It wasn’t like Alyx to descend into her thoughts. That was something boring intellects did. She wasn’t unintelligent, per se, but she liked to live in the moment rather than endlessly turning thoughts over in the bleak landscape of her brain. Life was more colourful that way.
But since her mother’s death, she found herself in her head more often than she liked. While she continued to snuffle along a trail, relishing the warmth that began working its way into her muscles, she stopped paying attention to her surroundings and started on the guilty thought of her father alone at the Caldera. No, not alone … he had his new kids, and Towhee, and her crybaby son. Sniff, sniff, think, think … that was all she did, and hardly registered either activity. Disorganized thoughts played before her eyes like a movie, veiling over anything actually happening around her.
No wonder she somehow didn’t notice Phaedra right in front of her, despite the near-luminous quality of her pale coat or the smell of her. Or the rabbit, for that matter. Her nose was about as useful as her eyes right now, and she might as well have been blind for all the good those did her. Her ears did lift up at the spluttered voice, but it was too late to change her trajectory.
But since her mother’s death, she found herself in her head more often than she liked. While she continued to snuffle along a trail, relishing the warmth that began working its way into her muscles, she stopped paying attention to her surroundings and started on the guilty thought of her father alone at the Caldera. No, not alone … he had his new kids, and Towhee, and her crybaby son. Sniff, sniff, think, think … that was all she did, and hardly registered either activity. Disorganized thoughts played before her eyes like a movie, veiling over anything actually happening around her.
No wonder she somehow didn’t notice Phaedra right in front of her, despite the near-luminous quality of her pale coat or the smell of her. Or the rabbit, for that matter. Her nose was about as useful as her eyes right now, and she might as well have been blind for all the good those did her. Her ears did lift up at the spluttered voice, but it was too late to change her trajectory.
Wuhthuh—she groused when she slammed her lowered head directly into Phaedra’s side, jarring her neck and tripping over her own feet at the same time and stumbling inelegantly into the other girl. It was pretty slow, all things considered, but with the added weight of her own unawareness behind it. Somewhere behind Phaedra, a flurry of activity announced the rabbit’s fortunate flight.
Yo what the heck?she asked, sitting bolt upright and giving her sore noggin a shake. As if it was Phaedra’s fault and not her own for paying no attention to anything!
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When we were younger, we used to sit on the grass - by Alyx - October 23, 2021, 01:58 AM
RE: When we were younger, we used to sat on the grass - by Phaedra - October 23, 2021, 08:20 PM
RE: When we were younger, we used to sit on the grass - by Alyx - November 08, 2021, 12:01 PM