"No!" he shouted, not content to go gentle into the mirror. "Don't let go!" It didn't matter that the tug of war already hurt, that his shoulders were screaming bloody murder at him, because there was no way this was supposed to be happening and there'd been a damn body discovered at the school and he figured the two things had to be connected because he simply couldn't handle two completely insane things happening unrelated to each other.

It was when his grip on the locker slipped that Kota realized that it might be possible for Ren to get pulled in along with him. And no matter how insane this all seemed, at least she sounded like she knew what was going on. She'd said "we". If they both got pulled in, he doubted help would come.

"Shit! Okay, okay, I'll stay put!" He didn't think he needed to add the "just hurry" part, and his fingers were slipping again.