[The way their surroundings suddenly desaturate has Mabel pausing, hesitating -- have they entered a dreamscape, can she help him here? -- just enough that she doesn't actually make it close enough to the illusion to find out that it isn't real. The slap from the tail would have been a surprise anyway, but as it is, Mabel has her feet on the ground one second and is flying off to the side the next, where she crashes unceremoniously into a wall.]
Augh! Hey, hey, what the heck --
[It does hurt this time, but in a weird way. Her shoulder caught the brunt of the hit, and as she tries to push herself to her feet, Mabel finds it doesn't quite want to move as it should. Dazed and breathing heavily, she glances around, looking for the thing that hit her. It's difficult to tell one thing from another in all the gray.]
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[The way their surroundings suddenly desaturate has Mabel pausing, hesitating -- have they entered a dreamscape, can she help him here? -- just enough that she doesn't actually make it close enough to the illusion to find out that it isn't real. The slap from the tail would have been a surprise anyway, but as it is, Mabel has her feet on the ground one second and is flying off to the side the next, where she crashes unceremoniously into a wall.]
Augh! Hey, hey, what the heck --
[It does hurt this time, but in a weird way. Her shoulder caught the brunt of the hit, and as she tries to push herself to her feet, Mabel finds it doesn't quite want to move as it should. Dazed and breathing heavily, she glances around, looking for the thing that hit her. It's difficult to tell one thing from another in all the gray.]