Changing Tides
May 19, 2021 20:05:01 GMT -5
Post by Sephora on May 19, 2021 20:05:01 GMT -5
Alleyah
The girl's had traveled as far East as they could go it seemed. Alleyah found herself standing atop a cliff, starring down at the waves crashing against the seemingly fiery rocks below. A desperate voice in her head told her to jump... asked her what it might feel like to fly. Surly, she could fly couldn't she? Besides, what did she have to lose? Her mother had died when she was just two months old, her father had been distant and useless. No Family. She had grown up feral, having answered to no one. No Guidance. There had been no one else their age, though sure, their "Uncles" had been fun until they became a woman that is... and their interests had shifted. No Friends. Their home had stopped feeling safe, so she and her sister had no choice but to leave. No Home. Her mind wandered to the recent cougar attack, the one that almost took her sister from her. She remembered the long week of tending to her as she fought off fever after fever. But she had made it... they had each-other. Could have lost her. No Hope. Alleyah shook her head to rid it of the toxic thoughts, something she had to do with increasing frequency these days. Things just felt so hopeless sometimes. She KNEW they weren't, knew that she didn't really believe the things her mind told her sometimes.
Still, she kicked a pebble off the side of the cliff, listening to how many times it smacked off of something, waiting to see how long it took to hit the bottom. A shiver ran down her spine as she counted... "5... 6... 7... 8..." she peered over the edge... "9... 10... 11..." silence. She decided she was maybe a little too close to the edge and stepped back, looking over her shoulder to see what may have caught her sister's eye. Surely something less... macabre. Not that a cliff was inherently morbid... but, her mind sure made it seem so. "Esmira, I don't think we are going to find anything here... I mean.. sure, those flowers are delicious... but who would want to live somewhere that makes them feel so... small?" She looked back out over the cliff, the height of it paired with the vast Ocean spread out before her made the world feel much bigger than she had believed it would be. "I think we should move on."
The gears in her head shifted suddenly and she found herself turning to look at the lush grasses covering the land they had just crossed to get to the cliffs. Maybe this place wasn't so bad... maybe she had just been facing the wrong direction. She scented the air, found that it was blowing towards them, so nothing could sneak up on them. Not like last time... with the cougar. She shifted on her feet and grinned at her sister. Maybe what they really needed was to blow off a little steam. "How's that hip feeling? Think you're up for a race? First one to that random tree over there gets to pick which direction we go next!" She pranced in place excitedly while she waited for her sister's response.
