Duck Lake War[m] water rises; still feels like I can't stop crying

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Reverie blinked awake into darkness, into a hazy feeling she'd thought she had left behind so many months ago. Her head ached; her mouth felt dry; she felt — she felt —
She started to retch with a strangled cry of pain. All at once her throat was on fire and her stomach was twisting, and she knew with a devastating certainty what she had done. And then she remembered it; in bits and pieces, between gasping breaths and broken whines, she remembered what she had done. She recalled lurching in sudden fear, the inexplicable wash of cold dread down her spine.
That sinking feeling so like watching the sun set for the last time.
And for a wild moment it had driven her mad. Reduced to nothing but the air ripping through her lungs, the cold feeling of it, herself wrought cavernous and echoing with the ragged sounds. Hollowed out, raw and aching, blind as she sought refuge in that most final contingency. She'd scarcely realized what she was doing until the berries had already stained her paws, her lips. She'd only had a moment to regret it — to think of @Blossom, of @Tauris, of @Boone.
Now —
Claws of flame twisted somewhere deep inside of her, and she screamed.