[ As far as Sumina can tell, there's no danger to be found here at all, unaware as she is as to what Domain Expansion means or even is... She's likely to have frozen up entirely if she'd known, but as it is, she needs this moment to not be on her feet, to catch her breath, to just talk to Satoru without his damned shadow interjecting.
She is pliable in his hand as he inspects her neck; blessedly, the contact had been all too brief to cause anything worse than perhaps some bruising, but more than anything, as he keeps his grasp on her hand and on her face, Gojo would find—
Sumina is shaking, from the unsteadiness of her hands and legs and shoulders to the quivering in each expelled breath.
She has said it so many times before, hasn't she? She doesn't have an adventurous bone in her body. Rarely has she ever faced real danger, much less danger like this, danger that feels mind-boggling and impossible even given all that is made possible by her very magical upbringing and surroundings.
Which, by the way, includes somewhat-regular jaunts to the Astral Plane, a starry sea not too unlike where they are now... And as such, despite its otherworldliness, Sumina still thinks of what just transpired, above all. All she really needs to know about this place for the moment is that the shadow isn't in here with them, and that Satoru is back. ]
Good, [ she pants, ] I'm glad...
[ She shuts her eyes tightly. It's going to be okay now, right...? ]
What happened back there, Satoru? Your- your shadow...
[ It wasn't quite like the others she had encountered. It almost seemed an entirely different person its own... ]
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She is pliable in his hand as he inspects her neck; blessedly, the contact had been all too brief to cause anything worse than perhaps some bruising, but more than anything, as he keeps his grasp on her hand and on her face, Gojo would find—
Sumina is shaking, from the unsteadiness of her hands and legs and shoulders to the quivering in each expelled breath.
She has said it so many times before, hasn't she? She doesn't have an adventurous bone in her body. Rarely has she ever faced real danger, much less danger like this, danger that feels mind-boggling and impossible even given all that is made possible by her very magical upbringing and surroundings.
Which, by the way, includes somewhat-regular jaunts to the Astral Plane, a starry sea not too unlike where they are now... And as such, despite its otherworldliness, Sumina still thinks of what just transpired, above all. All she really needs to know about this place for the moment is that the shadow isn't in here with them, and that Satoru is back. ]
Good, [ she pants, ] I'm glad...
[ She shuts her eyes tightly. It's going to be okay now, right...? ]
What happened back there, Satoru? Your- your shadow...
[ It wasn't quite like the others she had encountered. It almost seemed an entirely different person its own... ]