A collection of random content from yours truly centered around the fantastic Books of Beginning trilogy by John Stephens. (The Emerald Atlas, The Fire Chronicle, and The Black Reckoning). This series is amazing, underrated, and has my heart.
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Background: Begins right after the end of part one and continues through Kate's waking up and so forth.
Content: More Angst, Pain, and Darkness.
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Part Two: Through The Looking Glass
Dizzy half dreams of a dark paradise filled with roses that dripped with blood and stars that scorched across a black sky, of a boy with burning green eyes spinning her round and round, of a mirror cracking and opening up to let her fall through danced behind her closed eyelids even as her other senses became stimulated. She twitched and then tossed around some, she inhaled the smell of something sterile and cool, and she could feel the weight of a blanket on her legs.
Finally, Kate forced her eyes to open though her eyelids still felt heavy and her body a bit sore. She squinted and whimpered as bright light hit her, shoving her head into her arms to avoid it.
"Kate," she heard a worried voice from her left, "are you awake?"
Kate pulled her head back out of her arms and propped it up on one hand so she could look at her mother properly. She mumbled, "yeah. Where am I?"
"The hospital. We were here most of yesterday and all through the night and now it's morning and oh Kate, you had us all worried sick," Clare exclaimed.
It all rushed back to her then, being at the beach with Rafe, Michael and Emma coming to find her, attempting to stand only for the rock to slide and send her plummeting into the water. Her family must have rushed her to the hospital... no wonder they were worried.
"Richard! Michael! Emma!" Clare was calling into the hallway, "she's awake!"
The rest of Kate's family rushed into her hospital room and crowded around her bed. Kate's weary eyes took in their concerned faces as her hands knotted up the blankets. She found it within herself to ask, "how bad was it?"
"We were so worried, Kate," Richard answered, "you fell and hit your head on the rocks and fortunately they only knocked you out. Then Emma dashed down and pulled you onto the beach before you could drown, but she saw you had a real nasty gash on your side, so she made Michael run and get us. From there we rushed you here and they stitched you up quick as possible before you lost too much blood... as long as the would doesn't become infected, you should be alright, but you gave us quite the scare."
"The doctors say you'll probably be in here a few more days while they make sure you heal and stay free of infections," Michael added helpfully, reciting facts to make himself and his family feel better.
