[It's terrifying. Kyna barely registers that he's literally shielding her with own body, although that's the main thing that will stick in her head later.
She hunches down, arm wrapping over his as she grips his hand. She doesn't even think about the fact that her bare skin on his will give him a front row seat to her desperate attempt to wrestle down her panic. Monsters and demons and attempted possessions, she can deal with. This is utterly, inescapably out of her control, and this thin metal and pressboard desk feels like a complete joke.
Very rapidly, the quake starts to shake apart everything around them. An expensive looking microscope crashes down a few feet away, cracking the cheap tile, and Kyna flinches.]
We can't stay here!
[Can they? She has no idea. She just knows she has to half yell to be heard over the rumbling and shattering, and she's suddenly very aware of the possibility of the two of them being buried alive.]
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She hunches down, arm wrapping over his as she grips his hand. She doesn't even think about the fact that her bare skin on his will give him a front row seat to her desperate attempt to wrestle down her panic. Monsters and demons and attempted possessions, she can deal with. This is utterly, inescapably out of her control, and this thin metal and pressboard desk feels like a complete joke.
Very rapidly, the quake starts to shake apart everything around them. An expensive looking microscope crashes down a few feet away, cracking the cheap tile, and Kyna flinches.]
We can't stay here!
[Can they? She has no idea. She just knows she has to half yell to be heard over the rumbling and shattering, and she's suddenly very aware of the possibility of the two of them being buried alive.]