There really is no pause between his fingers brushing her shoulder and Luceti suddenly exploding into a Wonderland on steroids - if this can still be considered Luceti. After his last experiment, he's immediately inclined and desperate to believe they're stuck in another memory, even if that doesn't stop him from reeling back in shock--
And bumping into someone. Which, funny enough, he isn't exactly expecting, seeing as he and Katie were alone two seconds before.] Wha...?
[Between parsing the sight of his friend with cat ears and the voices whispering all around him, shrill and quiet and hushed and explosive, Sanji turns like he's struggling against a tide of sensation. And then he nearly bites his tongue off keeping a scream to himself. That he's frozen in place is the only reason he doesn't jerk forward and try to grab her shoulders - Vivi's shoulders, that look so thin and fragile and malnourished that he's afraid of breaking them, like the rest of her.
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Shit.
There really is no pause between his fingers brushing her shoulder and Luceti suddenly exploding into a Wonderland on steroids - if this can still be considered Luceti. After his last experiment, he's immediately inclined and desperate to believe they're stuck in another memory, even if that doesn't stop him from reeling back in shock--
And bumping into someone. Which, funny enough, he isn't exactly expecting, seeing as he and Katie were alone two seconds before.] Wha...?
[Between parsing the sight of his friend with cat ears and the voices whispering all around him, shrill and quiet and hushed and explosive, Sanji turns like he's struggling against a tide of sensation. And then he nearly bites his tongue off keeping a scream to himself. That he's frozen in place is the only reason he doesn't jerk forward and try to grab her shoulders - Vivi's shoulders, that look so thin and fragile and malnourished that he's afraid of breaking them, like the rest of her.
This isn't real. This can't be real.]
V-Vivi-chan?!