@mildterrorofthedeep liked for a starter!
Galekh was less alone than he thought, that was the conclusion he'd eventually come to. As he wandered, fueled by fears he didn’t know how to parse, he spotted silhouettes and figures of people he recognized, though vague they may be, trying to traverse his landscape in ways that didn’t feasibly make sense. It’s like things didn’t line up - people phasing straight through felled columns, scaling walls that weren’t there, opening doors where all that existed was an open, crumbled doorframe. And as Galekh started trying to put two and two together, the gears beginning to turn, he spotted something that stalled his train of thought at the station with complications of fear, body frozen mid step as the sight before him buffered in his mind.
Lumbering static, the size of a trunkbeast with bulk to match, had stepped itself around a nearby building, slamming into its side on unsteady feet and causing the building in question to crumble into a heap, adding to the mess already surrounding Galekh on all sides. And as the fear agent freezing him in place wore off to fight or flight, he luckily chose the latter, rocketing off to the side despite the burning strain in his legs.
One thing Galekh was certain of was that this thing wasn’t good news. But what he wasn’t, was just how fast it would turn out to be.
Galloping after him, slamming into building after building in its pursuit and leaving carnage in its wake, it was like it had a one track mind, trained solely on the indigo before it with eyes he couldn’t see. Eyes he wasn't even sure it had. At that moment, hearing the implosion of the structure it hurled itself into, Galekh realized he couldn’t feasibly run from this thing - he needed to hide. Skidding around a corner sharper than the thing could feasibly manage to imitate, he barreled his way into a nearby structure that still had its roof, shielded from the things supposed eyes and allowing for a moment of rest.
It seems he still wasn’t alone, however - somebody unfamiliar, almost unbothered by the commotion outside, had settled themself into the site, and Galekh had seemingly startled them with his rough intrusion.
“I- Sorry!..”
His voice was staggered, stuttered, breath heaving in an obvious show of the exertion he'd put himself through.
“There’s a- er- a monster outside, I needed to hide.”
