Fic snippet
The first sensation was blindness. His eyes were closed, though the result was not familiar darkness. He could see. Before him was a blur of nothingness... a nothing that was everything, overwhelming his mind and defying any attempts to make sense of the images. So he stopped trying. By now he should know better.
Here we go again.
Snow. Snow everywhere. He didn't need to see it to feel it. The biting cold surrounded him, seemed to move through him. He tried to move, to warm himself, but everything was sluggish, every thought seemed to take forever. No... his body would not obey his commands, and he was left to be flung about in a sea of chaos.
Don't panic. It's only a second.
He was freezing, the blood crystallizing in his veins. Shattering. Reflexively he tried to grasp for a way out, a shelter. But everything was shattering, the snow and the cold and himself and most assuredly his composure... he might've cried out if he had a throat left to scream with, but he didn't and so he was silent.
Keep it together. Keep it together!
A blur of emerald now, though he still couldn't see it; he felt the green just as he had felt everything else. It was surging into the gaping hole where reality had been moments ago. Driving the ice away. Washing over him, and he could feel the shattered fragments of himself being drawn back together.
People aren't meant to...
Warmth. A gentle wind. The reality that had just torn itself to pieces was putting itself back together, with the same agonizing slowness. A roaring in his ears; the world was reclaiming itself, attacking him, forcing him out. The living didn't belong in this twilight realm, the barrier which held worlds apart. He fell...
People aren't made for this sort of thing!
The ground hit him.