06-17-2015, 01:56 PM
and when I breathed, my breath was lightning
Is it true that big girls don’t cry? Perhaps. But she couldn’t imagine not crying at the moment she found her parents in the afterlife. First, because she was so happy to see them again that she didn’t even think of the implications. And then, because only moments later, she understood what finding them there meant. In a strange way though, she understands that having them dead means she can see them now. She knows where they are. She knows they are together and happy and alright. They are gone, but they aren’t really gone.
Well, they are less gone than they had been when she simply didn’t know where they were.
It doesn’t entirely make sense, honestly. All of it. She’s happy and sad all at once, still not entirely sure any of it happened. She can understand how Scorch and Kagerou might have felt like their quest was only a dream. Maybe it all was a dream. But still, she knows that she nearly died. She knows, without a doubt, that she has the ability to turn into a ghost now.
“Carnage called to us, to find Gail. Apparently he’s capable of love.” This too still baffles her a bit. She doesn’t expect him to be capable of anything but destruction, truthfully. But clearly there’s so much more to him than they will ever really know. He was young once, a king once, lived like Eight and Cam live now. She supposes she shouldn’t be surprised he had a life one. But still, it’s hard to wrap her mind around all of it.
“He sent us to space, and Lagertha came, and we made it through space into a wormhole. After that, I don’t know where we were. Somewhere in the future, when the world was being destroyed by gods or monsters or both. There were so many monsters, but Lagertha and I found the wormhole there too. I couldn’t see her then. I don’t know what she faced.” She turns slightly and nods to the ice cold burn mark on her haunch. It was hard to burn her, but ice seemed to do the trick. “One of the three creatures I encountered.”
She doesn’t mention the one that morphed into Kora. She’s still not sure if that was a monster at all, or just her own mind at that point reeling with everything they had been though. “Then we found Gail. At the end of the world. I’ve seen the end of the world. Heard the monsters that destroy it. I didn’t see them, but Lagertha might have. She never made it back from there. I don’t know how Carnage got her home. But when the rest of us got back with Gail, Beqanna wouldn’t let her back. I guess because she was already dead, really. We were all thrown into the realm of the dead.”
It’s real. They are all there. Echion and Kagerou and Vanquish and her parents. Kora. The first Kora. Not her sister, but the girl that never lived at all. “Vanquish got me home. Sent me flying through a rip in the realms. The world’s funniest sight, because I couldn’t shift into a lion. Do you know how awkward it is being flown around by someone in horse form?”
She laughs. She can’t help it. That part of the ordeal had been hilarious, despite the fact she was nearly dead at that point. “I guess some of that realm came with me. I’m half dead, half alive. Well, capable of shifting between the two, anyway. You know I’ll take you back. Wouldn’t have told you if I wasn’t going to.”
Well, they are less gone than they had been when she simply didn’t know where they were.
It doesn’t entirely make sense, honestly. All of it. She’s happy and sad all at once, still not entirely sure any of it happened. She can understand how Scorch and Kagerou might have felt like their quest was only a dream. Maybe it all was a dream. But still, she knows that she nearly died. She knows, without a doubt, that she has the ability to turn into a ghost now.
“Carnage called to us, to find Gail. Apparently he’s capable of love.” This too still baffles her a bit. She doesn’t expect him to be capable of anything but destruction, truthfully. But clearly there’s so much more to him than they will ever really know. He was young once, a king once, lived like Eight and Cam live now. She supposes she shouldn’t be surprised he had a life one. But still, it’s hard to wrap her mind around all of it.
“He sent us to space, and Lagertha came, and we made it through space into a wormhole. After that, I don’t know where we were. Somewhere in the future, when the world was being destroyed by gods or monsters or both. There were so many monsters, but Lagertha and I found the wormhole there too. I couldn’t see her then. I don’t know what she faced.” She turns slightly and nods to the ice cold burn mark on her haunch. It was hard to burn her, but ice seemed to do the trick. “One of the three creatures I encountered.”
She doesn’t mention the one that morphed into Kora. She’s still not sure if that was a monster at all, or just her own mind at that point reeling with everything they had been though. “Then we found Gail. At the end of the world. I’ve seen the end of the world. Heard the monsters that destroy it. I didn’t see them, but Lagertha might have. She never made it back from there. I don’t know how Carnage got her home. But when the rest of us got back with Gail, Beqanna wouldn’t let her back. I guess because she was already dead, really. We were all thrown into the realm of the dead.”
It’s real. They are all there. Echion and Kagerou and Vanquish and her parents. Kora. The first Kora. Not her sister, but the girl that never lived at all. “Vanquish got me home. Sent me flying through a rip in the realms. The world’s funniest sight, because I couldn’t shift into a lion. Do you know how awkward it is being flown around by someone in horse form?”
She laughs. She can’t help it. That part of the ordeal had been hilarious, despite the fact she was nearly dead at that point. “I guess some of that realm came with me. I’m half dead, half alive. Well, capable of shifting between the two, anyway. You know I’ll take you back. Wouldn’t have told you if I wasn’t going to.”
rhy
the electric lioness of riagan and rayelle
