What once was lost

Her little body shook, quivering, vibrating in his arms. It seemed endless...or was it her that was endless? The pain...no, well. At least it wasn't freezing anymore. She would have moved impossibly closer, would have tried to snuggle into his warmth if she could just...brave the movement. But the pain was too much, the pounding in her head was too great. But with each lick, with each pass of his tongue over her face and neck and wherever it hurt it felt...a little better. Slowly she'd peel her eye open again, red rimmed and distant, but she tried to make out the voice of this strange thing. Whatever it was, whoever it was. He was soft, gentle...caring, and he took the pain away. She'd whine again as he assured her she'd be just fine, and for the first time in her endless pain, endless existance she truley believed she may be. Whatever "fine" was, it had to be better than this. He'd continue to lick her, to warm her, to fill her body with a sort of strength she never felt before, but then again...all she had ever felt was this pain. When he asked her her name, she was quiet, silent, almost deathly so as she closed her eye again. Her name? Did she have one? Now that the pounding had lessened and the pain had fallen away just a bit she could finally think about it. What was she if not this pounding pain? "I don't know..." She whispered in her broken, raspy voice, a round of coughs shaking through her body as she trembled in his arms. A deep and overwhelming need to sleep fell over her, but his voice, his constant licks kept her awake. Her ears would twitch before pulling back, her first real movement since the dawn of time. His voice spoke to her again, questioning her again. Parents? Her eyes would move beneath her eyelids, searching the blackness but finding nothing but that, blackness. No memory aside from the pounding pain and the constant wash of cold and him lived there. "I don't know..." She repeated, this time her raspy voice was tight as fresh tears grew in her burning eyes, slipping from sealed eyelids and down her sodden cheek. There was nothing she knew but this, and the more she thought about it, the more it terrified her.

"Burn Baby Burn"