Awakening - Following Fate
My entire focus on the damp earth under my flat palms, as I lay on my front and shallowly breath through the mist of my own broken eyesight.
The log is ripped from around me, so sudden, like the blink of an eye that I can’t react. I grip the fallen debris below my fingers in haste to cling on, as I’m trundled out like a floppy rag onto the ground into a disheveled heap and discarded. The huge black silhouette of my worst nightmare, and best dream, towers over me and snarls in satisfaction that he found his prey once more. I lift my frail hand in an attempt to muster what power I have left and it dies on me completely, ebbing away like a flickering flame that’s been caught in an airless room.