MAEA
Rock. More rock. To her left, to the right. Above, and after a fumbly, questing search with a white-toed foot, below too there was rock. Maea's pulse was speeding now, her thoughts racing between images of an untimely death and all the things she had yet to do with her life. On the other side of the bond, she felt the soft support of her companion like a gentle warmth, as though to remind her which way led back to life, and behind her... Behind her was Liam. Solid, and real, and only here because she'd asked him to be.
Thinking of him kept the panic from consuming her mind. She couldn't draw breath so she bit her lip instead, hard enough to stain the water with blood, and in the clarity of the pain she found the grit to search one more time. Above, below, left and - there. A crack she had missed the first time. Pulling herself closer, Maea plunged an arm into the void and found that it was a small jumble of rocks that was blocking the way. Tumbled from the ceiling perhaps, or heaved in by waves, it didn't matter as long as she could move enough out of the way to squeeze through.
Pushing on the obstacles, bubbles slipped from her mouth and nose from the exertion. White hair drifted around her like a veil, a paler shade of black in the darkness - her lungs were burning now, but just as she wondered if they would have to turn back, the resistance gave way under her hands and with a scraping rumble the path opened. Hurrying onwards, she felt Liam like a shift in the currents behind her, never further away than she could reach.
And suddenly the world brightened up ahead, a circle of light that spilled fresh saltwater into the tunnel with a rhythmic pulse akin to a heartbeat.
Thinking of him kept the panic from consuming her mind. She couldn't draw breath so she bit her lip instead, hard enough to stain the water with blood, and in the clarity of the pain she found the grit to search one more time. Above, below, left and - there. A crack she had missed the first time. Pulling herself closer, Maea plunged an arm into the void and found that it was a small jumble of rocks that was blocking the way. Tumbled from the ceiling perhaps, or heaved in by waves, it didn't matter as long as she could move enough out of the way to squeeze through.
Pushing on the obstacles, bubbles slipped from her mouth and nose from the exertion. White hair drifted around her like a veil, a paler shade of black in the darkness - her lungs were burning now, but just as she wondered if they would have to turn back, the resistance gave way under her hands and with a scraping rumble the path opened. Hurrying onwards, she felt Liam like a shift in the currents behind her, never further away than she could reach.
And suddenly the world brightened up ahead, a circle of light that spilled fresh saltwater into the tunnel with a rhythmic pulse akin to a heartbeat.
Bleeding out for you
BASE INSPIRED BY ODD <3
