When All Else Fails

*Charmeine* · 02-15-2015, 12:25 PM

She curled up tighter, the only thing she could see were the waved trying to drown her tiny frame. The water roared in her ears, and she was only snapped out of it when a damp nose pressed into her shoulder. Letting out a small whimper she uncurled her form and looked up at him, cyan eyes wet with tears. Had he asked her something? Her gray ears pulled back to her head, her gaze shifting towards the water again. "'ha' mean river 'ried 'o ea' me all up," she whispered softly. Even though she was almost a year old, her fear and speech impediment made her sound much younger than she was. She didn't know what drowning was, she had never heard of it before. Flickering her gaze back towards the stranger, she tried to smile softly at him. "Bu' 'hanks for offering 'he fish, bu'.... i' smelled like 'he wa'er. I remember seeing 'hem when 'he river 'ried to ea' me," Charmeine shook softly, stepping up and pushing her face into the man's leg. She was so scared, her body still trembling as she pressed her body closer and closer to him. She didn't care that she didn't even know his name, but she just needed to be held, to be told that it was going to be okay.

Charm pulled her head back and looked up at the man, her smile growing wider. "My name is Charmeine, wha's yours?" she asked. She didn't want to talk about the water anymore, she wanted to move on to a better subject, anything else really. Like butterflies, or why one of his ears was white and one was all orangy. Or if he had family. She missed hers... but she didn't mean to fall into the river! Really, it wasn't like she wanted it to try and eat her.

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