"oh hey," she says raising her head, "that's pretty cool of you." Then drops her head back down onto her hands.

" - That includes you. Don't you wanna get out of here? And we gotta hurry - "

"oh sure, thanks." She puts one hand and then the other under her and lifts herself, head and sodden leaves drooping, onto her haunches. She lifts her head long enough to say, "where ’we go?"

"Through there," she says, forming another portal.

"hey cool all right," she says, and plods through.

And their guide can lead them to another straggler, and another, until their time estimate from Leomon has run down to just a couple minutes.

They go as fast as they can - which is really fast, with Nausicaa riding Boogey.

"Boogey, can you - just drop everything moving in a portal?" Nausicaa asks, worried. "But don't risk yourself!"

"I can try." And he bows to let Nausicaa slide off his fur, and then - 

He's not really every shadow under every bed, but if he twists his mind correctly...

He is very, very fast.

Then in addition to their manual rescues, they can transport an indeterminate number of other creatures. Most won't know what's going on, or how to behave, or whether they've been deleted after all and this is what follows - but they'll be safe from the X-Program.

And then the forest starts to... ripple. Eyes open in the trees, in the cliffs, in the ground.

Most of them close after a few seconds, but the ones facing Boogey's skull remain open.

He rushes back to Nausicaa.

New eyes open in his path, some at odd angles to the previous ones.

He'll get to Nausicaa very quickly, curling around her and hissing at the eyes.

She screams - half in fear, half in anger.

The eyes do nothing further but watch the small group. After a minute or so, they close, and the forest is as it was - trees, rain, Nausicaa, Boogey, and their guide.

That is very intensely creepy!

Kurama still is making a very angry noise after the eyes go away.

The rain continues to run in rivulets through the trees to the moist earth below. Thunder rumbles gently in the distance. The purple creature rests on the ground, catching its breath. The only other motion in the forest is the two travelers.

His fur gradually unruffles.

"Are you okay?" she calls to their friend.

"Okay!," it says, getting back to its feet. "Wow."

"Where do we go now?"

"Friends? Railway?"

"...Guess we should get the people in the dream-realm, yeah."

She has Boogey make a portal - she technically can but it's hard when she's this anxious - and steps through, looking around for people.

The sky is a dark off-red, the sand glittering, a mixture of colors like rainbow static. 

This area is flat, featureless, though rocky crags rise in the distance. There aren't any dream-bubbles, not here.