Ryugen
As far as he was aware, there was some kind of unwritten rule that men, especially manly men, didn't scream. Although quite frankly he'd thrown out any hopes of being a manly man at the first tremor, and he screamed for all he was worth, grabbing at empty space in the blind hope there'd be -something- there to stop his blind fall into who knew what. For all he knew at this point it could have been three inches, it could have been three miles. It didn't mater, the only thing that mattered at that particular moment was weather or not the fall was going to kill him, which the panicing, irrational part of his brain was totaly convinced was going to happen, damn him for not listening at the door. The rational part of his brain, which had been assuring him all this while that all of this had to be some kind of bizzare fantasy or special effect set up, had quietly withdrawn it's arguments from the table. It didn't have a good rebuttal for an an plummet.
It seemed as though he would continue falling for all eternity until it suddenly stopped. There was no sudden crash that lead to wherever the darkness finally bottomed out. The motion all around him simply ceased. No falling. No loss of gravity or the feeling of weightlessness as though in space. There was nothing.
Though slowly, it seemed as though there was once more a light in the distance, but closer than before. The setting before Falkner seemed to fade into view like a Polaroid photograph that was taking its time developing fully.
Once everything came into view (and perhaps after the vertigo from the fall ceased), Falkner would find him in nothing more than simple hallway. The very first door he had stepped through before being hurled into a world of sand was at his back, but locked.