[ It's different from walking through flame in the Gray Space. There'd be no smell, no wind kicked up, no blinding light. The shield is somehow keeping them from suffocating in what little smoke-filled air hasn't been consumed by the blaze.
If the shield were to suddenly fail at once, he doubts he can actually make it to the Gray Space before his body caught fire.
(it would be faster than how his mother burned, the tinder at her feet catching first - he can't remember her face except within flame, her mouth open and no sound coming out - )
He pulls the spare shield from his pocket, a blank expression across his features. ]
cw: memory of violent death via burning
If the shield were to suddenly fail at once, he doubts he can actually make it to the Gray Space before his body caught fire.
(it would be faster than how his mother burned, the tinder at her feet catching first - he can't remember her face except within flame, her mouth open and no sound coming out - )
He pulls the spare shield from his pocket, a blank expression across his features. ]