— a sensation!

Cobalt · August 12, 2022, 01:58 PM

In the night, his temperature rose. Not enough to be alarming, but enough for his mind to pluck from his illness.

A forest, thick and flush with life. There was singing and colors splashed upon the trees. He heard laughter of voices old and new. The smell of milk and honey. Things that once jarred him now felt like a sign of home. In the forest was a clearing and almost like fairies there was dancing and songs. Fireflies all around. Most of them were strangers, but some of them he knew.

@Kukutux did not dance, but showed the youth of the group a song to sing along. Her voice the loudest of them all in this deafening dream.

@Lótë offered colors to the dancers and sometimes stepped in beat beside them. Her son trailing after her all the while, the same size he had last seen the boy.

But they did not see him. They laughed, they lived, they loved. No matter how much he weaved through the crowd, no one seemed to see him. A stark figure in the sea of pale coats and lush flora. Why couldn't they see him? Why did Kukutux not speak wise words to him? Why did Lótë not offer him the tender moments they often shared?

He opened his mouth.

There was nothing.

He woke up suddenly, lurching to his feet in a stumbled manner. His neck even more sore after all the tending to and the smell of medicine clung to him heavily.

Water.

He wanted water. Needed water.

Except he only made it about three feet from the den he had been placed in, opened his mouth.

In the dark, the sound of a splatter. All the contents of his stomach, all upon the earth. His throat hurt worse for it all and his gut was empty once more.