July 09, 2019, 05:47 PM
(This post was last modified: July 09, 2019, 05:49 PM by Ibis (Ghost).)
She had been hopeful for a moment, but that all broke apart so fast — splintering and dissolving, swept away by a gust of inconsolable emotion as Cam tried to explain; his sobs grew to be a gale and all of a sudden Ibis was sweeping close to him, down in the dirt, holding him close before -- before it could -- process --- asleep?
Ibis had never lost anyone; she'd never fathomed the permanence of it. It struck her through the heart, but there wasn't an ache - there was a numbing, a frigidity, an absence. Shock, sickening, appalling, empty shock. All that Ibis could do was hold Cam close, let him cry
-- and in the back of her mind wonder,
why her?
—never going to wake up—Lily?
And I don't know why —No, no, not Lily.
Ibis had never lost anyone; she'd never fathomed the permanence of it. It struck her through the heart, but there wasn't an ache - there was a numbing, a frigidity, an absence. Shock, sickening, appalling, empty shock. All that Ibis could do was hold Cam close, let him cry
-- and in the back of her mind wonder,
why her?
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isn't it good to be lost in the wood? - by Cam - July 07, 2019, 03:31 PM
RE: isn't it good to be lost in the wood? - by Ibis (Ghost) - July 08, 2019, 12:32 PM
RE: isn't it good to be lost in the wood? - by Okeanos - July 08, 2019, 01:13 PM
RE: isn't it good to be lost in the wood? - by Cam - July 09, 2019, 03:32 PM
RE: isn't it good to be lost in the wood? - by Ibis (Ghost) - July 09, 2019, 05:05 PM
RE: isn't it good to be lost in the wood? - by Okeanos - July 09, 2019, 05:32 PM
RE: isn't it good to be lost in the wood? - by Cam - July 09, 2019, 05:40 PM
RE: isn't it good to be lost in the wood? - by Ibis (Ghost) - July 09, 2019, 05:47 PM
RE: isn't it good to be lost in the wood? - by Okeanos - July 10, 2019, 05:37 PM
RE: isn't it good to be lost in the wood? - by Cam - July 10, 2019, 10:17 PM
RE: isn't it good to be lost in the wood? - by Ibis (Ghost) - July 10, 2019, 11:36 PM
RE: isn't it good to be lost in the wood? - by Okeanos - July 11, 2019, 09:22 AM
RE: isn't it good to be lost in the wood? - by Cam - July 24, 2019, 05:57 PM
RE: isn't it good to be lost in the wood? - by Ibis (Ghost) - September 01, 2019, 05:40 PM