09-03-2020, 01:44 AM
Everything seemed to happen in a blur. First, Sage had given him that goofy grin – the one that still managed to make him melt – and then he was shoving Aiden to the ground with his body. Were this a different time and place, he would have rolled the younger man around and… Well, this wasn’t a different time – Jaxen was throwing fireballs at Ethelinda before taking off down one of the passages. Sage hoisted Aiden to his feet and pulled him after the reckless trickster. As they passed through the doorway, Aiden’s skin turned to goosebumps as laughter erupted from Ethelinda. Her laugh sounded… off.
“Babe,” Aiden managed to pant out as they jogged into a long corridor, “Please tell me you heard what Jaxen said. He’s been here before, wherever this is. Who the fuck is Sora?”
Aiden had a sinking feeling that he would be dropping the ‘F-bomb’ a lot until they found their way out. This had to be some extraplanar realm – something straight out of Dungeons and Dragons or Final Fantasy XXIV. What else could it be? The sky on Earth just didn’t look like it did here; and Aiden was pretty sure this was not some dream. There were no drugs that caused this deep of a hallucination, either. Maybe DMT, but you had to inject that if you wanted anything more than visual stimulation. There was no possible way Jaxen could have secretly injected them. And even if he had, what would his goals be? No. This was most definitely some location that did not reside on the planet Earth.
Fuck. Were they transported to another planet entirely? It had to be that. Some kind of fucked up shit that only happened in the stories. Oh, the Ascendancy would shit bricks if he knew about this… But then again, who was Aiden to say that he didn’t?
Aiden shivered visibly and clutched Sage’s hand tighter. The corridor stretched on into utter darkness. They could only see a faint glimmer of light ahead, which had to be Jaxen. Aiden opened himself to the Power and let the torrent of raging Light permeate every ounce of his being. Two orbs of light sprung to life; Aiden tied the weave off and set one to follow himself and another to follow Sage. After that was done, he wove Fire and manifested a fireball in his hand. The blazing light hovered above his outstretched free-hand, ready to fly at anything that might threaten his boyfriend or himself.
They would find a way out, if only Jaxen would calm down and wait for them.
“Babe,” Aiden managed to pant out as they jogged into a long corridor, “Please tell me you heard what Jaxen said. He’s been here before, wherever this is. Who the fuck is Sora?”
Aiden had a sinking feeling that he would be dropping the ‘F-bomb’ a lot until they found their way out. This had to be some extraplanar realm – something straight out of Dungeons and Dragons or Final Fantasy XXIV. What else could it be? The sky on Earth just didn’t look like it did here; and Aiden was pretty sure this was not some dream. There were no drugs that caused this deep of a hallucination, either. Maybe DMT, but you had to inject that if you wanted anything more than visual stimulation. There was no possible way Jaxen could have secretly injected them. And even if he had, what would his goals be? No. This was most definitely some location that did not reside on the planet Earth.
Fuck. Were they transported to another planet entirely? It had to be that. Some kind of fucked up shit that only happened in the stories. Oh, the Ascendancy would shit bricks if he knew about this… But then again, who was Aiden to say that he didn’t?
Aiden shivered visibly and clutched Sage’s hand tighter. The corridor stretched on into utter darkness. They could only see a faint glimmer of light ahead, which had to be Jaxen. Aiden opened himself to the Power and let the torrent of raging Light permeate every ounce of his being. Two orbs of light sprung to life; Aiden tied the weave off and set one to follow himself and another to follow Sage. After that was done, he wove Fire and manifested a fireball in his hand. The blazing light hovered above his outstretched free-hand, ready to fly at anything that might threaten his boyfriend or himself.
They would find a way out, if only Jaxen would calm down and wait for them.
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