Falling [completed]

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    She let a tear slide down her face. She couldn't lose. She called her center and pulled all her pain to the core. She released it onto Yorick with a breath and watched him flinch. She sent another wave of emotional pain she had built up over the years. Pain from not having her parent's support, not having any friends, and the terror of never seeing the ones she had now. Yorick fell to his knees and held his head.

    "Get it out of me!"

    Remmy watched the tears streak down his face, watching what she felt on the inside every day. She kicked him with all her might. His head snapped back and his body collided with the hard wood floor. She listened for his heart beat and found none. It was over.

    She looked down and her skin was still rotting away, she could see her muscle in her stomach. She could feel air touch her teeth through the hole in her cheek. She would rot away if she didn't stop this. She didn't have any of the ingredients to make a healing powder. She had to think fast, but terror was stealing her thoughts. If only she had her book. "That's it!" The book had told her, if she ate the heart of a ceptual, it's power on her would stop.

    Remmy didn't really want to cut Yorick open, or eat his heart, but she didn't want to slowly decompose either. She held her stomach with one hand for fear of her insides giving way and walked over to the fireplace. She grabbed a sword that was hung over it as a pair and walked back to where Yorick's body lay.   

    Not having the strength to break his ribs, she cut deep across his stomach. Blood came to the surface slowly, showing signs of his heart no longer keeping pressure. She pulled out his intestines, hacking away at them to make room for her to pull his lungs out. Remmy had blood up to her elbows, and the smell of his intestines made her want to vomit. Her hypersensitive sense of smell making it harder to keep the contents of her stomach down.

She reached in elbow deep and caught hold of his heart. With a swift yank, she pulled it free of his chest cavity. She cut away at the aorta and all other arteries. The less she had to eat the better.

    Remmy took the first bite and chewed. It was tough and she swallowed it mostly intact. She just wanted to get this over with and the taste out of her mouth. She began to take bigger bites and chewed just enough to get it down her throat without choking. She could only safely use one side of her mouth and that made the torture last longer.

    She was on her last bite and looked down at her stomach. It wasn't getting any worse. The veins began to fade back into her skin and her bruising didn't look as angry anymore. But her gut was not healing. Her cheek was not closing up and she could tell her back wasn't getting better either.

    Remmy walked to the door and began to stumble, her strength giving up. She had to find someone, anyone to help her. She leaned against the wall and walked a few more feet, smearing the white with the remnants of battle. She couldn't do it. The fight had spent her. She slid down leaving a trail of blood from her back. She let the pain envelope her and take her back to the recess of her mind.

    She was in that same place, at the top of the hill by the lake. She could hear the leaves rustle in the breeze and the birds chirping. She was back in Aldric's arms right where she had left him. Her eyes were closed waiting on his lips to touch hers. She felt nothing and peeked her eyes open. Aldric was smiling at her. "I will always be with you, but you need to wake up now."

    Remmy blinked in confusion and she was pulled away again. She woke up to white. Everything was white. White walls, white floors and white bedsheets all greeted her. She jerked and a gentle soft hand met her shoulder.

    "My dear you need to be still. You're injuries have not healed fully."

    Remmy looked over to see Aurora. Mack was standing close beside her with his eyes full of concern. Remmy looked to the other side of her hospital bed and saw Lilly's freckled face holding the same emotion. Her face contorted with confusion.

    "Where is Aldric?"

    Lilly's face fell flat. "No one has seen him since the night you left. He has not been to open Walton's and I have stopped by his training spot. There is no sign of him."

    Remmy's heart stumbled. "How long have I been out?"

    "Oh girl, you've been out of it fer four days. I looked fer Aldric, We all did. He's gone. Aurora pulled records of thuh exchange too an' accordin' ta them, he is still in this realm. He left uh note fer ya on our door. Didn't have thuh heart ta open it."

    Mack handed the white envelope  to Remmy. She looked at the front and recognized Aldric's hand writing. A tear slipped down her cheek. She turned it over and began to open it, pulling out a sheet of paper. She read it and her vision blurred. She couldn't see the words on the note anymore so she closed her eyes and let the tears fall. Her chest dampened from the downpour.