01-06-2021, 01:23 PM
How did she die?
It had been such a simple thing, to die. She hadn't had to do anything.
"I made a choice." What is a trick? Foolish child, and not a great deal wiser, now, but more fearful, more tentative, not nearly so free with her choices. It shows in the way she pauses between thoughts, agonizing over the right words until she feels as if she is floating far away from the meadow and the ghostly viper child at her side, and then the words come like disjointed memories.
"I was asked a question I didn't understand, then I woke up in the Afterlife. Someone's idea of a joke. My Mama was there, but she isn't," (wasn't,) "dead either, and she peeled off all my skin, and when I found the Gatekeeper again, I looked like this," Her dark nose swings back to nip bitterly at her sea-glass flesh and the shifting bones beneath. "Just bones."
Such a simple thing. It's easy to die, all you need to do run afoul of someone stronger than you, and everyone is stronger than Sintra is. She shivers, pushing the horrorscape away again and reaching out to the too-close filly with her velvet nose.
"How--- how do you turn invisible? I would like to be invisible."
It had been such a simple thing, to die. She hadn't had to do anything.
"I made a choice." What is a trick? Foolish child, and not a great deal wiser, now, but more fearful, more tentative, not nearly so free with her choices. It shows in the way she pauses between thoughts, agonizing over the right words until she feels as if she is floating far away from the meadow and the ghostly viper child at her side, and then the words come like disjointed memories.
"I was asked a question I didn't understand, then I woke up in the Afterlife. Someone's idea of a joke. My Mama was there, but she isn't," (wasn't,) "dead either, and she peeled off all my skin, and when I found the Gatekeeper again, I looked like this," Her dark nose swings back to nip bitterly at her sea-glass flesh and the shifting bones beneath. "Just bones."
Such a simple thing. It's easy to die, all you need to do run afoul of someone stronger than you, and everyone is stronger than Sintra is. She shivers, pushing the horrorscape away again and reaching out to the too-close filly with her velvet nose.
"How--- how do you turn invisible? I would like to be invisible."
@[spectra]