09-06-2015, 12:21 AM
love is a temporary madness...
No. The word bursts through her head (would have burst from her lips if it could have) as she relives those memories as though they had happened yesterday. She had had no control then, just as she has no control now. It is unbearable. There was a girl. She hears the words as clear as her own thoughts, though she knows they are not hers. They are his. She is confused. What girl? But she knows that is all the answer she will receive.
“I don’t know.”
Her mouth says the words, though she had not spoken them. And then she is walking, running, flying. He wants her happy memories, the ones of when she is in the highest reaches of the sky, cold air whipping against her, of Joscelin’s dear face, of Tiphon’s. But it is all lost amidst the horror of the moment, the grim memories of her distant past. And suddenly she is plummeting as her body forgets how to fly.
Panic seizes her. Fly! She screams inside her head. It’s easy, just fly! She is speaking to herself far more than she is speaking to him. She knows how to fly. She has known how to since the very moment of her birth. But it does not listen, cannot listen. The terror comes then, the fear of falling ingrained into all creatures.
It is his terror as much as it is hers. I’m dying. We’re dying. In that moment, they are as much her thoughts as they are his. Her light bursts from her, a blinding wave of energy bolting into the earth so close to them now. It digs a shallow crater into the ground, just that much farther for them to fall. She screams, shoving him away. There is no reason for both of them to die. Even in this moment, when death is imminent, when he had tormented her unspeakably (unknowingly), she cannot prevent her urge to protect. And suddenly, she can control her body again. The silent scream suddenly slips from her lungs, splitting the air with ear-shattering tones. But she is too close to the ground. Far too close. She tries to stop herself, but it is too late.
She hits the earth with a sickening crunch. At first, she is certain that she must be dead. But then the pain comes. Agony screaming through her body, and she is certain she must be dying. That is the last thought on her mind before she passes out, the world blackening around her.
“I don’t know.”
Her mouth says the words, though she had not spoken them. And then she is walking, running, flying. He wants her happy memories, the ones of when she is in the highest reaches of the sky, cold air whipping against her, of Joscelin’s dear face, of Tiphon’s. But it is all lost amidst the horror of the moment, the grim memories of her distant past. And suddenly she is plummeting as her body forgets how to fly.
Panic seizes her. Fly! She screams inside her head. It’s easy, just fly! She is speaking to herself far more than she is speaking to him. She knows how to fly. She has known how to since the very moment of her birth. But it does not listen, cannot listen. The terror comes then, the fear of falling ingrained into all creatures.
It is his terror as much as it is hers. I’m dying. We’re dying. In that moment, they are as much her thoughts as they are his. Her light bursts from her, a blinding wave of energy bolting into the earth so close to them now. It digs a shallow crater into the ground, just that much farther for them to fall. She screams, shoving him away. There is no reason for both of them to die. Even in this moment, when death is imminent, when he had tormented her unspeakably (unknowingly), she cannot prevent her urge to protect. And suddenly, she can control her body again. The silent scream suddenly slips from her lungs, splitting the air with ear-shattering tones. But she is too close to the ground. Far too close. She tries to stop herself, but it is too late.
She hits the earth with a sickening crunch. At first, she is certain that she must be dead. But then the pain comes. Agony screaming through her body, and she is certain she must be dying. That is the last thought on her mind before she passes out, the world blackening around her.
elysteria
Awesome! I'm going to open this up for anyone who wants to stumble in and find her passed out.