Fear swept not only though the trees like a wave of water, but swept though her heart and her mind like a dagger. Her eyes glanced up into the night skies, no stars, no moon, just a thick cloud of smoke that choked the life out of everything, even her. On the dark clouds that out darkened the night, was a glow of death, of rage and hate, of pain that shot through her heart, through her soul that cried in fear.
Her home was being attacked by something she alone could not destroy; She could hear the cries, the screams of the trees, as they burned alive. Along with the dieing breath of the tree nymphs, were the calls of the birds. Watching their world go up in smoke and flames, their homes, their families they couldn’t save.
As a flame on the winds, she ran home, to find it being eaten by fire, by a raging flame that licked slowly up the tree’s, slowly burning, slowly killing. She felt every ounce of pain, Her ears heard every scream, every cry, and every dieing breath of her loved ones. Tears stung at her cold winter kissed face as she moved from tree to tree to late to be saved. Screaming in fear, in pain, in death, all the sounds echoed in her mind as she grabbed her hair that was the same color of the killer that invaded her home, that was still killing everything she ever knew. Her chest heaved hard as she drew smoke felled air into her lungs. A sound, so new, so fresh and wild came from some where, she didn’t know, she didn’t care, She didn’t even realize it came from her, from her own lips, a scream that shook the world under her feet. Nor did she see the world come up to greet her body as she fell.
Seconds turned to days, Minutes turned to years of pain that swept though her life. Erasing everything she once new, everything that was solid was now being taken away, and there was nothing, nothing she could do to stop it. So slowly did she fall, Her fingers let lose her hair that was whipping now in the breath of the raging fire that longed for the taste of her skin.
She saw herself, through the melted snow that had already tasted the bitter sting of the flame. Her eyes where lost, large and confused. Her lips where parted. Her cheeks so pale the fire’s light danced endlessly off her flesh as the flame itself reached to touch her, to kiss her, To take her life, Feast on her soft tender flesh.
She new not where she was anymore, she new nothing but confusion. What was love, what was fear, what was want or need, what is real, what is not?
The cries died away so slowly before she felt what pain was once again. Her fingers griped the snow around the puddle that danced softly with each tear that rolled form her face. She didn’t hear the crack of the tree, nor the sound of the fire hissing in the wind as the burning tree that she had lived for so long in, came crashing down next to her, in a final defeat. As the large burning wood dropped into the snow, The cinders and the embers jumped onto its new prey, The young small girl that was froze with lose and fear, The pain of the burning embers flashed though her body as they kissed her face, her arms, her side, burning though her cloths though her skin.
She couldn’t cry out, she lost all thought that she even had a voice in tell the pain brought the hate that was now boiling in her heart, in her soul, Her very spirit was screaming in ferry that is was pushed up though her throat and pasted her lips. Then the world came back to her, the pain, the sounds of death, and the roar of rage that burned though the land. She jumped up, sweat rolled down her brow over her now flushing cheeks. No longer did the fire dance in her eyes, but her own inner fire blazed with hate, blazed with death of its own. From her toes came this cry, from her legs came her scream, and from her heart came her tears as she hollered.
Green danced with red and black. Green washed over the land like water. Hugging the flames without pain, without fear of death. But the need to take the life it seeked. Her eyes closed tightly as she felt every flame, within her own body. Tears of water mixed with tears of blood before her body once again dropped to the frozen earth.
Like a wave the energy reached out over all the fire, taking the fires’ last breath before not even the smoke could blind out the rising of the sun.
She opened her eyes to gaze into the morning’s sweet gentle kiss. So cool was the touch of the wind, but nothing took the sent of death from the air, the sent of fire, of cooked wood, burned creatures. Nothing to take away the thought, she was now alone, so alone, So helpless, Everything she ever held close to her was gone, she had nothing left anymore, nothing. No family, no friends, she had watched as they died. Not doing a thing, letting them die because she froze. It was all her fault. Everything will always be her fault from this day forward. She new that, she would only bring pain, and soon death to everything she will ever hold dear.
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