08-08-2024, 08:42 AM
Asha made herself small in the boat, a tiny crouched figure all but drowned in a black coat. She could swim, but the terrifying lash of the waves gave her no hope of survival if she fell in. El had disappeared from her senses, but she knew it was him who caused it; a manifestation of anger she for once couldn’t feel, but which tore physically into the world around them instead. His absence left her no protection from the outside. Fear raced her heart like it might burst. Panic made her shake as though her body was no longer her own. And there was worse too.
It only came into sharper relief the closer he drove them relentlessly to shore. It’s not like they had been the only boat on the lake on such a calm day. Her breathing came in sharp sobs, trying desperately to convince her lungs they were not full of water, as her sentient gift was sure they were. And when they lurched to a sudden stop, she rolled with the motion, unable to stop herself. Her body remained curled into itself in the bottom of the boat. Trembling arms cocooned around her head, and she was soaked through to her icy core. The overload left her almost catatonic. Asha was not aware. Caught still in a storm of her own, she could only feel.
It only came into sharper relief the closer he drove them relentlessly to shore. It’s not like they had been the only boat on the lake on such a calm day. Her breathing came in sharp sobs, trying desperately to convince her lungs they were not full of water, as her sentient gift was sure they were. And when they lurched to a sudden stop, she rolled with the motion, unable to stop herself. Her body remained curled into itself in the bottom of the boat. Trembling arms cocooned around her head, and she was soaked through to her icy core. The overload left her almost catatonic. Asha was not aware. Caught still in a storm of her own, she could only feel.