Darlene is a female feline, with a cane, walking at night on the outskirts of town. Many dangerous things can occur, best case scenario is walking by a shifty group, worst case scenario is a federal violation of her body. She looks over her shoulder, watching for anything or anyone she should be worried about. If push comes to shove, the bottom of her cane is coated with a layer of metal that, when swung, could possibly knock someone out. Phone contacts of friends are kept on speed dial. Her ears and eyes are peeled for any possible threat as she gets her medically-required exercise. A walk at 6am is the best way to make sure her right leg does not rapidly deteriorate.
Despite her precautions, she misses the most cataclysmic space-time event that she will ever experience.
The mesosphere is alight with an unnatural white glow, its tail extending far beyond human sight, seeming ongoing. Its head is dazzling with the purest white, and within, the faintest speck of a small, tiny figure falling down to the earth.
Darlene only senses the meteor when it crashes, not with a noise usually associated with meteors, but with a dull thud and a faint, buzzing hum.
The source of the noise, the garden, a few blocks away, where the meteor hit. She picks up her pace to go see what had happened.
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Felix has never felt pain. Ey have only heard of it from stories about Earth, how this foreign feelings burns your skin like fire, how it makes your body convulse and shudder, how it can be dull or sharp or stinging.
Eir back is burning from impact on the hard soil.
Eir hands are convulsing as eir paws bend in wrong ways from eir awkward landing.
Eir breath is shuddering as all the wind is knocked out of em.
Eir insides throb with a dull pain, the atmospheric entry unkind to the organs ey just received.
Eir mouth is alight with sharp pain, having accidentally bitten eir tongue to the point of bleeding and still biting.
Eir eyes sting with debris and dust, everything too dark, so dark, Felix cant see anything and ey toss and turn their head from side to side trying to find one speck of light.
Their mind senses the disasters upon eir body caused by their banishment, but the banishment is overlooked, a new and foreign concept to this mortal mind, unimportant compared to the spinal damage and broken fingers and lack of oxygen and organ pain and teeth in eir tongue and practically blind eyes welling up with tears.
The last of eir holiness must still leave em. Eir glow, eir last connection to the realm now a scientifically anomalous distance away, eir supernatural abilities. Ey yell out in pain as a lustrous golden fluid seeps out from eir claws and the corners of eir eyes and eir mouth, drawing out the last of eir saving grace and, truly, tying em to this horrid mortal land.
The 'blood' seeps out completely, viscous and jelly-like, before it ignites and disappears in white sparks.
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Darlene stands over teh figure on the ground, eyes wide as she takes in the massive bruises covering eir body, the blood still gushing, although some has dried on the grass. "Oh- Oh gosh, uhm-" she crouches down to Felix's level then falls back onto the ground in surprise when ey spit up blood. "Sir, are you okay?" Her voice pitches higher in panic. Felix doesn't respond, just stares at her dully. Darlene stretches out a paw and touches Felix's chest, where a particularly large bruise covers most of eir torso. Felix cries out and Darlene retracts her paw, hissing a quick apology. "Okay- okay, let's uh, lets call the ambulance, okay, sir?" she stands up and pulls out her phone, dialing 911.
"Hello, 911, what's your emergency?"
"Hi, uhm, there's a-" she voice stops up. Her mind darkens.
"Hello?"
"Sorry, I was saying, a per-" she chokes on her words. Something is preventing her from describing the victim on the floor.
"I have to warn you that prank-calling emergency services is a crime. Are you in danger? Are you in a safe place to call?"
"No, I-I'm fine!" She's forced into silence again before she can try describing the emergency.
She lets the phone drop when she hears the hang-up tone.
Something about this person is blocking her mind, keeping em as her secret to bear.
Above, the moon glows same as ever, unknown to the events below.
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Finding Humanity: The Assorted Adventures of Two Supernatural Entities
FantasyFelix and Thunder, of Heaven and Hell respectively, have messed up. As a punishment, they are sent down to Earth to live among its lowly, flawed denizens. Overcoming the dark side of their supernatural origin, they learn what it means to be find hum...
