The rebuttal comes like a push. It's followed by a slow splintering of their minds; the connection starts breaking up and turns to static a breath before Seth pushes Richie away. The physical is an afterthought. It's only necessary because Seth doesn't know how to expel Richie from his head without severing the physical contact. Seth's already noted it as a weakness and vowed to work on it even as he takes a few deep breaths, shakes his head hard like the mental link is water he could get out of his ears. ]
Don't do that, [ Seth says, without any need to elaborate further on what he means. He doesn't want Richie poking his mind out into the vast, open stretch beyond the pair of them and he doesn't want to feel Richie in his head (he does, but it's complicated. it's always complicated.) ] Fuck.
[ For a moment how visibly shaken Seth is by what he'd felt is obvious before he grits his teeth, drags a hand down his face and reasserts some self-control in the midst of all this weirdness. ]
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The rebuttal comes like a push. It's followed by a slow splintering of their minds; the connection starts breaking up and turns to static a breath before Seth pushes Richie away. The physical is an afterthought. It's only necessary because Seth doesn't know how to expel Richie from his head without severing the physical contact. Seth's already noted it as a weakness and vowed to work on it even as he takes a few deep breaths, shakes his head hard like the mental link is water he could get out of his ears. ]
Don't do that, [ Seth says, without any need to elaborate further on what he means. He doesn't want Richie poking his mind out into the vast, open stretch beyond the pair of them and he doesn't want to feel Richie in his head (he does, but it's complicated. it's always complicated.) ] Fuck.
[ For a moment how visibly shaken Seth is by what he'd felt is obvious before he grits his teeth, drags a hand down his face and reasserts some self-control in the midst of all this weirdness. ]