The moment Finn crossed the threshold into the Stagnant Sea's influence, his body immediately felt the difference.
Weightlessness overtook him first. It overwhelmed him wholly in an unpleasant way. He could see his wings beating by his sides, but the motion felt disconnected from him, as if it were someone else's wings flapping.
And despite this weightlessness, in a paradoxical contrast that showed just how utterly broken the laws here were, he still somehow felt a corporeal pressure descend on him.
It was all-encompassing. It built up inside his chest, behind his eyes, in the marrow of his bones. As if the same gravity that seemed to have disappeared on the outside had instead multiplied on his insides.
His organs felt compressed against his spine. His lungs struggled to stretch against ribs that seemed determined to collapse inward. Every heartbeat became a struggle as his heart strained to pump blood that had grown impossibly heavy.
