Post by Avacyn on Mar 15, 2015 20:04:17 GMT
She ran as hard and fast as her fear soaked legs would allow. Her chest heaved, lungs raw and screaming for more oxygen than they could steal from the air, heart pounding against her chest like a fist threatening to break through her ribcage. She tried to fight back the tears. What was it that tried to get her? It – it was nothing remotely human or natural. If only she had her bow. Running was something she was bad at, but if she could just stick an arrow into those chasing her...
She fought to see clearly. Maybe this was all a nightmare, and in a moment, she'd wake up, terrified, and it'll be all over? She fought back the tears, as much as she had fought back from from the tendrils and wide, gaping maw. No wonder the old admin block was abandoned... Of course there were the rumours, but they always are made up by the younger years, right?
Selina felt the streaming sweat dampen and slicken her mane of flowing brown hair. Her neck felt like it was being strangled by her collar, which was always too tight. The skirt of her uniform felt like a large rubber band wrapping round her legs. Was everything trying hard to stop her from getting away? She swallowed hard, her throat dry and raw from her frenzied attempts to go and get the air to fuel her aching, fear-taloned body. What got to her was they were still behind her, still chasing. And it was like they were just keeping back, just waiting for her to get too tired. A thought went back to the nature documentary she saw a couple of nights ago. Hot, stinging tears streaked away as she remembered how the wolves had chased and chased the deer, until it couldn't run any more. Then, when it was finally exhausted, they surrounded it.
Would that happen to her? Was that the plan? Wait until she couldn't run any more, then drag her back to be... eaten? Was that what it was doing? But why? Why her, why her, why her? She couldn't think of a reason. She couldn't think any more. All she wanted was to get away, to get to life her life from this hellish school, away from that evil bitca Felicia and her constant goadings and cruelty?
It's so unfair, so unfair! Why was all this happening to her? Her mind just started to break down and lose coherence. She felt the fear jab and stab its way throughout her brain, and the rest of her body. Round the corner, just get round the corner-
What the... they are the steps to the science block courtyard. The steps. Get to the steps! Get to them, get down them, maybe she could do it, get away, get help... her voice was too ragged, her lungs too raw with gasping for whatever breath they could manage... just a little more, just a little-
And then, when her foot hit the top step did she realise she hadn't judged her stride right. Arms flailed about, frantic to grip onto something. Anything. Fingers seemed to brush at her side as her right knee crumpled, and she felt the soft caress of gravity reach out and turn into a tightening grip. The ground, sky and buildings started to spin into one, as things went horribly slow motion. She saw the steps come up, an eternity in heartbeats, looming so much more worse than a nightmare could ever possibly manage.
Staring at the growing grey slabs, she saw herself in a hospital bed, bandaged up, unmoving, needing multiple machines to keep her breathing, keep her living. Her palms scraped and stung as they took first impact. Hot stinging registers as she spun and tumbled further, her momentum gaining. Joints smashing, bones cracking, and all that was really registering was the fact she had gotten distant from her family, not really writing to them, rarely calling them... she'd change that. She'd start mending fences after this, she would, she swore to herself – even with her kid brother – as another bone cracked in electric stabbing pain she-
She never heard that cracking noise. Like a wet, meaty branch snapping. After that, to the bottom of that flight of stairs, she no longer tried to save herself from the worst. She was beyond all that now. What would have shocked her was just how little blood seeped out of her when she finally lay at the bottom of the stairs. Or how calm the three large boys stood passively by her, wordlessly debating what to do next.
It didn't matter any more, not to Selina Isherwood. She was all very much beyond it all now.
She fought to see clearly. Maybe this was all a nightmare, and in a moment, she'd wake up, terrified, and it'll be all over? She fought back the tears, as much as she had fought back from from the tendrils and wide, gaping maw. No wonder the old admin block was abandoned... Of course there were the rumours, but they always are made up by the younger years, right?
Selina felt the streaming sweat dampen and slicken her mane of flowing brown hair. Her neck felt like it was being strangled by her collar, which was always too tight. The skirt of her uniform felt like a large rubber band wrapping round her legs. Was everything trying hard to stop her from getting away? She swallowed hard, her throat dry and raw from her frenzied attempts to go and get the air to fuel her aching, fear-taloned body. What got to her was they were still behind her, still chasing. And it was like they were just keeping back, just waiting for her to get too tired. A thought went back to the nature documentary she saw a couple of nights ago. Hot, stinging tears streaked away as she remembered how the wolves had chased and chased the deer, until it couldn't run any more. Then, when it was finally exhausted, they surrounded it.
Would that happen to her? Was that the plan? Wait until she couldn't run any more, then drag her back to be... eaten? Was that what it was doing? But why? Why her, why her, why her? She couldn't think of a reason. She couldn't think any more. All she wanted was to get away, to get to life her life from this hellish school, away from that evil bitca Felicia and her constant goadings and cruelty?
It's so unfair, so unfair! Why was all this happening to her? Her mind just started to break down and lose coherence. She felt the fear jab and stab its way throughout her brain, and the rest of her body. Round the corner, just get round the corner-
What the... they are the steps to the science block courtyard. The steps. Get to the steps! Get to them, get down them, maybe she could do it, get away, get help... her voice was too ragged, her lungs too raw with gasping for whatever breath they could manage... just a little more, just a little-
And then, when her foot hit the top step did she realise she hadn't judged her stride right. Arms flailed about, frantic to grip onto something. Anything. Fingers seemed to brush at her side as her right knee crumpled, and she felt the soft caress of gravity reach out and turn into a tightening grip. The ground, sky and buildings started to spin into one, as things went horribly slow motion. She saw the steps come up, an eternity in heartbeats, looming so much more worse than a nightmare could ever possibly manage.
Staring at the growing grey slabs, she saw herself in a hospital bed, bandaged up, unmoving, needing multiple machines to keep her breathing, keep her living. Her palms scraped and stung as they took first impact. Hot stinging registers as she spun and tumbled further, her momentum gaining. Joints smashing, bones cracking, and all that was really registering was the fact she had gotten distant from her family, not really writing to them, rarely calling them... she'd change that. She'd start mending fences after this, she would, she swore to herself – even with her kid brother – as another bone cracked in electric stabbing pain she-
She never heard that cracking noise. Like a wet, meaty branch snapping. After that, to the bottom of that flight of stairs, she no longer tried to save herself from the worst. She was beyond all that now. What would have shocked her was just how little blood seeped out of her when she finally lay at the bottom of the stairs. Or how calm the three large boys stood passively by her, wordlessly debating what to do next.
It didn't matter any more, not to Selina Isherwood. She was all very much beyond it all now.