Floating in the ether, Ariett shivered. She no longer deluded herself with the concept of reality—she was either dead, drugged, or dreaming, and none of those brought her much comfort after all that she'd seen.

The humming bore into her, and she felt irrationally drawn to it; whether physically or psychologically she could not tell. Instead, she tried to focus on the woman before her, yet another creature brought either to guide them or lead them astray, likely no more real than the ground upon which they'd previously stood. Nevertheless, she willed herself to float towards the woman. "What good would killing us do you now? We have no way of leaving this place, and nowhere left to go even if we could."