The last of the glitching, corrupted data fizzled out, leaving Nox crumpled on the rocky ground in front of the new, dark doorway. He was completely still.
Serian was terrified, she immediately ran to his side, her mind racing with a hundred different horrible possibilities. She knelt beside him but was afraid to touch him, the memory of that chaotic energy explosion was still too fresh.
"Nox! Can you hear me? Wake up!"
He did not respond, he did not even twitch. His chest was rising and falling, so he was alive, but he was completely out of it.
Mela walked over. She nudged him with the toe of her boot and got no reaction at all.
'Perfect, just perfect. The human breaks his brain opening a door, and now we're stuck with a two-hundred-pound paperweight in the middle of a dungeon. This is his fault.'
