[It's not so different from Shadow Traveling actually—the sensation of falling through a screaming void but then no follow-through on the landing—so Nico deals with it pretty well actually. No stumbling, he just plants his feet and stares at the grass beneath them with a gobsmacked expression. He thinks a hurried prayer of gratitude and notes that he should probably make a sacrifice the moment he can: Hades was watching, clearly.
But then Lev grabs higher up arm to keep from falling over himself, and Nico chokes on air, his vision blurring as he gets hit with what feels like a canon blast of pain from his shoulder blade down to his elbow. After a moment when Lev says something that he finds strangely hard to hear, Nico tears himself away with a whole lot more strength than he had displayed in the dollhouse. Probably enough to accidentally send the guy sprawling into the grass, which has begun to wither up and die beneath Nico's feet. What had once been bright, healthy green spreads out in a rapidly yellowing circle like the soles of his shoes are poisonous, smoking lightly in the otherwise cheery sunlight.] Oh, gods. [Blood is now dripping in stark rivulets out of the same shirt sleeve that the porcelain dust had fallen from, earlier.]
cw: blood
But then Lev grabs higher up arm to keep from falling over himself, and Nico chokes on air, his vision blurring as he gets hit with what feels like a canon blast of pain from his shoulder blade down to his elbow. After a moment when Lev says something that he finds strangely hard to hear, Nico tears himself away with a whole lot more strength than he had displayed in the dollhouse. Probably enough to accidentally send the guy sprawling into the grass, which has begun to wither up and die beneath Nico's feet. What had once been bright, healthy green spreads out in a rapidly yellowing circle like the soles of his shoes are poisonous, smoking lightly in the otherwise cheery sunlight.] Oh, gods. [Blood is now dripping in stark rivulets out of the same shirt sleeve that the porcelain dust had fallen from, earlier.]