Johnny lets Seth guide him, slumped and frustrated with himself for having failed. He tries to tell himself it's okay, it doesn't matter, as long as one of them can keep it together at a time, they'll be fine.
Moving through a wall is a pretty bizarre experience, unsurprisingly, but it's painless and it's over quick enough. He staggers through and is about to offer thanks, but he's cut short by the discovery that the setting has changed. They're not at all where they were.
Everything is dark, almost completely lightless, low ceilinged and untextured. Not wood, or earth, or stone, or metal beneath their feet - soft but solid, almost like ash. The space is broad and expansive, from what he can make out, a network of walls and no doors, just vast, labyrinthine space.
It's the house.
"Oh no," he says quietly, wanting to sink into the earth. "No, no, no."
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Moving through a wall is a pretty bizarre experience, unsurprisingly, but it's painless and it's over quick enough. He staggers through and is about to offer thanks, but he's cut short by the discovery that the setting has changed. They're not at all where they were.
Everything is dark, almost completely lightless, low ceilinged and untextured. Not wood, or earth, or stone, or metal beneath their feet - soft but solid, almost like ash. The space is broad and expansive, from what he can make out, a network of walls and no doors, just vast, labyrinthine space.
It's the house.
"Oh no," he says quietly, wanting to sink into the earth. "No, no, no."