04-28-2021, 08:25 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-07-2021, 02:33 AM by gerra. Edited 2 times in total.)
One does not wish to be burned alive. It is not something that one ever should desire to experience. The smoke that fills one's lungs, clouding and blocking essential function with a sweep of black tar. The smell of hair burning, turning to ash. The feeling of flesh peeling away, charring and blackening. It is not something anyone should ever experience.
Thankfully, it was not something that Nevada had experienced first hand.
She had escaped the carnage by mere hours, fleeing at the first scent of fire. The first sign of smoke, rising above the maze in a way she knew was inescapable. The first howls and cackles of the monsters who were coming after her. The first sign of Ragnarok. She had sought out her children, her mates, her goddess, anything - and then
blackness
had filled her everything.
She did not know the way she died. If she was aware of it at the time, she could not remember. That all-consuming blackness had become her existence and she had floated in nothingness for so long that she could barely remember to breathe.
But breathe she did. Gasping, sucking in cold morning air, she burst into the new world and fell
Fell?
Fell as in-elegantly as possible from a tree.
How she had found herself in the tree's branches, she had no clue. Whether she had materialized into existence somewhere between branch and ground was also beyond her comprehension as she tumbled down into a sea of blue. This blue was not water, but instead endless flowers, spreading out in either direction. She lay among the leaves, gasping for breath, before she rose and shook herself free of the leaves and dirt and... blood? Blood was trailing down her face and she could see it between her eyes, spread across her snout.
She lifted a paw and wiped away at the blood, feeling it smear across her snout, but there was no pain. Licking her lips, she found the fur as pristine and scarless as in her youth. Her scars had faded.. but how? She felt... younger, somehow. Full of life in a way she hadn't felt in more days than she could remember.
She turned in place, still trying to make sense of where she was and why the receding blackness made her feel so very alone.
Thankfully, it was not something that Nevada had experienced first hand.
She had escaped the carnage by mere hours, fleeing at the first scent of fire. The first sign of smoke, rising above the maze in a way she knew was inescapable. The first howls and cackles of the monsters who were coming after her. The first sign of Ragnarok. She had sought out her children, her mates, her goddess, anything - and then
blackness
had filled her everything.
She did not know the way she died. If she was aware of it at the time, she could not remember. That all-consuming blackness had become her existence and she had floated in nothingness for so long that she could barely remember to breathe.
But breathe she did. Gasping, sucking in cold morning air, she burst into the new world and fell
Fell?
Fell as in-elegantly as possible from a tree.
How she had found herself in the tree's branches, she had no clue. Whether she had materialized into existence somewhere between branch and ground was also beyond her comprehension as she tumbled down into a sea of blue. This blue was not water, but instead endless flowers, spreading out in either direction. She lay among the leaves, gasping for breath, before she rose and shook herself free of the leaves and dirt and... blood? Blood was trailing down her face and she could see it between her eyes, spread across her snout.
She lifted a paw and wiped away at the blood, feeling it smear across her snout, but there was no pain. Licking her lips, she found the fur as pristine and scarless as in her youth. Her scars had faded.. but how? She felt... younger, somehow. Full of life in a way she hadn't felt in more days than she could remember.
She turned in place, still trying to make sense of where she was and why the receding blackness made her feel so very alone.
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