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Percy was drug forwards again though this time he didn't resist. He felt his body go numb, his emotions becoming too much. Feeling the need to cry without any tears breaking through. Like a bottle of overly fizzy pop with nowhere to go. Waiting to be opened, waiting to explode into a messy spill of wasted potential. The sand became harder to see while the creepy version of his sister became more solid. She looked so real as she smiled at him. His younger counterpart reaching out at him, smiling as each of his teeth fell out and rotted away. His flesh melting away, his bones cracking, and all while keeping that familiar devastating smile. Percy watched as the hallucinations brain turned to a glowly mush and melted into a small ring before vanishing completely.
He looked to the hand being carried off by Gale. It glowed, blinking as they ran. Twice by the hallway they skipped, once on the one they went down. "It's a code! Follow the blinking!" His words broke out through his silence like a turtle breaking out of his shell. Terrified, but required. Shaky and direct. Becoming more clear with each word. "Blink twice for yes, it's a code!"
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Gale Glanced back at Percy as they ran. A part of her was ready to snap at him to be quite but she stilled her trembling tongue and glanced down at the ring. Watching it blink for a moment she came to an abrupt stop. Her silence was only for a moment. "Fine, Then you need to lead." That damn ring, this damn place and those damn noises! "But we've got to move, now!" She could still make out the silhouette of Percy's vision. "Move!" She said stepping around Percy to get between them and the approaching figures and nudging him forward.
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Percy nodded and ran ahead. Time felt so slow to him. Moments felt like weeks passing by, folding into themselves. He followed the light with it's continuous blinking until he find an old metal door. He kicked it down, the door shattering into pieces of glass. He blinked, "I don't think that's supposed to happen!" They didn't have time to wait though. He led Gale down into the shadows where they were met with the empty silence of the darkness. For Percy, everything became worse. All the sounds he once heard were surrounding him. It was so loud that he swore Gale would be able to hear them too, as his head screamed with memories. He even heard Gale's voice, calling him away, but he realized it wasn't real. It wasn't the real Gale. It was an illusion. It was all an illusion.
There was a flash of light as a rift appeared before them. It looked a bit like a vortex, a purple spinning vortex of terror. It called to Percy. It wanted him to touch it. As he reached out towards it his ring blinked along with the direction of the spinning. That's all there was in the darkness. Just a glowing ring and a time vortex. When he reached at it, he noticed it becoming more enclosed so that it appeared more of a slash. A simple beam of light. He stepped back and looked in the direction he assumed Gale would be in. "This is probably more of a 'you' department then me. What's happening? Is this like.. a time paradox? Maybe we shouldn't be here?"
