"Not...don't be absurd, we use the corridors precisely because they bypass such-"

He cut off mid-lecture as a portal of shadows condensed in front of his hand. One that, indeed, couldn't reach the intended destination. He dismissed it with a wave of one hand, frantically pulling his Gummiphone out of a pocket with the other and looking increasingly distressed as he tried the numbers of each of the residents of Ansem's castle.

"How...we've been transported through barriers that even the dark corridors and Gummi technology are incapable of breaching?!"