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[justify][size=10]▶ ▶ ▶ The sky was shattered with streaks of lightening. It screamed in response using low rumbles of thunder, and the steady drumming of the rain on roofs and hard ground accompanied it to form a symphony crafted by the hands of mother nature. This was far more than enough to keep the small-statured Alaska Abshire up throughout the night. She'd long since stopped jumping at the noise, but her eyes remained cast at the window in what most would presume was fascination. What actually kept her eyes glued to the window pane was a mind numbing fear that had morphed into something that kept her thoughts running on overdrive.
My head was warm; my skin was soaked. I called your name 'til the fever broke. When I awoke the moon still hung, the night so black that the darkness hummed.
Time crawled on with little regard to the domestic's sanity. Seconds unfolded into what felt like an eternity when used to measure the time between strikes of lightening. At times it was barely four seconds between one searing jab of white light until the next. Other times it was minutes before the clouds aimed to strike the earth with pale fire. Forever hadn't seemed like a long time until one was forced awake by weather patterns that usually rendered them immobile.
I raised myself. My legs were weak. I prayed my mind be good to me. An awful noise filled the air; I heard a scream in the woods somewhere.
Somehow her paws had began carrying her body out of her home, and as much as she wanted to protest... she didn't. The deep thunder continued to attempt to ward her off and back into her den, but she made no effort to turn. A sort of auto-pilot had taken over her body. Perhaps this was a sort of conditioning to help her get over her fear. If she didn't think- didn't feel- during a storm, it couldn't hurt her.
A woman's voice! I quickly ran into the trees with empty hands. A fox it was, he shook afraid. I spoke no words, no sound he made
White paws stained with mud and fur clung to her dainty frame. Water blurred her vision, and while it was annoying she hadn't been consciously going anywhere. Needless to say it didn't pose too much of a problem in her current state. She trekked onward until she wasn't sure of where she was anymore. Still, her body acted as the wind and moved independently towards a destination everyone was unaware of. The rain, though she hadn't noticed, had lightened up at this point.
His bone exposed. His hind was lame. I raised a stone to end his pain. What caused the wound? How large the teeth? I sure knew eyes were watching me.
Her legs stopped moving, and a peculiar scent carried its way to her. By now the rain, and the thunder along with it, had stopped entirely. The sun prodded the edges of the horizon slowly. New, more gentle streaks painted the horizon as if it were a canvas. Sapphire blue eyes found a new host to glue themselves to, and a smile formed on her lips. While she had been kept up by the storm, she had also put the fear aside long enough to venture from her den. Because she had, her eyes now got to feast upon the almost unrealistic beauty of a sunrise after a storm.
The creature lunged. I turned and ran to save a life I didn't have. Dear, in the chase, there as I flew, forgot all prayers of joining you.
The scent made itself known again, but this time a source could be found. At the same time a low whimper could be heard. Alaska's ears flattened back, but she didn't make an effort to move until the creature made the same pitiful noise again. Curious, she turned and made her way over to the source of the smell and noise. It came into sight and yet at the same time she couldn't see anything there. The creature was smudged and blurred through her vision, but strangely enough the large open would on its flank was entirely visible. Blood caked its fur, or at least what she could see of its fur. The wound, upon further investigation, appeared to be a large bitemark. "Are yo-," the female was interrupted by a low growl. Her head slowly raised from near the animal, and she swiveled it around to peer at the culprit. Once again, she couldn't really see the figure beyond the gleam of its teeth. The shape towered over her like a redwood tree. Without another sound it shot towards her.
I clutched my life, and wished it kept. My dearest love I'm not done yet. How many years I know I'll bear. I found something in the woods somewhere.
Alaska's sapphire eyes shot open and her body lurched to life. The sun warmed her skin and she seemed to be laying in camp, though she didn't have any memory of how she got there. The warrior stared blankly at a nearby house, and she did her best to process everything she'd just seen. Her fur was clean and dry, she wasn't injured, and it didn't look like it had rained in several days. "Était-ce un rêve?" she mumbled in French, trying to save herself from any questions she might have to answer if someone overheard her. Everything she'd just experienced felt so real. How could it have all been a dream?
//So you definitely don't have to read this if you don't want to. She basically just had a dream (WHICH IS PART OF A PLOT I WILL SOON DELVE INTO) and the last paragraph is the only thing you need to reply, really. Click here to listen to the song! This takes place after she waked up from her coma (even though I haven't made that thread yet, oops).
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