For a moment he felt numb once the noise had come and gone. Then slowly his whole head began to feel warm, almost feverish. Dizzyness and confusion followed. He could barely keep his balance, the room felt like it was shifting slowly, made harder by the fact that it was now extremely dark. Had the bang just shorted out the electricity in his apartment?? It was so dark.
He reached up and rubbed at the back of his head, where he now felt a slight pain, probably from the whiplash of reacting to the suddent burst of light and loud bang.
Sill dazed, he registered there was some sort of noise somewhere near him, but he couldn't quite make out what it was, his ears still ringing from the sudden loud noise… what was that?? Had the statue exploded??
His surroundings felt so chaotic…. Still, the noise near him wouldn't stop, it seemed to come in bursts, then stop. Finally after some seconds he could somehwat make out what the noise was… a voice!
Still trying to regain his composure, he caugh a word here and there, as well as what the tone of voice indicated: urgency.
He slowly began to regain his recollection of the last few moments… he'd gotten a call just earlier…

"Ashu! Hey! Are you still there?? Helloo??"

He could hear the voice more clearly now. He realized surely the loud bang he had just experienced was audible over the call, and that most likely Mercer might think something bad could have happened to him.
Still, among the sound of Mercer's voice calling out to him, there seemed to be another sound that felt like it hadn't been there before… it was his… own breathing? For some reason it felt a lot more noticeable than before, he could tell it was much louder somehow, his breath noisily being exhaled out of his lungs.

*HFF… HUFFF… snff…*
"Mnnghh…. Mff…"

He said to Mercer, trying to assure him he was … huh…
maybe his hearing was still recovering, that didn't sound quite right.

"Ashu! you're ok?? Answer me!"

*HUFF… HFFF*

His loud breathing being cumbersome to his hearing might have been why he didn't hear himself speak as well. He tried one more time to re-assure Mercer that he was fine, though his face did feel numb now, though no longer warm.

"Hmgh… Mngh hnng."

He said in a more definite tone of voice, trying to sound reassuring. But this time he heard himself clearly, his voice made no sense. He wasn't sure there had been even a single word in what he said, it was more like his voice was just making sound when he attempted to speak, but no words would come out…

"… Mmnn… mnff??" he tried speaking once more, but again words refused so escape his mouth

Somthing wasn't right

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aahhh... nothing like a simple classic noseface ... it's been a while since i've commission a straightforward noseface tf! sometimes simple works pretty good
and i mean, damn look at the nares on that guy... holy shit... nghh i just wanna touch and feel them so bad!
hear his big breathy groans and noises omggg

art by  mr.lifur