[Soft, it is - enough that he doesn't necessarily expect it to be any sort of someone or even necessarily anything threatening until he turns around.
And when he does, it's --
He takes a moment to gape at what he's bumped into - god, it's some kind of bright outright storybook monster - and he tells himself feverishly no, this isn't happening, this isn't happening about as aimlessly as it gets - no reassurance or further panic meant. It just is. This is can't possibly be happening...
He manages to weakly, roughly wheeze out a:]
-- Who are you....
[And why are you here? Why is any, any at all, of this here...]
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And when he does, it's --
He takes a moment to gape at what he's bumped into - god, it's some kind of bright outright storybook monster - and he tells himself feverishly no, this isn't happening, this isn't happening about as aimlessly as it gets - no reassurance or further panic meant. It just is. This is can't possibly be happening...
He manages to weakly, roughly wheeze out a:]
-- Who are you....
[And why are you here? Why is any, any at all, of this here...]