She learned it the hard way. Some people were never meant to exist. Not even the Doctor wants her as a companion. But then the Master saves her from certain death and discovers that this human girl might be of more use to him than he expected.
Ranki...
A/N: So, I did find to write, here and there. I had a fun week, aside from that. I learned how to tailor teddy bears! xD
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I clutched the egg gently between my hands, glaring at the symbols below my feet, still halfway hidden under sand and dust.
"Yeah, I'm ready," I mumbled, closing my eyes.
There was no new protest from the Doctor and a moment later it wouldn't have caused anything anyway, the process not stoppable, as I found out.
At first I didn't feel much, only focusing on the warm pulsating sensation between my fingers, felt the texture of the tiny scales and the thin veins. After some time the egg seemed to get warmer, the heartbeat faster. Or was it my own? Both of us synchronising? Somehow my hearing seemed to sharpen, my awareness spreading. The crackling of electricity got louder, the sound of the cool breeze sharper.
I dared to open my eyes, finding the purple glow stronger than ever before and now slowly spreading to my fingers and even slightly into my very veins. Would this have happened had I kept it? Would it have consumed me?
I didn't feel tired, quite the opposite. An energy coursed through me that I wasn't used to at all and when I glanced around me, I saw what I had known. The light-arches over the machines danced wildly and in zig-zagging patterns, wound themselves around everything they could reach and that was capable of conducting electricity. Including myself.
The sight was fascinating and scary all at once. My heartbeat got stronger, pulsating in rhythm with that of the tiny dragon. I looked up at the Master, who watched intensely, satisfied with the result.
For the tiniest fragment of time everything appeared to be working out perfectly, pieces falling into a pattern, setting themselves together to a picture of conclusion and achievement.
A craw rang through the night.
I glanced up, awaiting to spot the glitching crow again. Instead, my eyes widened in horror as I saw black smoke billowing like a sandstorm from the ground, far behind the mountains, rising up to quickly swallow the moon and the clouds and the fake stars. A ravine of darkness. There wasn't enough time to recover from the shock, not enough to shout out a warning, before everything around me got swallowed and buried in the smoke.
I pressed my eyes shut, held the egg close to my chest and waited for whatever might appear to shred me into tiny pieces of madness as the mass of black engulfed me and everything that was and wasn't real. And still I couldn't perceive any of it with my senses, felt as if I had gone blind and deaf and numb all at once.
There was no sound, no light through my closed lids, no more wind on my skin. Even my heart stopped beating, as did the dragon's. No warmth between my fingers, no pulsating in my chest.
There was... nothing at all.
Hey!
My eyes crept open, finding almost pure darkness. The faint glow of the egg in my hands was the only light in here, faintly illuminating the fog, swirling, dancing, engulfing eternity.
