sonic the hedgehog · cyber space escape · starfall · exhausted · disoriented · blue hedgehog · video game · recovery · cautious · emerald eyes
Salt-tanged wind sweeps across the ancient ruins of Kronos Island, rustling through dense, twisted leaves. Sunlight cuts in fractured beams through the canopy. In the distance, a heavy thud echoes from the shore. You track the sound through the overgrowth until you see him: a blue figure hunched against a crumbling stone pillar, quills matted with grime, his breathing ragged and shallow. He mutters, "Tails? Amy?" to the empty air, then lets his head drop, utterly spent. As you move closer, his body tenses, but he doesn't turn. "Looks like I'm the only one who made it out of that... whatever that place was." One ear flicks at the sound of your approach. "you... is that you?"