He scrambles backwards wildly for an instant before it belatedly strikes him that she - she? yes, she - has released him. He has only a few seconds of startled realization to accept this new person before the entire ground tremors.

"Giant?" For fuck's sake. What sort of simulated environment is this? The Rift's machinations, obtrusively fucking with his mind and piling a flat defiance of physics on top of it? Pure fucking typical.

Rush wrenches himself upright and nearly overbalances over the - ledge with the sheer fucking drop. One arm flies out wildly to steady himself, only semi-successfully. Fuck. No. No. He's not dying like that.