*The feeling of flying was none like I've ever felt before. I felt free and it was nice to have a breeze filtering through my tight halter and around my legs. I could hear the gentle flapping of my wings as I sped along. I was flying fast and freely. Almost freely. I looked back only to have my face planted into a gate.
I looked above the forest, above the tree canopies and saw what looked like a ceiling. It was rounded and tall. It seemed to have stretched for miles. But I realized that I was trapped in a dome. I was locked in like a zoo animal. I hovered in the air for a few seconds before I heard the taunting cackle.
"You can't hide from this, darling." That rasp dug itself deep into my throat. I was unable to breathe.
"Tell me..." I gasped. "Tell me who you are."
There was only the clench around my throat and a new tightness in my veins.
I knew this invisible would never reveal itself. I was trapped in some other world, under a dome, transformed into a myth. I was beginning to feel a new pain in my back. This time it wasn't the wings. But something else was slicing my skin open, and this time I felt the blood trickling down my side.
I held in my scream knowing that it'd only make this worse. It was like I was being held from the waist and choked from the neck. I heard droplets pitter and patter upon the canopy. Blood? Hopes? Dreams? The tightness started to subside, and finally I could breathe again. Even if it were a heavy gasp.
A cool current glided by me. The pain was washed away. Behind me, I saw no cut. But I was so sure that I was bleeding this time. I began to explore the areas around me. The dense forests were flooded with trees and packed dirt. There was no wind blowing whatsoever.
I noticed small insects lining the trunks of a few trees. Well, they sure looked like insects at a distance. As I crept closer, I observed small arms and legs sprouted from tiny bodies. Straight wings emerged slowly. I couldn't believe my eyes. I couldn't believe their eyes, when I was told I was talking to pixies.
I went on my way in this forest. Trees became thinner, dirt became sand. As I walked, the whole setting seemed to change. Soon, I was on a beach. A beach that looked very similar to my home. A beach that mimicked the one I walked on when I first noticed the light. But across this water, was something different.
Everything on the beach was so familiar. Although it was just a mere reflection. The sand felt the same as it wiggled through my toes as the heels sunk in deep. The houses were much like the one in which I resided. I even saw the house that reflected my own. The water even had the same warmth.
I looked up from the lukewarm water that the slapped my feet with each wave. I stood in the mirrored spot of where I first found the light. And across the water was the exact opposite. A cloud of darkness hovered deep above the crystal clear ocean. It never moved, but sat there casting curiosity onto me.
"Remember this, Clara Murphy?" The voice.
I clenched my fists and kept the tears back, as I did remember and homesickness was dragging me down now. The air became heavy. I felt my legs beginning to buckle once more.
The sand was cold as ice. The water never reached to the shore. I tried to fly, but my wings were paralyzed and again, I was immobile, like the sand was glue. I refused to shut my eyes. I kept them open. Hoping. Listening. I swallowed my fear and rose to my feet, although it was a great challenge.
The ground was now stable enough for my stilettos to click against the surface. My feet never ached. I came to see that the water was turning to fire. The sun turned into the moon. The sand remained cold and dense. The fire let off cold winds, rather than heat. The houses disappeared.
I sharp pain twisted and turned in my stomach. I could hear the Cackle vaguely in the back of my mind, in the midst of my ears and this time, I could see it. The cackle that haunted me for hours on end was becoming clearer. Right in front of me, the air seemed to move in new ways. I could finally see him.*
Wey hey. Part Five! Yay? Lemme know what you think :*
~Lizzy~
