Logs:Take A Breath
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| RL Date: 8 April, 2015 |
| Who: Laine |
| Involves: High Reaches Weyr |
| Type: Vignette |
| What: Pretending like Everything Is Okay, Laine goes climbing. (Warning: melodrama~) |
| Where: Somewhere on the Bowl Wall, High Reaches Weyr |
| When: Day 21, Month 6, Turn 37 (Interval 10) |
| Weather: Sad with a chance of ash :( |
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| Dangling from three fingers fit inside a pocket of stone, feet braced against a narrow ledge, Laine eases her weight back and shakes out her free hand. She takes a breath, steady. There: bearing herself down on her toes, she drives herself higher on the stone wall, darts her hand at a slender outcropping, fingers seeking purchase -- (The summer breeze shifts over the seared tract in the Weyr bowl. It carries the sharp, pungent odor of smoke and ash and scorched incense.) -- and one foot lurches out from under her. Her body jerks as she catches herself, sways as she seeks that edge with her toes, and it's only with a swift, angry kick that she manages to lodge the ball of her foot and toe against a jutting bulge of stone. Here, she pauses. Closes her eyes. There's a slow, deliberate breath. And another. She adjusts her foot, smearing it hard against rock, a slight shift that allows her to balance her weight again. She lowers her forehead until it rests on that cool stone. Breathes. She turns her head, opens her eyes -- (That charred semicircle, stark in the middle of the bowl, littered still with singed paper lanterns and blackened wooden beams, springs sharply into view.) -- and those three fingers, wedged inside the shallow pit of rock, betray her. She fumbles, nails scratching against slab, throwing herself into the stone, but it's too slow, too frantic, and she topples backward. There's an instant of stomach-dropping freefall. The impact on her mattress is heavy, awkward. Laine, with shuddering breaths drawn in through her nose, lays sprawled on her back, staring without seeing at the sky. She balls a fist and pounds it against the mattress. "Fuck." Laine starts to cry. |
Comments
Farideh (17:18, 8 April 2015 (EDT)) said...
Poor Laine. :( I love the inside feels. <3
Edyis (18:26, 8 April 2015 (EDT)) said...
So heartbreaking, so frustrating. I loved this.
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