The House of Teeth (Con't)

[Katrielle Layton]

Mei raced as fast as she could out of the bedroom, the door having wedged itself into the wall and forcing the climatologist to squeeze through. She stumbled into the hallway, ducking under a group of unidentifiable spindly objects that snaked their way through the walls and floor as if they didn't exist. The wallpaper had begun to peel, revealing fresh, red insides. Without taking a moment to examine the increasing amount of oddities, she thundered her way down the stairs whilst accompanied by sickening crunching noises. The house shuddered with each step. Glancing down, the Overwatch member noticed that the stairs had turned into a stark, white substance much like bone.

As soon as she hit the floor, she hurried over to the kitchen. She stopped just in time to avoid running into a fleshy tube, approximately the width of a human, endlessly pumping whatever lifeforce this house ran off of and curling up and around the wall and into the ceiling. Mei estimated that this foreign object connected this room to the master bedroom.

Turning around, she expected to see the kitchen table, but that wasn't the case. Instead, the table as well as its chairs were floating several feet up in the air, absolutely still and with just enough headroom so that a person could sit in the chair without hitting the ceiling. Speaking of which, Yuuka was currently in said chair, apparently asleep.

"Yuuka!" Mei called out, hopping and waving and in general trying to get the Youkai's attention.

It took her a moment, but the green-haired woman woke up. She turned to stare down at the human. "What are you doing down there?"

"What are you doing up there?"

Yuuka suddenly realized what was going on and hopped down, floating to the ground. She withdrew her parasol and glanced over at the tube in the corner with mild amusement.

"...Is this normal where you come from?" Mei asked, starting to grow nauseous.

"I don't know. It could be."

"Let just find Fury and get out of here, okay?"