To Reidar, it didn't feel like he was falling; it felt like he was being unmade.
He tried to deal with the sensation of crossing what he assumed was the event horizon, but his mind couldn't map it as a physical transition like that of changing location, which he could only infer, though, since he had never teleported before or gone into a portal. Instead, he felt a violent change of reality itself.
Plus, the feeling was disorienting for many reasons; for example, one second, he could feel the resistance of the dirt under his boots and the strain of his muscles as he grappled with Mara in the forest; the next, his brain stuttered as the very concepts of "forest" and "dirt" simply ceased to exist, as everything else did.
The gravity he expected to drag him down vanished, leaving him sick with disorientation, replaced by an omnidirectional pressure. He felt a spike of genuine terror, as if the universe were trying to compress his entire being into a single mass of flesh.
