[It didn't show on the shadow's maybe-features, but the sharpness about it faded into relief when Leslie stood, speaking coherently. Kaede had a dignified answer ready when the little Witch stumbled and fell--into the mass of shadows Kaede was right now.
Something caught Leslie, something that felt like cool hands. Something that was also a bit...perturbed right now.]
Uh--
[In all this time, Kaede had never had someone go into her shadow form yet. As incorporeal as it sometimes was, it should have easily been possible without harm befalling either of them, but Kaede was terrible at theory. It felt...strange, like some phantom stitch in her side, or an obstacle she had to contort her body in strange shapes to get away from. Like a very strange tickle her nerves had no idea how to interpret.]
It's--dead now.
[The Chimera's voice sounded from all around Leslie this time, instead of from a single direction. And it's quite dark in there, though it felt no different than the cool air elsewhere. If it wasn't so dark and Kaede wasn't talking, it could have been anywhere the lights weren't on.]
Are you...okay?
[Should she move? What if she stepped on Leslie? Though--she didn't have any feet right now, that wasn't a problem.]
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Something caught Leslie, something that felt like cool hands. Something that was also a bit...perturbed right now.]
Uh--
[In all this time, Kaede had never had someone go into her shadow form yet. As incorporeal as it sometimes was, it should have easily been possible without harm befalling either of them, but Kaede was terrible at theory. It felt...strange, like some phantom stitch in her side, or an obstacle she had to contort her body in strange shapes to get away from. Like a very strange tickle her nerves had no idea how to interpret.]
It's--dead now.
[The Chimera's voice sounded from all around Leslie this time, instead of from a single direction. And it's quite dark in there, though it felt no different than the cool air elsewhere. If it wasn't so dark and Kaede wasn't talking, it could have been anywhere the lights weren't on.]
Are you...okay?
[Should she move? What if she stepped on Leslie? Though--she didn't have any feet right now, that wasn't a problem.]