MABEL
She rose, but not in the same way she fell.
Swept out to sea, to be delivered back into anguish and despair, if she’d ever had those emotions in the first place. If those remnants were truly still a part of her. If she was anything, anything at all.
No need for breaths, for gasps, for rushed heartbeats, jut the flesh, bone, and enamel of recreation, of resurrection for the second time. Her eyes opened, and she was no longer in the bastion of waves, no longer slowly dying, warping away, function erased while she drained apart.
But out in the snow, amidst flickering lights, a dazzling array of senses she hadn’t had in so long.
Follow the words spoke, and like a moth to a flame, she did, she did, she did. Footsteps blurring, movements uncertain, then swift, everything blistering and not at the same time. Fruition. Life.
Rapid blinking, confusion, and then nothing. No turmoil. No torment.
Naught, except…except…
Ambition. Aspirations. Triumph.
But she hid the ruthless smile threatening to bound over her features, and instead, looked to the world, to the edges, to the ice, and wondered where her sister was.
Swept out to sea, to be delivered back into anguish and despair, if she’d ever had those emotions in the first place. If those remnants were truly still a part of her. If she was anything, anything at all.
No need for breaths, for gasps, for rushed heartbeats, jut the flesh, bone, and enamel of recreation, of resurrection for the second time. Her eyes opened, and she was no longer in the bastion of waves, no longer slowly dying, warping away, function erased while she drained apart.
But out in the snow, amidst flickering lights, a dazzling array of senses she hadn’t had in so long.
Follow the words spoke, and like a moth to a flame, she did, she did, she did. Footsteps blurring, movements uncertain, then swift, everything blistering and not at the same time. Fruition. Life.
Rapid blinking, confusion, and then nothing. No turmoil. No torment.
Naught, except…except…
Ambition. Aspirations. Triumph.
But she hid the ruthless smile threatening to bound over her features, and instead, looked to the world, to the edges, to the ice, and wondered where her sister was.
I bare my teeth
and stretch my claws out
and stretch my claws out
