Eyes Shut

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                   Dahlia's POV
Everyone was staring at the edge of the mountain where Camellia had jumped off of.
Huh. That's odd. Last time Larky was the first to go.
Apparently Sun's state of shock wore off first because he sprinted forward and jumped down right after her.
Which only caused Wort's pupils to shrink even more, and for Larky's cussing to increase.
"You're just going to let them jump to their dooms?" Wort finally stuttered out, his entire body shaking with the effort of speaking.
Fae simply sighed.
"They won't ever reach the ground. There's a portal down there." She looked tired and defeated.
"Whadya mean!? We can see a portal right there that doesn't require us to commit possible suicide!" Larky extended a finger in the direction of the glowing white oval at the center of the damp hole in the cliff.
"Because. That ones a fake. It's only purpose is to confuse those who come here that don't have authorized access. That's why someone like me was sent from the FRI. The only thing this it's capable of, beside confusion, is a slight loss of sight for about hour." Her voice was laced with seemingly years of defeat, being drug down.
Something I can relate to.
Out of nowhere Wort began to walk over to the edge of the mountain. He bent down on his knees and looked over the edge of the rocky figure at the forest that loomed below.
"She right. We need to jump." He stood up and turned to face the rest of us.
"Wort-," Larky began, inching towards the tan boy.
"We need to jump." He repeated.
Larky sighed. Then walked over to the edge to join him.
"Then lets do it together." Larky extended his hand as a smile appeared on his face.
Wort took it in his and grinned as well.
Then they jumped.
There was a moment of silence after hearing Wort's screams get cut off.
"Well," Fae turned to me. "After you." She had a genuine look of happiness on her face as she motioned towards the edge of the cliff.
I nodded.
I knew from the beginning that we were going to have to jump. I was just too shut down to act until I got addressed.
I walked over to the mountains edge, closed my eyes, and jumped.
The air had gotten knocked out of me as soon as I left the ground; willing me not to scream. The wind whipped through my blonde ponytail and blew my bangs out of my face. My clothes ruffling from the sudden breeze, My eyes still squeezed so tightly shut that I thought for sure they would fall out. Then I must've hit it.
I felt my body go numb, not in a cold way, nor hot, just flat out numb. As if I was momentarily being removed from the planet. Then I was spat out onto a sandy surface, spiraling to the ground. I had opened my eyes at this point.
As I crashed into the ground I saw the others standing above me, taller than before.
Oh right, I forgot about this as well. Man what was there that I did remember?
I began to rise up to their level, my body, clothes, and hair all rapidly growing larger by the second. I was finally back and up on my feet by time I reached my normal size once more.
Wort's legs had apparently went numb from the shock of the fall so he was leaning against Larky, which luckily was smaller so he wasn't crushing him. He was too stunned to talk either, so Larky also tried to calm him down. Sun and Camellia were sitting in the sand talking about god knows what, Sun seemingly somewhat upset about something.
I just want that creepy Fae lady to get her butt through the portal so she can take us back to the institute and I can get my tools.
I slumped down to the ground and leaned my back against a rock that was surrounded by several bushes.
A couple minutes passed and Fae still hadn't come through yet.
Screw this. I'm done waiting. Everyone else seems involved in their own thing, they'll hardly notice I'm gone.
I got up and silently headed down a slab stone path that lead to a clearing surrounded by tiny little shrubs and palm trees. I flashed a glance at a wooden board stuck in the ground that had large sprawled out black letters painted on it that read: Pardon Beach.
Now that name, I do remember.
I stuck to the path and went forward at a steady pace, looking over my shoulder occasionally to make sure I wasn't being followed. After about a ten minutes walk through the beach's scenery I came up on a tall three story, white block building with a flat roof and jet black door frames. There was a small little welcome Matt at the foot of the door when I went up to it.
It makes me feel sick that they could have something so innocent and friendly at a place that has nothing to do with kindness.
I didn't think that the people inside would react too kindly to me barging in, especially without Fae, so I walked around and looked for a window to enter through. After doing a full 360 of the place I spotted a window on the second floor that had been left hanging wide open, its sky blue drapes spilling out of the windowsill. There were no ladders around so I was going to have to use the next best thing. A tree. Thankfully there was one relatively close to the window I was trying to get to. I looked around one last time to make sure there was no one there. Then I started to climb. I felt the hard course texture of the rippled bark nag at my skin as I inched my way up.
Now I wish I had worn pants.
My shoes chipping away at pieces of the brown crusted tree trunk as I kept going. Eventually I made it to the top, which was a tad bit above the window I was aiming for. I steadily extended my arm down the strongest looking limb in the middle that was covered with lushes green leaves sprouting out all around it. It began to sway from the sudden movement, almost making me loose my balance. My grip tightened as I pushed forward and pulled my feet along with me.
Dang it, I don't want to go in head first.
I began to push my feet out in front of me, the branch swaying the entire time. Once I got in the right position I continued my slow inching toward the open sill. My feet hitting against its white trimmed edge being the first sign I had made it. From there I began to pull the rest of my body in, my legs, then stomach, until finally, my head. My feet had reached the solid ground as soon as I was halfway in. Then before I could scan the rest of the room I saw a women standing dead center in front of me. She had long straight dirty blonde hair draping over her shoulders and onto her white lab coat that covered up her lip-bomb pink shirt. She held a bat in her left hand and was tapping it against her jean shorts that didn't stretch too far down her pale legs.
But before I could ask her what the weapon was for, or explain why I was there she had clunked me over the head with it. It's hard wooden surface hitting my skull, sending hundreds of thousands of volts of pain through my head. I started to stumble forward, then backwards, left, right. Then the ground game rushing up to meet my face. An eternal void of blackness consuming me when I dared blink. I opened my eyes once more before blacking out. I was being hoisted up on her back and carried out the door. Then my eyes shut.

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