[Thick purple fog rolling in from nowhere kept Chell from knowing properly of the sudden interruption to the chase. It also kept her from concerning herself with the snarling, smashing noises behind her, as time crawled past her.
Already wound tight as she was, the sensation of not being properly in control, of not being able to move as freely or quickly as she wanted, served primarily to spark an intense bout of panicked claustrophobia. Chell could not have cared less what had happened to Emile or the others, all she knew was that she needed to get away.
Slowly, too slowly, while the others were distracted, Chell brought the gun down to point at her feet. The portal North had leaped through vanished behind him as she dropped through the newly made one, spat gracelessly back into the hallway they'd all just left. Disoriented and still crawlingly slow, Chell struggled to distance herself from the fog and the sounds of scuffle behind her.]
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Already wound tight as she was, the sensation of not being properly in control, of not being able to move as freely or quickly as she wanted, served primarily to spark an intense bout of panicked claustrophobia. Chell could not have cared less what had happened to Emile or the others, all she knew was that she needed to get away.
Slowly, too slowly, while the others were distracted, Chell brought the gun down to point at her feet. The portal North had leaped through vanished behind him as she dropped through the newly made one, spat gracelessly back into the hallway they'd all just left. Disoriented and still crawlingly slow, Chell struggled to distance herself from the fog and the sounds of scuffle behind her.]