[When Hijikata let the cognitive mages include him in their ritual to wake up the sleep paralysis victims he quickly chose Emet-Selch as someone he thinks he could help, but as soon as he enters his dream he thinks again. This is a picturebook-perfect nightmare. It's like the apocalypse. Despite knowing that it's a dream he coughs as he feels the sting of the smoke in his throat and covers his nose and mouth with his hand.]
Emet-Selch?!
[The stench, the heat, the screams in the distance, the horrifying beasts... is this actually hell? Hijikata's heartbeat picks up as he instinctively goes into fight-or-flight mode, but he tries to ground himself by addressing the other man, assuming him to be Emet-Selch simply because there's no one else nearby. Before he can step towards him, though, there's that deafening crack, as if the earth itself were breaking, and he's pushed - or grabbed?]
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Emet-Selch?!
[The stench, the heat, the screams in the distance, the horrifying beasts... is this actually hell? Hijikata's heartbeat picks up as he instinctively goes into fight-or-flight mode, but he tries to ground himself by addressing the other man, assuming him to be Emet-Selch simply because there's no one else nearby. Before he can step towards him, though, there's that deafening crack, as if the earth itself were breaking, and he's pushed - or grabbed?]