Post by SSaiYen on Apr 12, 2021 23:31:14 GMT
Adrift.
Thick black haze all around me.
Like drowning in sap.
My limbs are heavy, pulled down down down...
Time stops; heart stops.
A flash of light; colors, a prismatic wonder, etched
upon my eyelids as I spiral, caught in the miasma
of darkness. A sudden BANG so loud my ears ring and
everything muffles; hushed voices speaking panicked
messages, all around me.
Up, down... the colors fade and are replaced by
shadows. Trees, silhouetted by fire, flames lapping
upwards, deep into the nether. Bodies swaying, arms
flailing, striking at each other, as slowly they fall
away. Down, down...
Eyes heavy, mind swimming, lips forming words that
cannot will not must not emerge - call to them,
help them -
alas...
Down, down...
Heavy, my body is not my own;
it relents, it sinks, it betrays me.
A flap of wings - feathers strike my face.
Hundreds of them;
thousands of them;
millions of them.
They replace the inky darkness, swallowing it,
a whirling tornado of feathers - I am encompassed,
embraced, bound...
Fingers struggle at my throat; my voice, where is my
voice?! Fear wells in my stomach and c r a w l s
upward, it's claws tearing me apart on it's ascent...
I try to draw air and fail.
Drowning... I am drowning...
Cough cough cough sputter;
from my mouth pours the fractured shards of stone,
shattered - so many pieces, sharp, they draw blood
from my silent tongue.
Quiet; like ash, it fades away, the nether returns -
so many pieces, falling into the darkness,
as flickering lights.
And I awaken.
She.
Grey Oracle.