Fay tried but failed to calm her rapidly-beating heart as she dangled on a loose cable attached to the newly-formed hole on the ceiling of a well-lit underground room.
Her mind constantly shouted one line to her over and over again: get out of here. As she tried to grip the cable with her paws, flashes of memories she'd rather not want to see again were almost blinding her. Her breaths became shallower as her heart continued beating faster.
Suddenly, she noticed the corners of her vision were starting to grow dark, and it was slowly growing, threatening to fill her entire sight with darkness.
She flailed her limbs in panic, her mouth's grip on the cable tightening.
She felt something on her paw, but she didn't know what, and then her other paw felt it, but she still was clueless as to what they were. Her panicking mind didn't care anyway. She just want to get out of the place.
Her mind registered too late that her paws her moving on their own, and when she realized it, a startled gasp escaped her mouth and—
"Oof—!"
She flopped down, belly-first, on something rough, dusty and solid, her limbs splayed all over. As her heart and her breath start to calm, the darkness in her eyes start to fade, and with a tired blink, the darkness was finally gone as she saw...
...even more darkness.
Blinking a confused blink, she slowly stood up on all four and looked around, finding herself inside a tunnel of some sort. Noticing the uneven ground she was standing on, she looked down and saw that she was standing on piles of wires.
"—now now, there's no need to be so hostile."
Her ears twitched, finally registering sound other than her noisy heartbeat a few seconds ago. She looked back and saw a huge hole on the ground, swaths of light emanating from it.
"...Huh," she breathed out, blinking. "Who knew being a panicky little mousey can make a panicky little mousey fly..." She chuckled a tired chuckle. The small smile eventually turned into a frown as she heard various voices from the hole.
An angry bubble formed in her heart. And then another, and another.
She quickly closed her eyes and shook her head, mentally popping those bubbles.
"I need to get out of here," she whispered to herself as she looked around once more. "I sure hope Saury's—" she cut herself off, her pupils shrinking as she suddenly felt dread all over. "Oh no..."