To dust
-Until the dial abruptly swiveled up and down and began to rotate wildly in every direction.
She felt something tug at her, not physically but spiritually instead. It began as a pit in her stomach and turned into a soul-crushing sense of doom.
She fell to the floor as alarm bells began to ring out in her head, a feeling no one shared since they were dancing in new-found delight upon escaping a most certain end.
"I-I can't breathe!" she tried to speak but only a hushed whisper escaped her lips.
Princess Ceni didn't know what to do because she had never experienced anything even remotely similar in all her life. It felt like the entire world was crashing down on her, trying to bury her as deep as possible.
It felt like all hope had been stomped out of existence. And then it finally hit her.
'Is this...what dying feels like?'
She clutched her chest in hopes of causing enough pain to perhaps numb the feeling but nothing could push it down.