[The problem with coming back to reality is that you don't yet know you left it. This isn't the first time Richard's experienced it. The disconnect. The people around him who did not see what he saw. It's the unweaving of a tapestry in order to make it fit a new pattern, the unweaving of a mind to put it back on the right frequency. Questioning, unpicking, examining, and all the while being questioned, picked apart, examined.
The press of Dick and Wysteria's voices feels the same, enough that a learnt response almost kicks in, an I'm fine, no I don't want to talk about it, just leave it. But he remembers where he is. He remembers.]
Dizzy. [He answers, finally, slowly.] I saw...
[He trails off, frowning. Remembering what he saw. Knowing what he saw, and yet the words for it seem out of reach, at the tip of his tongue, the tips of his fingers.
He looks back down to his hand, still hovering over the cut on his arm. Lets it drop now. But that only clears the view to where the cut now seems to be opening, skin pushing aside as a multitude of white globules pop up in the flesh beneath, growing in size, in number.
One rolls, and there is revealed an iris, a pupil. Looking between all three of them, as if searching.]
cw: body horror, eyes
The press of Dick and Wysteria's voices feels the same, enough that a learnt response almost kicks in, an I'm fine, no I don't want to talk about it, just leave it. But he remembers where he is. He remembers.]
Dizzy. [He answers, finally, slowly.] I saw...
[He trails off, frowning. Remembering what he saw. Knowing what he saw, and yet the words for it seem out of reach, at the tip of his tongue, the tips of his fingers.
He looks back down to his hand, still hovering over the cut on his arm. Lets it drop now. But that only clears the view to where the cut now seems to be opening, skin pushing aside as a multitude of white globules pop up in the flesh beneath, growing in size, in number.
One rolls, and there is revealed an iris, a pupil. Looking between all three of them, as if searching.]