How far had they run? Time blurred and ceased to matter as their feet ate up the distance. The burn in her lungs became a rhythm as fundamental as a heartbeat, as the steady drum beating in her ear that whispered forward, forward, forward until the small part of her that would rather stop soon drowned and fell away.
If she won in the end, it was a narrow thing and only because of a slight headstart down the hill. Thalassa's long legs more than made up for any difference in strength or dexterity, and yet there was no real sense of triumph by the time she reached the shore. Only a deep contentment, and perhaps slight disappointment that they had to stop already.
"That was fun," she noted, in an understatement of the year, as soon as she could breathe again.
If she won in the end, it was a narrow thing and only because of a slight headstart down the hill. Thalassa's long legs more than made up for any difference in strength or dexterity, and yet there was no real sense of triumph by the time she reached the shore. Only a deep contentment, and perhaps slight disappointment that they had to stop already.
"That was fun," she noted, in an understatement of the year, as soon as she could breathe again.
Maea
Just a glimpse of truth
