[Ed, rapidly disappearing down the tunnel, presses his hands together. Fingers dragging along the side of the tunnel, feeling the bump of stone (calcite, silica, some kind of sandstone), he pours energy into it. Wills it to change.
A shelf explodes from the wall, and Ed twists around, darting up it as the monster (don't look at it, don't think about how much it looks like Nina) crashes into stone and howls with rage. He rushes down it, an inelegant tumble of limbs and a face contorted with aggravated terror.]
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[Ed, rapidly disappearing down the tunnel, presses his hands together. Fingers dragging along the side of the tunnel, feeling the bump of stone (calcite, silica, some kind of sandstone), he pours energy into it. Wills it to change.
A shelf explodes from the wall, and Ed twists around, darting up it as the monster (don't look at it, don't think about how much it looks like Nina) crashes into stone and howls with rage. He rushes down it, an inelegant tumble of limbs and a face contorted with aggravated terror.]
It's been ten seconds!
[It's been about three.]