Orchis [WIP/Production postponed]

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Monday, August 12th.

"BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP!" Mellea slaps her alarm clock, she's late for class, the first day of class. Mellea looks at her left arm. White, black, white, black, white, black, white, black, the color pulsates rhythmically. Innocent, guilty, innocent, guilty, innocent, guilty, you could swear she was a shapeshifter, this child of the earth on Mellea's arm. She jolts up, blinded by headrush it all flashes back to her like it usually does. The last thing Mellea remembers is a woman's voice... "SAVE HER, PLEASE SAVE HER! OH GODS... oh gods..." the woman's face flashes briefly in her mind, although she can't quite make it out, and then it all fades to a black blacker than black and Mellea awakened in a place just as deep as that color... And then THAT voice sounded to her. "You were DEAD without me." Ygrdr pipes up, "Having your voice stolen and all..." Mellea makes a face like she'd just met death. "OH~ you didn't know~? Why do you think you haven't spoken for months? I'll give you a hint girly: a vocieur'gr stole it from you and killed you, but spared your mother." Mellea, weighted down, sinks to the floor heavy as lead curling into a ball once her face meets the glowering of the cold floor. In 7 months no one has spoken to her, no one has acknowledged her mouthing words, and at first she thought she had gone deaf. Come to think of it, it feels as though this is the first time she's woken up in a long while. "I've been poking around the contents and essence of your soul's heart, that's how I know, and although I am sorry..." Ygrdr begins "I'll still laugh at you, smile at you as I take in your pity." Ygrdr whispers harshly. Mellea resists the urge to vomit as every word Ygrdr tells her makes her stomach swirl in terror. Mellea takes her anxiety medication, lays down, and becoming a piece of driftwood on the ocean, drifts back into sleep. Ygrdr can be heard faintly chuckling to theirself as Mellea's cares fade away into sleep. Mellea isn't going to university today.