No. Darkness. No. It isn't time for this, this place is bright, and new, and not for nightmares.

[The words are whispered, and her eyes shine when they look back up at him, though she flinches at the sight of him.

Any hum of happiness the sugar had left in her is long burnt away.]

So dark it blots out the sky, how do you even breathe without wheezing, you fathomless void? Too much, too much, it's too much...

[She cringes, hiding her face in her hands.]