"It's too hot here, I'm going to accelerate through the building top speed and if that doesn't cut it it doesn't cut it."

("—what do you mean if it doesn't—")

Jaeha can hear—and feel—an explosion, somewhere, not very close but definitely too close.

("—do what you need to to survive. Please. Please survive. Be careful. I love you.")

"Ow - can't breathe -"

("Haru-ya, talk to me, or, no, don't, save your breath, just—") Fuck does he have access to—what's Haru feeling, is he, is he going to be okay, please, please say he's going to be okay, please, please please please please—

Backlashed to hell.

Coughing.

Burning.

Nononononono not that no ("Haru Haru Haru please Haru please please don't Haru please—") no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no

("Haru? Haru, where are you? Haru? Please? Haru-ya? Haru-ya, please?")

You can't escape, little Jaeha. You'll never escape. Not. Ever.

Burning. Choking. Not moving any more. Lonely, lonely, all alone - and gone.

Wh. What.

N-no. No. His, his range, it's. He's running but he's, there's, he hasn't run that far, his range should, should get him, should, he should still be able to feel Haru. Haru is still close. Still close enough. Haru can, he can, he—

BOOM

He doesn't care. That doesn't matter. It doesn't, doesn't, it—

No. It can't be real. It, it just can't. There's, he, he's still running, because Haru would've wanted—Haru does want him to live, Haru wouldn't—doesn't want him to die, so he shouldn't, shouldn't stay and wait for the fire to reach him, but, but what's, what's the, what, his, he's, it's meant to be, it's, it's meant to be hot not cold but he feels cold? he feels numb he feels, his legs are, it's, it's heavy, he's heavy, what's, what's he doing, he's running, why is he running? to live, to survive, because Haru, he, but Haru, he can't, he tripped on something, but there wasn't anything on the floor, how could there be, but then how is he on the floor, and what, he's, he needs to get up, needs to, needs t

"Always negatively, huh, you're telling me a dungeon named Nightmare doesn't sometimes surprise you with sunshine and roses?"

"Jaeha? All quiet on the western front over there?"

"Am I getting lazy with the subvocalizing, I can switch to talking out loud if that's easier at this distance or something? Jaeha?"

...

"JAEHA," Haru hollers, switching to a run instead of flying, waiting for backlash to tell him if anyone other than Jaeha's trying to listen, or for Jaeha to get a bead on him and say something, anything. "JAEHA WHAT'S GOING ON -"

Suddenly and quite without warning the building starts expanding in all directions, the incomplete rooms getting completed and then growing walls, ceilings, new floors, with the fire following soon after.

Well, nobody was listening, which is depressing as shit but he was right next to his partner throughout this dungeon and they took a guiding break not long ago. He's got leeway. He arcs forward, top speed around the building.