[Dream, Flashback] kazamidori

[PepsiYuuka]

It was in this state she found herself surrounded. She hadn't been paying enough attention to see the humans, individual faces clouded in the blurry shadows of dreams, approach, still staring down at the ground beneath her feet. Wordlessly she hung there, suspended in midair, surrounded now by the shadows cast from long wilted flowers. Her heart was still- unsure? Slowly her mind reached for words to describe her feelings.

But her eyes still snapped to the small group the moment the closest man cleared his throat. Though no other part of her body moved, he still faltered on his feet, backing up a step at the sudden glance. She didn't know what she had done- no one had done anything like this before when she looked at them, so why? Why were they now? A pang of pain rang through her head as she heard a hundred thousand questions in her own voice. Why? Why did she need to know why in th-

"Wake up! We asked you a damn question!"

His accusatory tone pulled her back into the world around her. She blinked, her eyes lifting themselves from the ground once again. Anyone with a brain could see she really didn't care much about the ones in front of her, but she looked as a courtesy. Her mind was on other things. More important things. Regardless, he spoke again.

"You've been doing nothing but standing there for two months, now. Isn't it your job to make things flower all over this country? Yet you ignore-"

"...I don't want to."

Her quiet voice managed. There was an unhappy murmuring from the crowd. To be honest she wasn't sure what she was expecting- was she expecting something at all? Maybe she had just... done it. It was all very sudden, to her. Being here. Thinking. Expecting anything.

"What do you mean you don-"

"Insolent. I don't live to serve you. You're just humans- you don't deserve to control nature."

It was a booming tone of voice she wasn't expecting from herself. Was this really what she was thinking? She supposed... it was. It was strange to be saying it outright, though. How... different. Unexpected. For some reason, she decided right then and there that she liked this feeling, whatever it was. Power? No, not that, not yet. Just being something more than mindless. Her lips curled up in a bit of an idle smile as several of the humans took their steps back, shuffling. She didn't wait long enough for a retort before continuing.

"I'm bored. I don't want to listen to you anymore. If you have a problem with that, you can-"

There wasn't a warning. The first shot took her left arm clean off.