More death. Endless and inescapable. He's not immune, no one is. Why pretend to be brave?
Between the roaring of his own heart, the rapid beating of running footsteps, and the old man shouting at D it's impossible to hear anything else. Even the other presence, usually so close and familiar, goes unnoticed, struggling to be felt at all.
The first turn Cedrik takes he realizes the futility of it. These walls are a suggestion, there’s nothing to keep D from cutting a line straight through to kill him.
There’s nothing keeping Cedrik from doing the same to escape.
Rather than turn again, the viera raises an arm and crashes through the next wall of the maze, husks fraying behind him. ]
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His own Shadow's gone quiet, no longer merely goading but seeping into his limbs and lungs. It embraces the same fear it inflicts, forcing Cedrik to keep running, to look back and see D closing in and the destruction left in his wake. More death. Endless and inescapable. He's not immune, no one is. Why pretend to be brave?
Between the roaring of his own heart, the rapid beating of running footsteps, and the old man shouting at D it's impossible to hear anything else. Even the other presence, usually so close and familiar, goes unnoticed, struggling to be felt at all.
The first turn Cedrik takes he realizes the futility of it. These walls are a suggestion, there’s nothing to keep D from cutting a line straight through to kill him.
There’s nothing keeping Cedrik from doing the same to escape.
Rather than turn again, the viera raises an arm and crashes through the next wall of the maze, husks fraying behind him. ]