by Reach » Sat Nov 24, 2018 9:10 pm
When Will comes to again he finds himself once again encased in darkness, but something about it feels different. He's smaller, but not in the shrunken sense. There's simply not that much of him left it feels like. No arms, no legs, no nothing. Not even eyes or ears, but as someone who can retain his senses as an inanimate object his cells slowly compensate for that. Not that there is much to see, he's a lump of grey matter encased in one of Manikin's containers, but he can make out some sounds from outside. Namely a voice.
"...not quite certain I follow. What was the point of reducing him down to this?" he can hear Reach talking nearby. There's a pause as he seems to receive some kind of non-vocal answer from Manikin. Then he finds himself being picked up and a strange sensation washes over him. Suddenly he's aware of another piece of himself a couple feet away as if he was touching it, controlling it's shifting like his more sassy counterpart had done to him previously when she'd turned him into a tree. But he's just a witness to it, it's Reach's power forming the connection and he's the one controlling it. The lump unfurls like a snake, dragging some kind of weight with it as Will tries to make sense of the impressions he's picking up from it. It's surrounded by something warm, moving and there's a faint rhythmic thudding. A heartbeat. The bit of clay isn't a snake, it's taken the place of somebody's spine and it's forcing the body to contort.
"Oh ho ho. You've outdone yourself this time, Manikin."
And then Reach's power flares and with sudden dread Will can sense where all the rest of him went. Dozens of little pieces in a myriad of shapes and forms, scattered throughout the room, all embedded - no, implanted - in people. All responding to Reach extending and abusing Will's shifting...