10-09-2015, 03:31 PM
It's not your time yet. The words rung in her ears as she awoke yet again in the world of white. The Nexus, was it? She heard that somewhere, hadn't she?
It didn't matter. She had died again, and the details were foggy at best. She remembered fighting, and Alain alongside her, and all of a sudden she felt exhausted. She hadn't the slightest idea what had happened to Gin and Lubbock - She could hope they were fine at best, which was a thought that made her feel sick. She had no idea how long she had been out, but she was positive that they couldn't still be where she had left them.
Mami felt a pit in her stomach. She felt beating against her temples from something inside her as the thought dawned on her: You're all alone again.
The girl's golden eyes drooped, not only from a seemingly impossible-to-explain tired feeling but from an odd feeling like sadness. It had a strange sort of weight to it, like her shoulders were being pushed down and her heart was being constricted - Even her Soul Gem was responding to it. Its glow had gone from a golden-yellow to a purplish colour, though the gem itself was still its usual colour. Still, that was a cause for alarm. If she let it get corrupted, it would...
...But for some reason, she didn't seem to care. It just didn't feel pressing enough to worry about. Where she would be going to get out of the Nexus seemed worth worrying about, though. Maybe she would go east - It seemed nice enough there last time, right...? When was the last time?
Right... The wandering. Walking beaten paths through fields all alone. That seemed like it might be fine. She was pretty sure east was the way she was facing, so she just started walking. Perhaps she did so a little carelessly, as she found herself stumbling every now and then.
For a while the Magical Girl felt like she was on autopilot, or like she was a puppet on strings, just being pulled along because something said she had to be pulled along. She wasn't moving, she simply wasn't resisting something else that was moving her. One more step. One more step.
Suddenly she broke into a run. For a moment she pushed enough to raise her eyes from the ground, where she saw the gate she had seen what felt like so long ago ahead of her. It was getting closer and closer, then it got farther, then closer, then a little farther... Or was she getting closer and farther? She couldn't tell.
She felt herself crumble to the ground in front of the gate and, as she made contact with the invisible ground, she regained her senses. Breathing felt like inviting open flames into her lungs, and her heart was racing faster than it ever had before. Her legs felt numb, her mouth was dried out and her throat felt like sandpaper. She looked over her shoulder and saw the Fountain in the distance, the one that never seemed to look the same. How far had she ran? How long had it taken? What was happening?
She felt the glow of her Soul Gem reaching farther and farther gradually. She could feel it strongly not only against her hair and shoulders, but it chilled through her whole body worse than the cold from when that place she met Lubbock and Gin and Alain and the dwarves and...
Mami rose to her feet and took a few weak steps forward through the gate and let her eyes fall shut as the sides of the gate came up beside her.
It didn't matter. She had died again, and the details were foggy at best. She remembered fighting, and Alain alongside her, and all of a sudden she felt exhausted. She hadn't the slightest idea what had happened to Gin and Lubbock - She could hope they were fine at best, which was a thought that made her feel sick. She had no idea how long she had been out, but she was positive that they couldn't still be where she had left them.
Mami felt a pit in her stomach. She felt beating against her temples from something inside her as the thought dawned on her: You're all alone again.
The girl's golden eyes drooped, not only from a seemingly impossible-to-explain tired feeling but from an odd feeling like sadness. It had a strange sort of weight to it, like her shoulders were being pushed down and her heart was being constricted - Even her Soul Gem was responding to it. Its glow had gone from a golden-yellow to a purplish colour, though the gem itself was still its usual colour. Still, that was a cause for alarm. If she let it get corrupted, it would...
...But for some reason, she didn't seem to care. It just didn't feel pressing enough to worry about. Where she would be going to get out of the Nexus seemed worth worrying about, though. Maybe she would go east - It seemed nice enough there last time, right...? When was the last time?
Right... The wandering. Walking beaten paths through fields all alone. That seemed like it might be fine. She was pretty sure east was the way she was facing, so she just started walking. Perhaps she did so a little carelessly, as she found herself stumbling every now and then.
For a while the Magical Girl felt like she was on autopilot, or like she was a puppet on strings, just being pulled along because something said she had to be pulled along. She wasn't moving, she simply wasn't resisting something else that was moving her. One more step. One more step.
Suddenly she broke into a run. For a moment she pushed enough to raise her eyes from the ground, where she saw the gate she had seen what felt like so long ago ahead of her. It was getting closer and closer, then it got farther, then closer, then a little farther... Or was she getting closer and farther? She couldn't tell.
She felt herself crumble to the ground in front of the gate and, as she made contact with the invisible ground, she regained her senses. Breathing felt like inviting open flames into her lungs, and her heart was racing faster than it ever had before. Her legs felt numb, her mouth was dried out and her throat felt like sandpaper. She looked over her shoulder and saw the Fountain in the distance, the one that never seemed to look the same. How far had she ran? How long had it taken? What was happening?
She felt the glow of her Soul Gem reaching farther and farther gradually. She could feel it strongly not only against her hair and shoulders, but it chilled through her whole body worse than the cold from when that place she met Lubbock and Gin and Alain and the dwarves and...
Mami rose to her feet and took a few weak steps forward through the gate and let her eyes fall shut as the sides of the gate came up beside her.
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