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[center][color=9e0b0f][i][b]GET OUT.[/b][/i][/color][/center]

[indent]The warning shook through Kousuke's very soul. Raging and rattling like an animal in a cage, sending out reverberations that screamed in a silent cacophony through every fiber of their being. Pulling back the cords with the fall of the beast, Kousuke brought his hands up to his ears, as though it would help with the internal drone. It wasn't noise, per se, not [i]physically[/i]. It held no air, only [i]feeling[/i]. A bright, hot burning that scorched his heart, his lungs, his chest. It burned in his throat and his mouth. A formless fire spreading from the center of his being all the way to the furthest reaches and even beyond. The heat surrounded him. Surrounded the girl. It filled the space like an oven, and he and the lot of these others were being cooked alive.

Something was wrong. Something was very wrong. Red eyes flashed open as tight wooden fists clawed at delicate velveteen ears. Kousuke caught sight of the shards in the air. How they glistened and refracted as they slowly began to draw into one another. He glanced at the broken creature on the ground, destroyed only by the combined efforts of three...four individuals? The new form was strange. Haunting. Intimidating for sure, but something about the [i]heat[/i] surrounding the creature made of hands and eyes and wings and wax seemed less of a threat. Less of a threat to them, that was. That same heat surrounded Kousuke themself and the girl. It even surrounded that ice beast, strangely enough. They all shared it, and from that Kousuke deduced that they all had a connection in some way or form. They were four, brought together for one reason or another. To fight that thing? Surely there was more to it than that, but Kousuke couldn't bring himself to ponder on it for long. The growing heat in the area was becoming suffocating. The puppet which had been cut loose from its strings was done playing the hero. They wanted out. They wanted to escape this horrid reality and get to some place where things made [i]sense[/i].[/indent]

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[indent]The air shifted, and a frost took hold. What had once been broiling heat was now absolute zero temperatures and Kousuke found himself choking on the sudden change in atmosphere. He gasped, dropping to his knee in an instant and quickly catching himself on the glass-scattered ground. The shards cutting at the linden surface of their jointed hands stung more than they felt it should have, but the puppet could hardly think about it through the chaos taking hold in their mind as they coughed and hacked at the pressure around them. The sudden ice filling their lungs. The feeling of cold vapor rushing down their throat. A dagger in their heart as the chill spread through their veins like liquid nitrogen. It was too much. Too cold. Too heavy. Too thick. Fear was clawing at the corners of his mind, stripping away at the adrenaline that had kept him in the moment just seconds earlier. Fight was quickly becoming flight as the weight of everything finally settled in. As that warning continued to rumble and roar deep within him.[/indent]

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[indent]Something was definitely wrong. Something was coming, something [i]worse[/i]. Kousuke seethed at the pain. The pain from the shards embedded in his hands. The pain from the freezing air filtering through his lungs which simultaneously burned from the coughing still wracking his body. The pain from the deafening, soundless alarm blaring inside him. Body shaking, Kousuke fought to get his voice, rasping out all that he could for the others to hear.

[color=f7976a][sub]"Get out...g-...g-get ou-out...w-w-we...we h-have to..."[/sub][/color][/indent]