For a time, this was all he could percieve. At first, the man couldn't quite recall how it was that he came to be here, in this space between spheres, this un-place, full of suffocating noise and blinding light. Then, screaming in that forever sort of way that men do when hurtling through unreality, the memories began seeping back into his consciousness like ale between the floorboards, or blood.
There was one eye, not two.
The colors shrieked up around him, a surge of thunder that quaked in the marrow of bones he couldn't quite remember having. He would have kept screaming, had there been air. He felt a fullness in the space between his arms, and a pressure about his back that was a bit too insistently painful to be an overburdened pack.
There was a woman. Barely there, in the tumbling chaos that had enveloped them, but there all the same. He would have felt comfort if he could think. Jerrad clung to her, perhaps desperately. She'd struck him more than once, and the bruises had ached for days. It was difficult to discern whether she was screaming as he was, terrified and bewildered by the howling impossibility around them.
It was difficult to say whether or not he cared. The only certainty there was in his mind was that he would never let her go. His life might well depend on it.