For a moment Rashad simply panics when his would-be savior steps forward and disappears into thin air. Did he break it? Did Daniel lie, did he run away, was he taken --
The seeming stillness of the empty alley is neither stillness nor emptiness at all. Rashad's rasping breaths are the only sound over the dulled hubbub of the city around them, but he does not long believe himself to be alone, not when he can feel -- when Daniel is -- there, but not in a way that correlates to any of his physical senses, not when he can feel the other being reaching in and -- and --
The moment when something changes is unmarked by any external sign beyond the strained cry it draws from him. It is shocking and painful but right, like blood rushing back into a numb limb, but it is too much, too much as the world sharpens around him and now he can taste the being that seems somehow entwined with him and he jerks away involuntarily, both physically and not.
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The seeming stillness of the empty alley is neither stillness nor emptiness at all. Rashad's rasping breaths are the only sound over the dulled hubbub of the city around them, but he does not long believe himself to be alone, not when he can feel -- when Daniel is -- there, but not in a way that correlates to any of his physical senses, not when he can feel the other being reaching in and -- and --
The moment when something changes is unmarked by any external sign beyond the strained cry it draws from him. It is shocking and painful but right, like blood rushing back into a numb limb, but it is too much, too much as the world sharpens around him and now he can taste the being that seems somehow entwined with him and he jerks away involuntarily, both physically and not.