Some deaths are tragic, others silently wished for. His was...pretty unnecessary.
Yeah, Nathan Severin was not the most hardworking person out there and no, he certainly did not care much about what happened to himself.
He always went with the flow...
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I coughed, hacked my lungs out and wheezed for air to get all the glitter out of my face.
Only to inhale even more of the sparkling particles, painting my windpipe a beautiful rainbow colour My eyes were shut. I didn't need glimmering eyes as well.
"What the hell did you...just do, Rai?!"
"I fucked up."
"What? What do you mean 'you fucked up'? How did you fuck up?"
"I...I guess you need to see this for yourself..."
Hastily, I tried to free my eyes from the glitter. It took me a while and my hands looked like a unicorn had thrown up on them afterwards, but at least I could open my eyes again.
I was greeted with a rather...strange sight.
"What am I seeing, Rai?"
"The result of me fucking up."
I snorted.
Rai, the guardian spirit, an assistant of death herself, had turned into a fucking chibi version of herself.
Head too big for the rest of her body, round and angry eyes of large pools of purple, hair still reaching to her knees in an eye-catching ridiculous bubble gum pink - what I'd seen as an elementary-school girl before had shrunk to the size of my forearm.
She was lying on the grass-
Wait...Grass?
I took a quick look around me.
This definitely wasn't the space with the clouds anymore.
This was...all...natural.
I became aware of the rock underneath my bare feet and the patch of grass Rai was having an existential crisis on. We stood on a small, rocky plateau, pebbles digging into the soles of my bare feet. Wind blew through my hair, tugging at the strands gently, caressing my face.
Behind us, a sheer scarp belonging to a tree-covered mountain piercing the sheet of endless azure above.
In front, a steep cliff with the promise of falling unknown distances into the thick sea of clouds and mist below. The sky was a sterling blue, stretching out as far as my eyes could see, until the sky met the clouds in the horizon. What I imagined to be eagles screeched in the distance, small silhouettes against the heavens that was such a bright blue that it hurt my eyes.
I shivered.
The sun was on the other side of the mountain, leaving me and Rai in the shade. She didn't seem to mind but it was cold. Too cold for me, whose clothes had been swapped with an itchy shirt and shorts.
