I ran.
Nothing else mattered but getting away to someplace else, someplace… safe. Everything around me was eclipsed, dawn barely breaking over the horizon as I ran through the meadow.
Watered leaves, adorned with the droplets of dew, soaked my silk dress as I made my way across. Sticks and leaves crunched beneath my bare feet with every step I took. Keeping me company in the otherwise deathly quiet of the night.
There was nothing left to do but run. Nothing else mattered.
“DARA!”
A loud scream took me by surprise and as I turned around to see who called, I fell, landing with a thud on the ground beneath me. Every sense momentarily dampened out before returning to me in a swarm as I attempted to pick myself up.
Pressure built in my chest. The overbearing anxiety of having been followed making it progressively harder and harder to breathe, but I couldn’t focus on that right now. Wearily I began picking up the pace until I was running once again.
No one would stop me from getting out. This time there were no mistakes.
Oo, this makes me so intrigued! I really want to know what happened beforehand, and what's going to happen next! If you ever place this in the context of a longer story, let me know! I wanna read it.
I love your writing so much triplet T_T I feel like the ending sentence really sets the tone that achieving escape is crucial now, and there can't be a mishap to prevent it this time. ;-; It's so good? I feel like it could easily be its own thing or spiral into a larger story and I love that duality honestly
This actually works as a bit of flash fiction rather than a WIP. A singular moment of time, making one question what the situation is.
this is really powerful Arcy. super short and concise but so colourful at the same time, in a sense.
this is really good!! puts me right into the action, and personally, i like that it ends open-ended, cause it leaves me to think of the how i got here, the "mistakes" ive made before and a whole lot more, amazing work <33
Is this a drabble or an opening scene? 👀