"I feel like that's a missed opportunity, then, mate," Rikki replied with a small smile. "Unless he has tentacles, too." She was trying to keep things light because it felt better than letting herself continue to be swallowed by her growing fear in this place.
She would've tried to keep from watching as the tentacles disappeared from sight again, but she couldn't help wondering. The way he was standing didn't really give her much insight, but given the unbuttoning of the shirt, Rikki suspected that those things had burst from his chest or abdomen, or something, so not seeing didn't feel like she was missing too much when her imagination filled her in.
Rikki leaned a little further forward, but she noticed that she hadn't heard the water splashing anywhere. That was...disconcerting. If she couldn't hear it, where had it gone? Was that just so deep that the sound was lost to the distance? If so, then where the hell were they supposed to go from here?
Sighing, Rikki used her power to dry herself again so that she could get her legs back, watching as Ben reached in to wave his hand around. Rikki decided to try it, too, with the hope that she might feel something that he was missing. Why she thought she might was beyond her, because why would she if the water disappeared into some soundless abyss? She shifted onto her knees and placed a hand on the open door, to balance herself before leaning further over.
"Where did the water go? I didn't hear it hit the floor or wall or anything..." she admitted, looking up at him again. "Did you?"
Her attention was on Ben, so she wasn't paying attention to the door she'd been holding onto for balance. It never occurred to her that it might bite her, because it was a door, but all the same, she felt the sensation of sharp fangs cutting into her hand and, out of reflex as she yelped with pain, Rikki let go of the door. ...causing her to lose her balance.
Eyes wide as saucers and a gasp caught in the back of her throat, Rikki reached for Ben to catch herself, but instead, she would up with her fingers slipping straight off her attempt to grab his open shirt and into the darkness she fell, her scream of surprise swallowed up completely as she disappeared from his sight.
Rikki couldn't hear her own scream and the silence was almost deafening with the way her brain tried to fill it in with white noise that didn't exist and she felt like she was falling for actual minutes before her body slammed into a body of bright blue water; a gigantic swimming pool that immediately turned her right back into the mermaid she'd just transitioned out of.
When her head broke the surface of the pool and Rikki took a breath, she looked up and was horrified to see that all she could find was a solid ceiling above her. "What the hell?" she hissed, frowning and lowering herself back beneath the surface, meaning to then swim to the nearest edge and pull herself out.
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She would've tried to keep from watching as the tentacles disappeared from sight again, but she couldn't help wondering. The way he was standing didn't really give her much insight, but given the unbuttoning of the shirt, Rikki suspected that those things had burst from his chest or abdomen, or something, so not seeing didn't feel like she was missing too much when her imagination filled her in.
Rikki leaned a little further forward, but she noticed that she hadn't heard the water splashing anywhere. That was...disconcerting. If she couldn't hear it, where had it gone? Was that just so deep that the sound was lost to the distance? If so, then where the hell were they supposed to go from here?
Sighing, Rikki used her power to dry herself again so that she could get her legs back, watching as Ben reached in to wave his hand around. Rikki decided to try it, too, with the hope that she might feel something that he was missing. Why she thought she might was beyond her, because why would she if the water disappeared into some soundless abyss? She shifted onto her knees and placed a hand on the open door, to balance herself before leaning further over.
"Where did the water go? I didn't hear it hit the floor or wall or anything..." she admitted, looking up at him again. "Did you?"
Her attention was on Ben, so she wasn't paying attention to the door she'd been holding onto for balance. It never occurred to her that it might bite her, because it was a door, but all the same, she felt the sensation of sharp fangs cutting into her hand and, out of reflex as she yelped with pain, Rikki let go of the door. ...causing her to lose her balance.
Eyes wide as saucers and a gasp caught in the back of her throat, Rikki reached for Ben to catch herself, but instead, she would up with her fingers slipping straight off her attempt to grab his open shirt and into the darkness she fell, her scream of surprise swallowed up completely as she disappeared from his sight.
Rikki couldn't hear her own scream and the silence was almost deafening with the way her brain tried to fill it in with white noise that didn't exist and she felt like she was falling for actual minutes before her body slammed into a body of bright blue water; a gigantic swimming pool that immediately turned her right back into the mermaid she'd just transitioned out of.
When her head broke the surface of the pool and Rikki took a breath, she looked up and was horrified to see that all she could find was a solid ceiling above her. "What the hell?" she hissed, frowning and lowering herself back beneath the surface, meaning to then swim to the nearest edge and pull herself out.