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itwas_perfect) wrote2012-12-29 11:15 am
itwas_perfect) wrote2012-12-29 11:15 am
Debut (Lily and Eduardo)
I had the craziest dream last night...
On the sidewalk, she sat among a heavy plume of fabric. A streak of bright, sapphire blue and mournful black. For a long time, she sat there in the shadows, a distant street lamp shining off rivulets of red slipping down her pale wrist. She watched transfixed as drop travel down the back of her hand, staining the lace at her wrists. A bright crimson dot, bleeding out in a spiderweb of fainter pink.
The meat of her palms was torn, bloody and caked with grit. Nina stared down at them, feeling as though they belonged to someone else.
On that empty street corner, she heard a flutter, felt the soft brush of something against her cheek, a tear sliding from the corner of her eye and dripping off the point of her chin.
"I had the craziest dream last night," she whispered to herself, the fragile crack of her voice seeming to echo through the darkness.
It was nearly ten minutes -- ten minutes of staring at her bleeding palms -- before she realized she had no memory of how she'd gotten there. No memory of this street corner. One fractured life overlapping another in her mind.
On the sidewalk, a swan... a girl... Nina drew in a sob of breath, cowering there in the shadows as she watched the shape of a person draw near her.
"Who's there?"
On the sidewalk, she sat among a heavy plume of fabric. A streak of bright, sapphire blue and mournful black. For a long time, she sat there in the shadows, a distant street lamp shining off rivulets of red slipping down her pale wrist. She watched transfixed as drop travel down the back of her hand, staining the lace at her wrists. A bright crimson dot, bleeding out in a spiderweb of fainter pink.
The meat of her palms was torn, bloody and caked with grit. Nina stared down at them, feeling as though they belonged to someone else.
On that empty street corner, she heard a flutter, felt the soft brush of something against her cheek, a tear sliding from the corner of her eye and dripping off the point of her chin.
"I had the craziest dream last night," she whispered to herself, the fragile crack of her voice seeming to echo through the darkness.
It was nearly ten minutes -- ten minutes of staring at her bleeding palms -- before she realized she had no memory of how she'd gotten there. No memory of this street corner. One fractured life overlapping another in her mind.
On the sidewalk, a swan... a girl... Nina drew in a sob of breath, cowering there in the shadows as she watched the shape of a person draw near her.
"Who's there?"
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For a long moment, she didn't comprehend what that meant. She remembered heat and trees-- so much green, surrounding her on all sides. She remembered a small, windowless bedroom that she slept in alone. She remembered the darkness of a cave, music pounding off the walls, and Lily's mouth close to her ear. The two of them laughing.
She remembered blood on her hands, but in the memory, it wasn't her own.
"How did we... I was--" she looked down at her heavy skirts with a frown, "What am I wearing?"
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"London, remember?" she asked. "You saw your poster."
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It was all fragments. Some of them sharper than others. Those, she drew back from, frightened. On the streets of London, that day-- today... she remembered pain. Fear and red. A crack widening, the high whine of glass straining as it reached the point of breaking.
"I think so?"
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She paused as the elevator doors slid open, then said, "It's better here."
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Or happy anywhere at all.
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She'd tried. Someone had always found her.
"We still can't leave, but it's an improvement," she said.
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"You have your own apartment?"
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"Whenever someone arrives, there's always a package waiting for them at the train station. It has money, keys, a phone."
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A package waiting for her? That couldn't possibly sound any creepier.
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