[ how frustrating this entire thing had become, but Yukina is admittedly hoping to find answers of the more distinct variety by completing the so called mission to rescue the kidnapped priestess. It's the only thing she can insist to herself that she do to be productive and useful while trying to figure a way of escape back home (but if her world is truly gone...) ]
Ah...? [ caught in her thoughts, she isn't expecting to be left hanging mid-air, although confusion settles before panic, particularly as everything in the game glitches. Before she has a chance to further assess the situation she's suddenly standing, the entire environment taking on a much more realistic (and horrific) form. Because it is truly a sky she remembers well, only not in that color.
The awful sound of that scream brings her to jerk her attention from the sky and down around to see individuals panicking and attempting to flee, only to never get far in their terror as their images collapse and shatter. Eyes wide, Yukina brings a hand to her mouth in disbelief, pushing herself to finally move a few steps forward despite the crowd moving in the opposite direction. And that's when she sees the large beast that has already spotted her and singled her out.
But, its pained roar is as frightening as it is conflicting and she can't seem to make sense of anything... except.
Except, there's a body on the ground between her and the dragon and not an unfamiliar one. her heart starts to pound, feeling sickness wash over her like a wave (she knows him, she knows him). She tells her this isn't real and that there's no reason to react the way she is but it feels so very much so that it's as if she's suddenly feeling all that agony the dragon and the people falling into pieces are experiencing. But, despite herself wanting to go to him (because he can't be dead—no he's not real, yukina, stop it—he's not dead—!) she can't move, only the visuals around her bleeding over her and sinking further into her mind.
She screams; and it's a frustrated and fear-filled scream, but it's only once she's on the ground with her attack suddenly completed as if it had never been interrupted in the first place does she realize that she did so, her throat feeling uncomfortable and raw from the strain. She's back in the game environment; no dragon, no body, and no visuals of a world she called her own.
Yukina swallows, feeling embarrassed by her outburst (as well as her ridiculous... Hallucinations? Who knows.), and silently rises to her feet, sheathing her blade in the process before dropping her gaze to the carcass of the motionless imp her blade had struck.
Was that part of the game just now? Or something—she blinks, glancing up suddenly towards the darkness only to be greeted by that flickering image before it's swallowed back into the darkness. Eyes wide, she lets herself linger in surprise, staring in the (hopefully now) empty darkness.
What... what was that just now? ]
Bonus }
[ absolutely not what she expected when logged out of the game, but to Yukina's credit she is taking to the new... Erm, attire, at least calmly. Currently, she's tugging curiously at the sleeves of the costume, not bothering to push the hood back just yet, instead pulling at the front in hopes to glance down it and see that despite the costume, she still as her normal clothes underneath it... ]
yukina :: toki no kizuna
[ how frustrating this entire thing had become, but Yukina is admittedly hoping to find answers of the more distinct variety by completing the so called mission to rescue the kidnapped priestess. It's the only thing she can insist to herself that she do to be productive and useful while trying to figure a way of escape back home (but if her world is truly gone...) ]
Ah...? [ caught in her thoughts, she isn't expecting to be left hanging mid-air, although confusion settles before panic, particularly as everything in the game glitches. Before she has a chance to further assess the situation she's suddenly standing, the entire environment taking on a much more realistic (and horrific) form. Because it is truly a sky she remembers well, only not in that color.
The awful sound of that scream brings her to jerk her attention from the sky and down around to see individuals panicking and attempting to flee, only to never get far in their terror as their images collapse and shatter. Eyes wide, Yukina brings a hand to her mouth in disbelief, pushing herself to finally move a few steps forward despite the crowd moving in the opposite direction. And that's when she sees the large beast that has already spotted her and singled her out.
But, its pained roar is as frightening as it is conflicting and she can't seem to make sense of anything... except.
Except, there's a body on the ground between her and the dragon and not an unfamiliar one. her heart starts to pound, feeling sickness wash over her like a wave (she knows him, she knows him). She tells her this isn't real and that there's no reason to react the way she is but it feels so very much so that it's as if she's suddenly feeling all that agony the dragon and the people falling into pieces are experiencing. But, despite herself wanting to go to him (because he can't be dead—no he's not real, yukina, stop it—he's not dead—!) she can't move, only the visuals around her bleeding over her and sinking further into her mind.
She screams; and it's a frustrated and fear-filled scream, but it's only once she's on the ground with her attack suddenly completed as if it had never been interrupted in the first place does she realize that she did so, her throat feeling uncomfortable and raw from the strain. She's back in the game environment; no dragon, no body, and no visuals of a world she called her own.
Yukina swallows, feeling embarrassed by her outburst (as well as her ridiculous... Hallucinations? Who knows.), and silently rises to her feet, sheathing her blade in the process before dropping her gaze to the carcass of the motionless imp her blade had struck.
Was that part of the game just now? Or something—she blinks, glancing up suddenly towards the darkness only to be greeted by that flickering image before it's swallowed back into the darkness. Eyes wide, she lets herself linger in surprise, staring in the (hopefully now) empty darkness.
What... what was that just now? ]
Bonus }
[ absolutely not what she expected when logged out of the game, but to Yukina's credit she is taking to the new... Erm, attire, at least calmly. Currently, she's tugging curiously at the sleeves of the costume, not bothering to push the hood back just yet, instead pulling at the front in hopes to glance down it and see that despite the costume, she still as her normal clothes underneath it... ]
...So much for answers, even after all that.
[ Ugh. ]