[It feels surreal, like he's in some sort of horror movie, and the Visitor makes various attempts to reach him, and all he can really do is huddle in the furthest corner and hope that nothing it does will be successful. If they are, he has the shield as a last resort, but it'd only buy him a few more second anyway.
So, instead, he just watches what the Visitor tries to do, somewhere between frozen in terror and just numbly calm; the only real move he makes is to cover his head when he feels the Visitor slam into the building, just in case any additional rubble falls, but it's just a showering of dust.
The screech is not welcome, because it's horrifying, but that it signals the Visitor's departure is an incredible relief. Or it would've been, anyway, if Lance were really capable of feeling such a thing at the moment, but he doesn't even truly believe it at first.
But as time passes--how much time? He isn't sure--and the Visitor doesn't return, he becomes more and more aware of what just happened and what his current situation is; his injuries are beginning to hurt again, he realizes how weak he feels, and he knows he needs to do something other than just hide in this already half-collapsed building.
Still, he can't bring himself to move for another few minutes, listening carefully to try to determine if the Visitor really is gone. Finally, he decides it is, and fights the returning creep of paranoia in order to send Kyna an emergency message.
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So, instead, he just watches what the Visitor tries to do, somewhere between frozen in terror and just numbly calm; the only real move he makes is to cover his head when he feels the Visitor slam into the building, just in case any additional rubble falls, but it's just a showering of dust.
The screech is not welcome, because it's horrifying, but that it signals the Visitor's departure is an incredible relief. Or it would've been, anyway, if Lance were really capable of feeling such a thing at the moment, but he doesn't even truly believe it at first.
But as time passes--how much time? He isn't sure--and the Visitor doesn't return, he becomes more and more aware of what just happened and what his current situation is; his injuries are beginning to hurt again, he realizes how weak he feels, and he knows he needs to do something other than just hide in this already half-collapsed building.
Still, he can't bring himself to move for another few minutes, listening carefully to try to determine if the Visitor really is gone. Finally, he decides it is, and fights the returning creep of paranoia in order to send Kyna an emergency message.
Now he just has to wait.]