It wasn't working, why wasn't it working?! She could still hear them. The demons birds. Trigon. He was going to make her his portal. No. He didn't need her as a portal, he was already there and she didn't know how to fight him. She didn't know how to make him go away. Dream!her didn't even know and she was used to all of the crazy.
Of course, the more panicked she got, the more she hyperventilated, the worse it got and the more she tried to curl into herself. But instead of disappearing or stopping, a voice broke through the chaos of her mind and she looked up from, terrified of what she would see.
"...Kent?"
As much as they egged one another on, she knew he wasn't a horrible person, they just were complete opposites. But she hadn't expected this. And she was too exhausted and too terrified to care that it showed on her face.