None of this was getting any easier and Dalila was starting to have trouble even pretending that she was not breaking down. It was all of the thoughts and she wished - yes she actually did wish this - that everything would go quiet again like it had been at the start. No snatches of thoughts drifting to her as she shimmied along the wall, breath held for so long that she started to see little silver dots in her vision. Regrettably she let it out and breathed again quickly, envying Darklis her lack of need to do that. But she has heightened senses... that must be terrible. Yes, she could do that, focus on the other people in the group and do her best to keep the other thoughts-
DINNER TIME!
Dalila squeezed her eyes shut and tried to hold back a whimper, hardly hearing what the others were saying after that. It had seemed to ring off the insides of her mind, bouncing back like an echo, only it grew louder instead of quieter. That was the fear, she knew it was. And the real problem here? Was that Dalila was not used to fear. No one was used to being hunted, true, but she was not used to anything even remotely like this. She had never been afraid of monsters under her bed or in her closet. Her nightmares were always about the crash that had taken her hearing, but even that was not fear; how could someone be afraid of something that had already happened? But now... what are they saying? Dalila lifted her red-rimmed eyes and shuffled her feet. Right, Darklis was pretty much in charge and Lumen was not happy about it. Had that been a thought about how she would rather follow her? If her dominant nature was still intact. Dalila would have snorted, wondering if she was ever going to get that back, if they were ever going to get out of here. Or get out and then not end up back again because - god I need Jaws. She put a hand on Lumen's shoulder and shook her head. "Can we just not? Can we just go? She knows what she's doing..." Dalila really hoped that was true as she moved to stand nearer to Darklis, ready to go as best as she could. That was probably not going to be as fast as the others, but she would try her hardest. That whole 'I don't want to be dead' thing really helped. "Please; they're really... not far away." The thoughts were starting up again. "And you're right about traps... everywhere..." One of them was laughing about it.
And Dalila felt useless. Which was fitting since right then she really was.