For a second Hide's senses overwhelmed him, suddenly all of them, for some weird reason, became hyperactive and then went back to normal just as fast.
His first breath arrived as a gasp — not from pain, or physical exertion, but from the weird change that happened to his body that he couldn't recall.
The cold hit him at the same moment, a deep penetrating cold that was not the cold of weather but the cold of a place that had never been warm, settling over him immediately and completely as if he had walked out of a closed room, only to be met with a snow storm.
He was outside, or maybe inside. Whatever it was... all he knew was that he now stood beyond the door.
Fuu was just besides him, still in shock of what happened and they both stood at the beginning of a courtyard that extended far enough ahead of him that its far edge was not clearly visible.
