Set it off

Dance with the dead

Dance with the dead

A mess of beautiful contradictions make her whole she wears fire for skin but a storm lives in her soul.

Elizabeth

I woke up because my arm hurt.
When I opened my eyes they stung and soon adjusted to the gloomy light around the room. But as soon as they did I shot up. The whole room was engulfed in flames. All over the walls and floor. But I still felt pain I looked down to see my arm was partly on fire. I scrambled to put it out and started to feel myself panic.

"Anti?!" I yelled as loud as I could. I started to have a coughing fit due to all the fire and I felt myself get dizzy. I did my best to avoid the flames but I still got burned a few times as I headed for the hallway. The door was already open so I walked right through I couldn't see anyone and I was so scared they left me here to die. I put one foot on the first step and the stairs and it crumbled under me and my leg fell through. All of the embers of the wood burned me severely making me scream in pain. When I tried to pull my leg out it was stuck and the embers dug into my skin even more. This is it I'm gonna die here .

Anti

It's was around 3:00 I'm the afternoon when I woke up to Ellie asleep in my arms. I liked her here, she's safe and warm and at peace.
Because I didn't think I could get back to sleep I slipped out of Ellie's grip and went for a walk in the woods.

I was gone for hours and it was starting to get dark so I headed back.

The horror of what stood before me when I walked into view of the house gives me goose bumps. The house was engulfed in flames that shot out of the windows and made to roof cave in.
I saw Dark and DIE at the end of the yard and at first I was relieved. I jogged over to them and felt my heart drop when I didn't see Ellie. "W-where's Ellie?" I said with a worried voice. Darks face goes blank and he says "we thought she was with you.

I face the house, and over the roaring fire I can here her terrified and painful screams that to me sounded like nails on a chock board. I was there in a flash in such a hurry I didn't bother to dodge the flames around me. Up at the top of the stairs was her limp unconscious body, but I could hear a heart beat.
Her leg was stuck in a broken step and with further inspection her thigh had been pierced with a shard of wood that had broken. I did my best to pull her away from the stairs without causing her to much pain but doubt my efforts made a difference.