Raindrops Turn To Waterfalls

The terror that fills the girl’s emerald gaze is mirrored back at her in the boy’s sky-blue eyes and Terra almost allows the feeling to drown her. She turns to bolt toward safety, the higher ground promising them sanctuary from the rapidly raising waters, when a voice forces her to stop. Green eyes shoot to the boy, fear and doubt warring behind her gaze as her sides heave and panic claws at the back of her mind. There are a million reasons she could give on why not to follow a stranger but the still, small voice in the back of mind whispers two words to her; ‘trust him’.

Terra locks eyes with him, the resolve to live blazing in her bright graze and she gives him an almost imperceptible nod before the boy is racing away with the earthen girl right behind him. Their paws match the frantic rhythm of her heart as the water continues to raise at an alarming rate. She follows in the boy’s pawsteps, realizing that he knows this land like the back of his paw. He leads her straight and true, the pair never slipping or sliding for a moment. They join the deer on the hill as the water drowns out the valley and Terra shakily folds her haunches, sitting down with heavy thud and a shaky sigh.

Adrenaline that had coursed hotly through her veins mere moments ago, flees and, in its place, leaves trembling limbs. The deer are paid no mind by her, as exhaustion sweeps over her and she sinks the rest of the way to the ground while she rests her head on her front leg. The rain has washed most of the mud from her tawny fur, forcing it to stick to her sides and show the beginning of protruding ribs. Eyes turn to the strange boy to watch him with a weary guardedness.


WC: 316
Total WC: 1685 /1500

"Terra Qilaq"