MABEL
She careened and fell; no pain ricocheting through her legs. Perhaps some part of her had hoped Evelyn’s spirit would run through hers, and she’d suddenly find herself aloft, thrown into air and sky. Instead, the item was out of her hands.
A panicked sensation quickened in her throat and there was a chance, a moment, where she believed it gone, that she’d lost this opportunity, diminished and pathetic and –
Images came through. Stone. Dark, stone, and not the ones she peered at now. She lifted her head, confused, until she was the little butterfly, aloft and hardly forlorn, hastening in the void, gathering its adornments, its own visions, for her to see.
And maybe, in some way, her sister was still there, as she hastened a smile, and beckoned it back to her waiting hands. “Thank you,” she whispered to nothing and everything, before scampering out of the Spire’s wake; another aspiration sticking to her ribs.
{FIN <3}
A panicked sensation quickened in her throat and there was a chance, a moment, where she believed it gone, that she’d lost this opportunity, diminished and pathetic and –
Images came through. Stone. Dark, stone, and not the ones she peered at now. She lifted her head, confused, until she was the little butterfly, aloft and hardly forlorn, hastening in the void, gathering its adornments, its own visions, for her to see.
And maybe, in some way, her sister was still there, as she hastened a smile, and beckoned it back to her waiting hands. “Thank you,” she whispered to nothing and everything, before scampering out of the Spire’s wake; another aspiration sticking to her ribs.
{FIN <3}
If you dig under my feet
You will find things that you don't want to see
You will find things that you don't want to see
