RexannA
maybe they'd forgotten,
when they failed to see the cracks.
Either she was being ridiculously stupid, or they’d survive this. The last words he said to her repeated in her mind over and over as she clamped her eyes shut and leapt from the bridge. “Do you want to live forever?” The thought causing her stomach to churn. “No,” she thought, “but I don’t want it over this soon.” As the wind picked up, and she free fell, a small scream slipped from her lips before the air whooshed it out of her – to where she didn’t think she could scream again or even catch her own breath.
Her stomach jumped into her lungs, her heart frantically beating as she was certain both she and Alistair would be splattered on the ground. But she kept falling, tumbling down as she fought to regain control of her slim body – her hair tangling up above her as she fell, her clothes billowing in odd places and flattening in others. When she finally regained control of herself, she could nearly see the bottom. Her eyes clamped shut yet again, fearful to watch herself splatter herself across the rocky stones at the bottom, her teeth clamping on her bottom lip enough to draw blood.
Suddenly, she slowed, her feet finding their way onto the ground before her as she was virtually unharmed. She could feel the blood beginning to drip from her lip onto her chin, and she heard Alistair not too far away laughing in what seemed like hysterics. Sapphire eyes slipped open, scanning the grey misty area around to see where the man had gone, to find him laying on the ground and continuing to laugh.
“You buffoon!” She chided, still not quite believing that they had both made it. Her terror made her legs a bit weak and shaky, but she did her best to run over to the naked man. “You are an idiot, Alistair.” She said, brows furrowing as she tried to be angry at him. But one look at him, that laugh that lit up his face, she couldn’t help but to breathlessly laugh, finding her legs giving out beneath her as she tumbled to the ground next to him. She landed on her rear as well, running a hand through her hair, forgetting about the blood on her chin that continued to drip down slowly as she shook her head.
“We’re both idiots.” She amended with another breathless laugh. She turned to Alistair and tried to shove his shoulder as she focused on him. “He didn’t actually tell us to jump!” She said with another laugh, suddenly overcome as the giggles racked her body, her shoulders hunching slightly as she tried to calm down, but she too had grown hysterical. “Good gods.” She laughed and tried to catch her breath again, grinning from ear to ear as a small line of crimson continued to slip from her bottom lip.
that a star's light shines the brightest,
when it's starting to collapse.
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