The Unraveling - It Burns
11-17-2024, 08:24 PM
Kaira looks to Lyra, her eyes still stinging with tears left unshed. She nuzzled her back, letting the girl nuzzle her away even if she didn't want to leave her siblings. Her back leg hung meekly off of the ground, the burn hurt so bad she couldn't even apply pressure to the earth. For once her spirits were dimmed, and the overly excited Kaira felt odd. The fear that churned inside her was suffocating any other emotion she had, she was like a deer in headlights. Everything felt further away, more drawn out. Her body shook and racked as the adrenaline coursed through her body, still in shock the poor girl was. And then she witnessed her brother get burned, and that's when the poor scream came. She rushed on three legs over to her brother, moving past Lyra. Her eyes widened at the sight, but she was able to stomach the site better than she knew her brother would. And then she is moving to his side, aiming to push him with her. Her eyes trained on a rock in the distance and her plan came to fruition. She looks at Lyra, pointing her head towards the rock. Right now Kaira was trying to keep her speaking to a minimum, she knew she would either sob if she did, or the pain that laced her voice would make it hard to understand. She wobbled her way over to the bolder, digging out a patch behind it as quickly as she could. Making enough room for her siblings and Lyra to hunker down. And then her eyes are turning towards the beast, she is angry that it hurt her siblings. Mad at the suffering it was causing. Sad at the lives lost. The emotions bubbled inside of her body until she wailed, wailed at nothing and everything in particular. She wanted Sparrow, she needed Recluse. She longed for her and Atoll's fort. She just missed home. She kept digging, they should already be out of the worm's sight. But the sickening thought that maybe it would still see them hung to her, digging and digging until she felt the cove was safe enough. She would usher whoever followed her in, pleading eyes staring them down to trust her. She needed them to trust her. And then she was on the other side of the boulder, pushing it, and once it began to move and she hoped everyone was inside the hole she dug out she jumped in. She left enough dirt to support the boulder so it would not crush any of them. And then she felt the dirt heading in the direction it felt the coldest and began to dig, up and out. Making a hole just big enough to get some fresh air inside. And then she would hunker down, trying her best to calm the breathing that she now realized was ragged. To calm the heart in her chest that was pounding away. She didn't know what to call this. She didn't know she was experiencing her first-ever panic attack. "Talk"
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