The soldier that was watching her called out from a distance behind her, the ever familiar <Walk!> that was a threat and an order at the same time.
Sick with fear, Hana looked around, searching for something that could tell her where to go, how to move.
You need to look at the numbers under the tiles and try to logic out where the mines are, so you can figure out where they aren’t.
In that moment, she knew she wasn’t going to die right away. She couldn’t walk any further, it was physically impossible, as though her feet were as rooted to the ground as the trees were.
Physically impossible because she’s paralyzed by fear, or because her power is restricting her?
They would make her watch as they tortured one of the other children to death. Then they would start on the next, maybe Hana herself, until they had another child willing to act as decoy and clear the traps from their way in the simplest, most dangerous manner possible.
Gotta say, if the power physically prevents her from taking a course of action that leads to her death, that’s a pretty bad position for anyone who would be inclined to sacrifice themself for someone else.
I mean, it’s one thing to prevent the user of the power from doing something dumb, but I feel like it shouldn’t restrict their choice entirely in that kind of situation.
<Wal-
She saw something vast.
It wasn’t big in the sense that the trees or even the mountains were big. It was big in the way that transcended what she could even see or feel.
Hm.
So, uh. Are we getting a preview for what Endbringers are like here?
It was like seeing something bigger than the whole wide planet, except more – this thing that was too large to comprehend to start with, it extended.
I mean this certainly does sound rather Lovecraftian. Or Labyrinth-ian, but I don’t see any reason for her to be here.
She didn’t have a better word to describe what she was perceiving. It was as though there were mirror images of it, but each image existed in the same place, some moving differently, and sometimes, very rarely, one image came in contact with with something that the others didn’t.
I’d ask if the others were seeing this too, but given the cut-off “wal–”, I have a feeling they do.
Anyway, I have to give it to Wildbow: This is a pretty good description for something incomprehensible.
Each of the images was as real and concrete as the others. And this made it big in a way that she couldn’t describe if she were a hundred year old scholar or philosopher with access to the best libraries in the world.
It kind of sounds like it’s bigger than the planet, and you can tell it is by looking at it, but it doesn’t look bigger than the planet because all of that bigness is in the same space. Which does not quite mean it’s compact and therefore smaller.
Krixwell Liveblogs 